Nation - Blackmoor Land of a Thousand Witches - Part 1

Blackmoor Land of a Thousand Witches

Player’s Background

In Blackmoor the sun hides during the winter but stays out during the summer making the nights bright as day. Half the year is filled with snow and frost but the people endure and celebrate the days of light.

These celebrations feature Matar, the Mother who flew to oerth from the moon Celene when the land was ruled by the Ancient Things. Matar is said to have followed in search of Mikko the Father who also flew from Celene but in the darkness in search of some great and powerful element to aid Celene who was wounded and dying. Matar brought with her many followers and came to rest first in the terrible land of Black Ice near to the Plateau of Leng, a vast and horror filled area which is higher than the clouds (Leng the brother of Mikko, lost in his exploration of the Plateau which bears his name). Here she built the City of the Gods and fought the Ancient Things till she had wrested the land of Blackmoor from their grasp and rescued Mikko from their dungeons beneath what is now the ruined city of Old Blackmoor.

Matar rules the Summer and is worshipped in the light, while Mikko walks during the dark and still seeks that which will aid the dying moon Celene. 

The Birth of Waymoinen the Smith

While dwelling in the City of the Gods Matar and Mikko rejoiced and Matar  bore a son, Waymoinen. He was not born as a mortal would be but instead stepped from the EGG fully formed and hungry for knowledge. Matar taught him of nature, the life and death of mortal things, how they grew, how to heal, and how to bend nature to the will of the Gods. From Mikko he learned the ways of war, the many ways of fighting and the weapons of mortals and those of the Gods. From Leng he learned how to learn and the magic brought down from Celene, not the magic in the oerth, for as yet the Gods did not possess such magic, only that which animated the City of the Gods. From Ykko the Oldest he learned the making and shaping of things and at this Waymoinen excelled. 

Such is known to the people of Blackmoor.