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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8263811" data-attributes="member: 6802378">Does G'Henna come back? If this is real, then it needs a total reboot. Yagno Petrovna is in my opinion the most hateful dark lord, the first I would want to dissapear ultimately. I feel there is a abuse of the tropes of G'Henna. I would rather to imagine G'Henna mash-up, like a satire against the "oil-snake salesman" and an allegory of the drug-addictions, with some pieces of eco-terrorism. The cult of Zhakata started as a secret lodge of lotus-eaters, in the beggining, for the "courtship phase" provided food and medicines to the lower classes. After they promoted a rebellion against the "corrupt authority" and then with the political power the things changed. Obesity was a sign of the lack of solidarity and moral corruption by the previous higher classes, and the thinnes the new beauty canon and sign of self-control by means of fast.  Farming is totally forbidden (to stop the damage in the Nature by the men) , but usually nobody dies by hunger or malnutrition because the cult of Zhakata distribute for free a soup by the fruits of a special sacred mistletoe (with a special flow as the lotus). Its taste is not bad but G'Henna gastronomy is one of the most boring in the multiverse.Hunting is totally banned, but the forests from G'Henna have got a bizarre curse "you are you eat". This means if you eat a rabbit you can acquire rabbit traits (then to keep your original human shape you can to eat humanoids, but troll's flesh also works). The cult of Zhakata teachs those animals are the reincarnation of sinner's souls. There are also trollhounds and gray trolls (survivals of "meat farms" by sentient undeads using their regenation as "renewable" food source). The followers of Zakhata who only feed by the fruits of the mistletoe enjoy a beneficial secondary effect, something like a mosquito repellent, and men-eater undeads aren't attracted to these "lotus-eaters". The cult of Zakhata doesn't use divine magic to heal, but a different effect, a special sacrament, and the believer is "ascended", becomes a new being who doesn't need the same level of food. (He becomes a creature as the yellow-musk zombie, but plant(touched), not undead, teorically keeping the freewill). G'Henna is famous by their healing herbs, but the harvest in the nature is "sacrilegy against Nature", but the true reason is because when these "ascended", humanoids with plant traits are very old or sick, go to the forest to "hug a tree", to become a creature like a dryad, a fae spirit linked to a plant, then the forest is practically like a cementery where the trees are the equivalent of coffins, and intruders aren't welcome. These plants are the origin of the "sacred mistletoe" that gives those fruits and lotus as food source.Here our dark-lord Yagno Petrovna doesn't suffer a faith-crisis in the direct way, but his religion hasn't enough a coherent dogma, and in G'Henna a lot of self-proclaim Zakhata prophets or incarnations, with divine magic (or psionic, or incarnum). One of them is the leader of a sect of dark-feys teaching Zakhata was a titan killed and erasured by the gods, but keeping his existence as a vestige. He can come back if enough "divine sparks" are gathered together.</blockquote>

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