Luz Roxa’s Roux of Revelation
by Wm Jay Carter III, 6/12/15
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| a ranai bulb-lantern bearer |
Culture: Ranai
Condition: Hot, Wet
Color: Violet
Keyword: Paradigm
The ranai exemplar beckons you to sit beside her at the fire. She reaches into her pack and produces a small flat tin. Opening it, she waves it under her nostrils; you see a brown mashed paste and catch a waft of the nutty scent. Satisfied with the smell, she scoops the tin’s contents into the pot on the fire and quickly adds several violet petals, stirring vigorously.
Invoking the name of her patron, the ranai whispers a few words and there is a poof! as a cloud of smoke rises from the pot. Scooping out a spoonful of the nutty roux—now a deep purple—she offers it to you. The moment it touches your tongue, the world lights up with a network of violet lines—the veins of the leaves on the trees, the veins pulsing through the ranai exemplar, and, you notice with a giddy feeling, the veins in your own body.
Invoking the name of her patron, the ranai whispers a few words and there is a poof! as a cloud of smoke rises from the pot. Scooping out a spoonful of the nutty roux—now a deep purple—she offers it to you. The moment it touches your tongue, the world lights up with a network of violet lines—the veins of the leaves on the trees, the veins pulsing through the ranai exemplar, and, you notice with a giddy feeling, the veins in your own body.
The Stranger known among the ranai as Luz Roxa is a being of incredible beauty. Her body is nearly transparent, with the exception of her blood, which throbs with a powerful violet light. Merely catching a glimpse of her leaves the viewer with a lingering feeling of true joy and contentment. But not all saw this as a good thing.
Luz Roxa’s rival is the demon Mágoa, whose followers choose blindness over the chance of beholding any form of beauty. “In the darkness,” says the oath of Mágoa, “I vow to see the truth.” One exemplar of Mágoa, a ranai named Talita, was a curious one to say the least. In the final ceremony designed to test even the faithful, Mágoa invited Luz Roxa to stand before his exemplars and tempt them to look on her beauty. Talita failed, and gladly fell under Luz Roxa’s influence.
Luz Roxa’s rival is the demon Mágoa, whose followers choose blindness over the chance of beholding any form of beauty. “In the darkness,” says the oath of Mágoa, “I vow to see the truth.” One exemplar of Mágoa, a ranai named Talita, was a curious one to say the least. In the final ceremony designed to test even the faithful, Mágoa invited Luz Roxa to stand before his exemplars and tempt them to look on her beauty. Talita failed, and gladly fell under Luz Roxa’s influence.
While technically the victim of Luz Roxa’s geas to spread her beauty to all of Athanasia, Talita blissfully accepts her new role and invites all she meets to partake of the special concoction Luz Roxa taught her to make: Luz Roxa’s Roux of Revelation. As an intriguing side effect of witnessing Luz Roxa’s beauty in all things, the paste also permits the consumer to see as per the Divine Life (Divination) power as a standard action without spending a spell point, and even if the consumer doesn’t have the Life sphere.
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