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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6166514" data-attributes="member: 55680">Good to see a bit more cultural variety in our non-dwarven demi-humans do like. Also note that our orcs have just a touch in Inca in them (as well as bit of Korea and other stuff as well).Am getting hammered at work at the moment since I quit my job last week (one month notice) so they seem to have decided to dump as much work on me as possible before I go. Is annoying but at least I'm making overtime money. Next month I'll have my own (very small) business and everyone knows that the owners of mom & pop business have lots and lots of free time so I'll certainly be able to put a lot of time into the Shrouded Lands <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Or maybe now. In any case, I'm here and I'll keep on chugging away at it slow and steady...The Statue of the AzruHex 30.14Here, not far from the tombs that escort the White Road out of the City of Shuttered Windows is a small statue of the demigod of disease, mutilation and torment known as the Azru. Its gender and even species are difficult to determine since all images of it include numerous deformities and disfiguring illnesses. Despite being marked by weeping sores, missing body parts and worse priests of the Azru are welcome nearly everywhere in these lands except in the City itself where jealous priests of Alberon hold sway. These kind souls pray that children might be spared the ravages of illness, perform amputations with a bare minimum of agony, and preach about the imperfection of the body and the true pure love of the Azru. In some cases these priests, who hold that it is blasphemy to cure illness, take an illness or injury of a worthy sufferer onto themselves and bear it with a satisfied smile. They do, however, sometimes come in conflict with civil authorities for protesting quarantines and the like and one of their more controversial practices is to bless children with the yellow flux while claiming that those who suffer from it are forever after immune to the ravages of the far more dangerous flux of Jarmond (see 30.16 above).As far as this particular statue of Jarmond it is under constant guard by order of the Doge himself in order to prevent local beggars from drinking its tears and thereby contracting a remarkably hideous (but not particularly painful) skin ailment.Hooks:-Where are some of the itinerant priests of the Azru at this moment? One would think that they would be fairly rare?-Is there any other kindness that can be bestowed by a demi-god of disease, mutilation and torment?-Which beggars are trying particularly hard to drink the tears of the statue of the Azru? Do they have enough money to pay adventurers to gather some disease-causing tears?-Does anyone else want those tears?Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to create an evil god of rainbows and cute puppies or something equally nice. The Azru is basically what you'd get if Nurgle were good-aligned (the Azru is far and away the nicest god worshiped in the Shrouded Lands). I think a similar invention of an evil god with a "good" portfolio would be interesting as well.</blockquote>

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