New faith flourishes once again in the cradle of civilization.
The "First Event" will be announced next turn or the turn after.
>>6134641 ZerimaelMany nights among the swaying grass, your first cult interprets your sign. In their days, they go about in the markets, telling merchants and travelers about the Voidstar's coming, and the legend travels down the trade routes into Cilicia and Galatia, where many bumpkins and nobles alike are keen to deepen their occult understanding.
Cultists in new covens worship you and pray, gazing with their own looking glasses into the stars, watching and wondering. With the tenth star's absence, they understand that they are being asked to sacrifice. To divide.
At the end of the ten days, the bridge in Istanbul finally begins construction. It is not completed by the blackening of the sun.
The eclipse comes, and your initial cult is left without any meaningful sacrifice. Or are they?
Roll 1d10 for this turn's Faith change: 1-9: -10, 10: +50
and choose one (1) Action, which could possibly further affect Faith:
>Command your initial cult to smash their most prized possessions as sacrifice during the Eclipse - their looking glasses. >Command your initial cult to all partake in sacrificing the ten eldest cultists among them to Zerimael.>Exile and excommunicate your initial cult. Show them the meaning of separation, the significance of absence. (Optional: maim them horribly, petrify them, lead them to wander in the wilderness, disappear them, swallow them into a void of some sort, or something else grand.)>Turn instead to a coven of witches and apothecaries in Cilicia, who sacrifice you many children.>Show your favor to a Roman legion in Galatia who worship you, who sacrifice you many prisoners of war.>Bless your influential and wealthy worshippers in the royal family of Istanbul, who can sacrifice wealth and life en masse. (Minor influence only on an Odd roll, Major influence on an Even roll.)>Write in>>6134644 Ace
The Sunbaked Clay rides high on the waves, and takes Arabia Nabatae by surprise. In broad daylight, a fleet of pirates overrun city by city until the man foretold in the gems is found. A coward of a crew is put to the sword, the most lily-livered among them get put to the rope. Before taking the rival captain's cyclopean head, Driftwood proclaims his status as the most feared pirate to ever sail the seas.
With Driftwood's great campaign to slay his nemesis over, many pirates settle in Arabia, and spread the message of the Sol Magni who brought them favor and fortune.
Some of your new followers who are unaccustomed to your commandments are breaking them consistently without knowing, specifically by sullying your name with darkness. You thought you were pretty clear about that one, but then again, your messengers were drunkards and criminals.
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