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+# lore/concerning-lizardfolk.md
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+title: Concerning Lizardfolk
+author: evilchili
+show_dm_content: False
+tags: lore
+date: 2022-08-15 20:04:43.836471
+status: draft
+---
+
+Lizardfolk have a proud tradition of nomadic tribal life along the northeastern Sahwat. Within the last few hundred years the tribes have traveled close enough to Tano's Edge to first establish regular trade relations, and eventually immigrate into the cities. Today, Lizardfolk are somewhat rare but not unknown, particularly in Gazakh Noch, where a sizable population lives in the Scaletown neighbourhood.
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+The Lizardfolk cultural traditions are tightly interwoven with a deep spiritual connection to the land: they worship the Sahwat as a deity, and consider the nomadic travel of the tribes an eternal pilgrimage. Accordingly, a certain tension exists between nomadic Lizardfolk who keep to the old ways and those who have settled outside the desert proper.
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+### Scentspeak
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+Generations of life in the Sahwat has had its effects, and chief among them is *Scentspeak*, a Common name for the Lizardfolk language consisting of telepathic imagery combined with emotional information conveyed by pheramones expressed from scent glands at the base of the neck. Some examples:
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+| Emotion     | Smells Like... |
+|-------------|----------------|
+| Happy       | Ham            |
+| Sad         | Lemons         |
+| Angry       | Onions         |
+| Scared      | Rotten Eggs    |
+| Impressed   | Bacon          |
+| Irritated   | Cabbage        |
+| Serious     | Jasmine        |
+| Bored       | Dirt           |
+| Alarmed     | Burnt Toast    |
+| Proud       | Cookies        |
+| Ashamed     | Old Socks      |
+| Curious     | Grass          |
+| Reverential | Roasted Garlic |
+| Disgusted   | Raw Garlic     |
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+Tiny variations and combinations of odors can be expressed to convey subtle distinctions; the more intense the odor, the more vivid the emotion. For example, a Lizardfolk releasing his sins to the sand may smell like a combination of ham and roasted garlic with an undercurrent of old socks. 

deadsands/content/lore/the-path-to-the-chamber-of-stars.md

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+# lore/the-path-to-the-chamber-of-stars.md
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+title: The Path to the Chamber of Stars
+author: evilchili
+show_dm_content: False
+tags: lore
+date: 2022-09-30 19:40:22.059592
+status: published
+description: What the Traveler reads in the dust...
+---
+
+4 spans we travel from the moonlit door to the chambered stars. Seekers of Joy attend, and know our ways:
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+3 steps a day we spread, covering the stones
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+2 .... .o...t., 1 Ea..: 9 step.. we tak. ..f.re rest
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+1 North, 1 East, 1 North, East and East, Joy beckons
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+South and South and South, 
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+South and South again: Joy calls us downward and away
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+To the sunset we turn for 2 days more,
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+And 2 final days South we crawl; until the last 3 days at dawn
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+Bring us to the stars of morning, where sit we now in our Joy Unending
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+But we wonder what Joy exists beyond these walls of space and time
+
+What holds us here?
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+What purpose a Joy contained, fettered and singular?