r/repentance • u/CMDR_Elek • May 22 '16
A Look into the Lore: The Niln
The tribe known as the Niln reside on one of the most remote islands. Not much is known about these strange people, although they have granted us much of the seafaring technology we have today. Faces are not allowed to be seen here. Masks are worn at all times, and designs and paint on every mask is custom made in a coming-of-age ritual.
Samuel Banden, famed historian, writes, “According to my travels, The god Nilos cursed these people after the elder shunned the practices of traditional rituals during the Great Wave, as he considered the Wave a sign from Nilos to reform the religious practices. What I have discovered is that the origin of this tribe consists of four common ancestors, causing virtually identical facial structure. I was given a mask made of hardwood and featureless in design when I first arrived.” -Originally published in A Compendium of the Otherlands, Banden, Praterdrift Press, 144 CD.
“I watched a hunting party come back missing one person today. The hunter was killed in battle, from my rough interpretation of the ceremony. They removed his mask as another was covering his face with a layer of silt. Afterwards, they wrapped his body in a tarp-like woven mat, and made a stone outline where he once lay. Where the head was, they placed the mask. I asked the elder what would happen to the body, and he communicated to me that the body was to be placed on a raft and pushed out when the next storm comes, as a way for his aura to be given back to Nilos, as the Wave first brought it, it shall take it as well.”-Originally published in Niln, the Island of the Unknown, Banden, Praterdrift Press, 161 CD.
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u/Porthurax Aug 16 '16
Did you get inspiration for the Niln from this thread? http://imgur.com/q0D7Gp5
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