Chronicles of Nations - Civ Quest

[X] Unlock Magic of a Goddess. (-2 Temp Mystic, -2 Temp Culture)

It was when Seryn had seen little over thirty winters that Arthryn revealed her magic to the People and gifted it to her priests, the most loyal and devout of her followers. While it worked similar to the magic that the All-Seerist gifted to her priests at the most basic level, the differences between the two goddesses meant their magic worked differently.

The magic of the All-Seer was about seeking knowledge and guiding the way forward. This results in it being able to discern what is true from what is what is false, guiding the aim of an attack regardless of a weapon and using sight beyond sight to glimpse locations that cannot be seen and peak into the past or future.

Given the nature of the All-Seeress with her desire for truthfulness and the ability to see all that she looks yet, such magic was to be expected from her.

Arthryn is a different goddess to her adopted daughter. Of the People and their culture, society and civilisation, she plans and guides, offering wisdom and kindness to lead her chosen People into the future.

So when she granted magic to her priests, no one expected it to be the ability to shape rock and stone. It wasn't anything major. The priests of Arthryn gained the ability to manipulate stone, reshaping and altering its form with time and effort.

It was similar to what the stone crafters did, but it is quicker and less tiring. Not significantly so, but there is enough of a difference to be noticeable.

However, the main advantage of the new magic over traditional means is the precision and finesse. Where as a stone crafter needs to use their tools to physically chip and carve the stone, a wielder of Arthryn's magic would just shape it with their mind, altering the form of the stone to what they had in their minds.

This allowed for much more accurate and precise stone-workings to be made and while it wasn't practical for the Arthrynite priests to replace those that created stone tools for everyday use, the priests found the magic of Arthryn useful for more sacred works of stone such as the statues and symbols of goddesses.

Even as the Arthwyd were gifted by Arthryn with her magic, their Merntir brethren had their own interesting events across the sea.

Outsiders had come from the east, following the river to its mouth where the Merntir had built their first village.

These outsiders are, well, the Merntir weren't sure if they were people or not, but if they were, they were certainly more different to anyone else that the People, be they Merntir or Arthwyd, had met.

They looked somewhere between a normal person and one of the boars that the hunters sometimes killed. With the ears and noses of a boar, these outsiders had tusks jutting out of their mouths, thick necks, broad shoulders and bulky, muscular bodies as they rode on giant boars, larger than any hunted by the People.

Imposing and armed with spears and bows, these boarfolk seemed to be more interested in trading with the Merntir than fighting them, something that most consider fortunate.

As exchanging a few goods, the boarfolk headed back east, returning to where ever they had come from.

While the boarfolk had visited them, the Merntir had managed to collect some information on them. The boarfolk lived in tribes and unlike the Merntir and the Arthwyd, they didn't live in one place, but travelled about different locations on the backs of their giant boars.

According to the boarfolk, to the east of the Merntir is endless open field, filled with shrubs and grass with a few rivers here and there. Many different tribes of boarfolk live on this massive grassland and have done so for as long as the boarfolk can remember with their oldest tales not including a time that the boarfolk had lived on this endless grassland.

Unlike the People, the boarfolk are disunited with no overall leadership with each tribe listening to its own chieftain. Furthermore, the boarfolk tribes are prone to fighting amongst themselves with conflict often breaking out.

Fortunately, the boarfolk are far enough to the east that they aren't too much of a concern for now. Outside of a single tribe travelling as far as west as the one that the Merntir just met, the People will have no contact with the boarfolk for some time.

That said, some of the wiser heads amongst the People do worry about the future. While they are unlikely to see in their lifetimes, if the Merntir were to expand eastward enough, they would soon or later end up close enough to the endless grassland of the boarfolk that the boar-riding nomads would be something of a major concern.

There is also the concern that while the boarfolk may be peaceful and seek trade over violence, there is a chance that things may change in the future. The boarfolk may wish to take what they desire by force or maybe they might decide that they want something that the People aren't willingly to part with and choose to force the issue. Perhaps a tribe or two may fancy just conquering a village for whatever reasons that the boarfolk mind might conjurer up.

But for now, things are peaceful with both the Arthwyd and the Merntir expanding, the boarfolk desiring nothing more than trade and being too far away to be a major concern and Arthryn granting magic to her priests.

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So a few things, you got some basic magic from Arthryn while the Merntir (and therefore you) have had their first encounter with the nomads, which is also your first encounter with sapient nonhumans.

You also didn't find out whether or not your choice would end the Golden Age as a random event gave you some bonus Temp Mystic in addition to doing a Venerate the Goddess as your midturn action.

Another thing is that you got a couple of new magic things. One is the Study Magic action in the action list while another new tech category for 'Magical Knowledge' in the civ sheet