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{{Quote|While travelling to the lands of distant Cathay, I first passed through the strange land of Ind. What wonders I’ve seen! Fabulous temples, great white beasts with trunks and tusks, and that walk on four legs, birds of every colour, and the cuisine... It takes my breath away just thinking about it. Anyway, while in Ind, my company had the misfortune of being attacked by an odd race of creatures. I believe they are somehow related to our own Beastmen, as they combined the features and form of both Man and beast. But these vile creatures were different. They had the heads of great cats - larger versions than the ones stalking the night streets of our grand Empire - mounted on a naked Human body. Stranger still, while we fought for our lives, our native guides just dropped prostrate to the ground, ignoring our cries for help, unmindful of the beasts as they tore through us and our guides alike. Luckily, through my own skill with the sword and the pistol-fire from my companions, we beat back the rude host, sending them scurrying into the woods. After, I flogged our guides, remonstrating them for their cowardice, as any master should. Weeks later, I learned that these creatures are something akin to holy spirits to the natives, and that if we injured any, we should be on the lookout for an attack. Thankfully, I ended their service when we returned to town. It’s odd though, I’ve been experiencing stomach distress... probably caused by this infernal fare they pass for food.|Leopold Riogillo, Merchant Prince of [[Magritta]].{{fn|1a}}}} |
{{Quote|While travelling to the lands of distant Cathay, I first passed through the strange land of Ind. What wonders I’ve seen! Fabulous temples, great white beasts with trunks and tusks, and that walk on four legs, birds of every colour, and the cuisine... It takes my breath away just thinking about it. Anyway, while in Ind, my company had the misfortune of being attacked by an odd race of creatures. I believe they are somehow related to our own Beastmen, as they combined the features and form of both Man and beast. But these vile creatures were different. They had the heads of great cats - larger versions than the ones stalking the night streets of our grand Empire - mounted on a naked Human body. Stranger still, while we fought for our lives, our native guides just dropped prostrate to the ground, ignoring our cries for help, unmindful of the beasts as they tore through us and our guides alike. Luckily, through my own skill with the sword and the pistol-fire from my companions, we beat back the rude host, sending them scurrying into the woods. After, I flogged our guides, remonstrating them for their cowardice, as any master should. Weeks later, I learned that these creatures are something akin to holy spirits to the natives, and that if we injured any, we should be on the lookout for an attack. Thankfully, I ended their service when we returned to town. It’s odd though, I’ve been experiencing stomach distress... probably caused by this infernal fare they pass for food.|Leopold Riogillo, Merchant Prince of [[Magritta]].{{fn|1a}}}} |
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Revision as of 22:36, 31 July 2020
"While travelling to the lands of distant Cathay, I first passed through the strange land of Ind. What wonders I’ve seen! Fabulous temples, great white beasts with trunks and tusks, and that walk on four legs, birds of every colour, and the cuisine... It takes my breath away just thinking about it. Anyway, while in Ind, my company had the misfortune of being attacked by an odd race of creatures. I believe they are somehow related to our own Beastmen, as they combined the features and form of both Man and beast. But these vile creatures were different. They had the heads of great cats - larger versions than the ones stalking the night streets of our grand Empire - mounted on a naked Human body. Stranger still, while we fought for our lives, our native guides just dropped prostrate to the ground, ignoring our cries for help, unmindful of the beasts as they tore through us and our guides alike. Luckily, through my own skill with the sword and the pistol-fire from my companions, we beat back the rude host, sending them scurrying into the woods. After, I flogged our guides, remonstrating them for their cowardice, as any master should. Weeks later, I learned that these creatures are something akin to holy spirits to the natives, and that if we injured any, we should be on the lookout for an attack. Thankfully, I ended their service when we returned to town. It’s odd though, I’ve been experiencing stomach distress... probably caused by this infernal fare they pass for food."
A Beastmen with the head of a Tiger
Eastern Beastmen are a distinct breed of Beastmen which dwell within the lands of the Far East, where Beastmen appear to live in the central and southwestern regions of Ind. Travellers from the east bring stories of man-shaped beasts as equally removed from humanity as the creatures of the Drakwald Forest. Spice merchants from Ind have spun tales of creatures with heads of the hunting cats they call tigers, which dwell in the dense jungles at the interior of their land. At least one vicious tribe of tiger-headed Beastmen has taken the cave of the Eye of the Tiger as their lair.[2a]. The people of Ind regard these as noble but fickle beings, as likely to fight off attackers of an Indish village as raze it to the ground. These creatures are rarely seen, and their motives are unfathomable, yet cautionary tales are told up and down the Kingdoms of Ind, and offerings of meat and rice to keep them at bay are made at roadside shrines wherever the path passes through, or near the shadowy forest, in the hope of appeasing them.[1a]