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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 7587601" data-attributes="member: 92305">Ideas from CONAN and the Shadows of the SinnNergalNergal, a Shemitish god of War, Famine, Pestilence, and Plague, prowls the night, lord of the city of Yadar, in the afterworld land of Aralu, where the dead go after leaving the earth.  This god had only secret worshippers and no known temples before the coming of Khalar Zym, who brought the God of Death out into the open.Nergal has been secretly worshipped in Sa’leen for centuries.  The cult’s presence became more well known at the Keepers, those who maintain the vast, catacombed tombs beneath the city.  Their presence was tolerated by the dominate Mitran faith until that faith was wiped out over the past forty years during Sa’leen’s rule by Khalar Zym.  The city’s royalty and money merchants are interred in these tombs under the city.  Before the deity of Nergal was discovered as their patron god, the secretive cult members were simply referred to as the Muffled Priests by the citizens of Sa’leen.Yadar is the city in the afterworld where Nergal lives among the dead.  It is said that each person who lives on the earth is represented by a black candle burning in one of the temples of Yadar.  When the flame of the candle is snuffed out, the person dies.  A flame that dies when the entire wick on the candle is consumed has lived his entire allotted life and dies of natural causes.  Different individuals have different sized candles.The priesthood guardsmen wear plain, grey and brown tabards over their leather armor to symbolize man’s eternal passing and decay back into the earth.  The tabards are tied symbolically with a simple rough rope.The guardsmen in Sa’leen favor the bill.  There are no bowmen, but a small number of specialized soldiers are trained instead with the javelin and short sword.  Neither type of troop wears a helm.These priesthood guardsmen are called The Mastiga.In Sa’leen, these guardsmen are 1st level Soldiers.  The more experienced Belthaarian soldiers are either acting as the home guard in Belthaar, where most of the army is laying siege to Khor Kalba.The guard captain is a 3rd level Soldier, man in his late 20’s named Lamuran.  The only difference in his appearance is the blood-red sash that he wears around his waist instead of the plain rope worn by the other guardsmen.  In this order, the captain is properly called a “Red Sash” for his rank.  This captain of troops has the title, “Red Sash Lamuran.”Lamuran wears leather armor under his grey-brown tabard.  He is trained with the arming sword.  And, he uses a targe.  No helmet.</blockquote>

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