RP DACTHU: The Jade Serpent Moon
Moon: The Jade Serpent Moon
This Moon Orbits Vlivlyn
A combination of crystal seas, clouds, and jungle islands make this moon appear the color of Jade, and the spiraling of the atmosphere give it the wriggling mass appearance of the serpent. Here is the seed that will destroy the universe, and see it that it is beautiful. The Moon itself is made up of Island chains and in a salted Sea. Patches of heavy dense clouds cause rain to fall nearly every day at some point somewhere, but many tropical micro-climates appear due to the sharp peaks of volcanic mountains.
Under the waters is teeming with life, and land. Small creatures feed on the abundance of growth, larger life consumes them, and still monstrous life feeds upon all. Ancient ruins of past civilizations are under there. Aeons of Wardens before Ubtao's last failing. Deeper still in the deepest depths a portal to the far out. The distant space where no Star exists. Where the Jade Pillar stands... and Decthu Yogden is chained to it.
People: The Kiakanaka (The Sea People).
While these people were once human, their interbreeding with the Monsters of the Island and Sea have turned them into a fractured people, many small tribes who are all clearly Cannibals. All Kiakanaka are born looking almost entirely human, and until their early 30's this remains the case. That being said, all Kiakanaka are immortal to time instead of aging simple becoming more bestial as they age, though they still require sustenance and are not immune to the rare diseases. Often families will carry totems of their ancestor (often bones/teeth after eaten). They also often get tattoos of their "spiritual animals" which they will begin to develop features of after their prime years. Sharpening their teeth is sometimes done artificially, but often it's natural.
They deeply believe in freedom and anarchy reigns, any attempts to dominate another by force is considered personal blasphemy often leads to very swift murder and a good meal. It is at this point, that once can note that all these people would be considered quite mad in any normally organized society. Life is cheap since it is pointless after all, and thus a fear of death is often non extent, leading to both many heroic acts and many casual deaths. Their hedonistic life style also leads to an abundance of children to be born each year, which they jealously protect (and the taboo of killing of a child or pregnant mother is perhaps the only custom that might be considered a hard law).
They rejoice in their madness and this gives them all a very powerful reserve of magic. This magic manifests itself by their totems abilities (breath under water, poisonous skin, small bouts of flight, extreme stealth and dexterity, powerful strength in their bodies). They have mastered nature no in the civilization but as individually becoming strong as they are insane. Their honest shamen and priests of Dacthu often lead the villages in entire rituals of willing sacrifice and given them powers to tap into the voids of madness.