The Mor'phann dwell in cold and lightless waters, in an ethersea that hangs about their spires thick as grave-mist. Theirs is the most sombre of all the enclaves, a nation shaped by scarcity and sorrow, where the Namarti (the eyeless, voiceless aelves born without whole souls) outnumber the whole-souled many times over. The Mor'phann speak little and mourn much, and their cities are quiet as tombs beneath a weight of grief that never lifts.
From that sorrow they have wrung an unrivalled mastery of soul-magic. No enclave works the ethersea more deftly, or more terribly, calling up drowning tides of stolen essence and phantom currents that drag the living down as surely as any undertow. When the slow tide of a Mor'phann host finally comes in, it comes without haste and without mercy: it takes every soul within reach and gives nothing whatsoever back, receding to leave a shore of emptied husks behind.
Within the Idoneth Deepkin, the Mor'phann are the deep mourners: the enclave that turned its endless grief into its deadliest art, and drowns the realms above in the same cold sorrow that fills its own lightless halls.
Order of battle
The Mor'phann field the units of the Idoneth Deepkin, a detachment from the roster:
Other Idoneth Deepkin formations
Dhom-hainThe Deep Questers, who dove further from the light than any other enclave and remain fiercely proud of it. Peerless hunters of the great beasts of the benthic dark, the Dhom-hain broke early from Ionrach oversight and want nothing from the surface world but its souls, counting diplomacy a surface-dweller's disease.
FuethanThe fiercest of the enclaves, dwelling in hot, restless seas where everything bites. Fuethan beast-handlers prize the most vicious eels and sharks of any Idoneth nation, red-finned and half-feral, and the enclave's raiders are cut from the same hide: quick to strike, slow to forgive, and openly scornful of Ionrach dreams of unity.
IonrachThe eldest and greatest of the enclaves, seat of High King Volturnos and the closest thing the scattered Idoneth possess to a capital people. The Ionrach alone argue that the enclaves are one nation, and that the Deepkin might yet take an honest place among the peoples of Order, though the allies they fight beside rarely remember the alliance afterward.
Discussion
- No comments yet. Be the first to reply.