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                           [GUILD LEADERS]
-               Arbiter of Blood: Kanthari
+               Arbiter of Blood: Etienne
-                    Secretaries: Ahkan, Katalina, and Rowynn
+                    Secretaries: Arutha, Caelbrook, and Caelya
             Council Affiliation: Khandava
-              Guild Professions: Deathknight, Defiler, and Wytch
+"This is your first blood sown into the roots. We all start on the same path - with the same kill -
+but now your purpose diverges."
-It was in the year 667 that a great meeting was held between the leaders of the
+For when a cultist swears their oaths, they sow but a drop of their blood into the roots of a
-Wytchen and the Limorasi. After nearly two centuries of hostilities, an accord
+sapling, binding themselves to the Black Grove. As the years pass and the roots churn, a tree rises
-was met - the perpetuation of shamanism and the preservation of the demonic arts
+from the earth. It becomes old-growth, ancient; a symbol unto the Khandava: our sword and shield.
-set above all else. In this, the Tzolkin forged a path which their forefathers
+But when their time comes to pass and the glory of their youth has long faded, the Dryad splits the
-would never have dared tread, renouncing the spirits that had once set them to
+bark to devour the heartwood, and burns its dead flesh to ash.
-their brethren's throats in a ritual of death and battle of fearless will. No
-more would these shamans be but pawns in the Netherworld's endless war.
-When machinations of this ritual were heard, the Dryad and the Hanged Man rose
+A successor rises. They plant a seed in the ash of a dead era and water it in new blood. Another
-to lend fuel to the fire of a mortal rebellion, sending whisperings to the ears
+tree shall grow in its stead. Life begins anew.
-of those who would listen that they could offer purpose and glory - the glory of
-demonic councils and cities awoken to the world through the guidance of blood.
-In those quiet tendrils of whisper, the Tzolkin arose to direct that life and
-will its true potential into a sole purpose: the perpetuation and power of their
-homeland.
-Lending reverence to the Dryad and the Hanged Man, the Tzolkin exist to direct
+All of Khandava feels the pull of the Leechwood tree. It is the pulsing of roots beneath the soil,
-demonic spirits, holding their wards with honor while unleashing them upon
+and the stale wind whispering amidst infested trees. It is the spore, the sap, and the heartwood of
-Aetherius with malintent. To cross a shaman of the Tzolkin is to suffer the
+the Council. When a Khandavan child is born, they are blessed by the blight's offerings. When a
-wrath of these spirits, with practitioners bringing curses, shamanism, and the
+Khandavan falls, we seed them into the roots to begin anew. Death is nothing but a force that begets
-very magicks of the earth through runelore, to swiftly and decisively direct the
+life. And when that cycle is broken, it is a power that rests within our hands. Blood follows blood.
-flow of blood - the flow of life.
+Within the gloaming bowers of the Black Grove, we pay homage to the Leechwood, whose boughs we sow
+our blood. Seeded anew each time an oath is taken, a cultist's tree is razed to ashes when their
+time has passed. This is what binds the Grove to the Council. This is what binds us, one to another.
+That is what the heartwood whispers to the Tzolkin beneath the low autumn moon, amidst the dead and
+dying leaves. This is the sound of the roots, churning beneath the blackened soil. "You are us,"
+they seethe, burrowing down into the Pit.
+We are the Tzolkin. The Tzolkin are Khandava.
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