Abominations of the Black Sun #1: The Throng of Bestials

A Bestial of the Palace of the Black Sun, City of the Golden Gates.

You should see them run in packs through the streets, trails of spittle and urine behind them, manes matted with blood and incense.

Relationships

Rhadamanthes, a Muvian.

No one exists in a vacuum, fictional or not; even the most convinced loner has people he or she communes with in some way (consider the hermit in Maine, who, although he lived utterly alone for 27 years, still depended on locals whom he could burgle to survive).

Chariot is a game themed on the lives of others. Player characters in Chariot have in common the revelation that the catastrophe is coming, and that they're going to die in it, and not before. If you know that whatever the consequences of your actions, you will live to see the final end, wouldn't that change the way you faced the world?

But whatever you do, it can't happen outside of the context of people. Who will escape? Who will you save? Who will you drag screaming into the ocean depths with you?

How to say...

All these weird names. And none of them (ok, one of them) made up by me. Some of these I haven't mentioned yet.

Tlavatli: tla-VAT-lee (or cla-VAT-lee if that's easier. Or if you know Welsh, try saying that first consonant combo as "ll")

Lemurian: lem-YOU-ree-an

Rmoahal: MRO-a-HAL

Leagh: LAY-ach (hard "ch" like "loch")

Lha: LAH

Manu: MAN-oo

Muvian: MOO-vee-an

Daitya: DIE-ch-yah

Ruta: ROO-tah

Helio Arcanaphus: HEEL-ee-oh ar-KAN-a-fuss

Tlavatlis, the Second People

Svaathë, a Tlavatli.

Among the children of the Rmoahals,  some travelled north, and there they settled, and there they learned selfishness. There they learned ambition.

How little I've added

This book I nearly broke my neck as a kid trying to get hold of.

In writing the setting material for Chariot, I keep finding myself amazed by how little I have to add.

Mechanics, laid out

So my last mechanical runthrough was, I confess, a bit rambly. Here's a cleaner version. We're assuming you know standard gamespeak terms like GM, NPC, scene, and so on. There's a summary at the end.

Lemurians

The Lemurian from my dad's book. The one that started all of this.

Lemuria is old, older than thought, older than memory, and its original inhabitants are barely recognisable as people at all, or so say the treatises and gazetteers of the Atlanteans.