Preview of coming book: "A study in the Military Fashion of the Machaka Empire."
"The unholy nation of Machaka with its spider knights, mounting gigantomorphic arachnoids. Don nothing but lion hide, hide-shield and lengthy wooden spears to poke at their foes. The knights fierce and agile in battle and their mounts made of nightmare. Anyone brave enough to face these monsters must watch out for the fangs, or be caught between the chelicerae to have their skulls punctured and their insides violently sucked out through the rupture."
- Aristodemadus,
"Machaka battle formation in campaigns in Central Africa"
Machaka chieftains boasted their prowess in battle by collecting the skulls of their victims, fixing them onto linen string, through the rupture which the innards were extracted from. It was said that they ground the bones of the vanquished and mixed it with cow milk to produce white war paint with which they lubricate their body from below their hips. Reenactment of this has yet to be done.
The origin of the husbandry of their mounts is unknown but is of mythological connotations, and held in sacred regard. Foreign nations saw the husbandry as filthy, unclean, and it is theorised that this be the reason for the fall of the Machaka Empire: Isolation from the outside world. The surrounding nations quarantined the entirity of the Machaka from trade and migration in disgust of their culture.
Breeding their sacred mount was done through a procedure called, by Aristodemadus, 'Austyxia' where they intoxicated a lioness with a combination of alcohol and spiders venom, by bathing a slave in the mixture and feeding the slave to the female lion. The lioness would become drowsy and unable to bite or fight the witch doctor directing the operation, and he would inseminate the lioness with spider seed. Six moons later, the lioness would give birth to a cub of such abnorm features that the mother would dismiss the cub or at worst, maw it.
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- Aristodemadus,
"Machaka battle formation in campaigns in Central Africa"
Machaka chieftains boasted their prowess in battle by collecting the skulls of their victims, fixing them onto linen string, through the rupture which the innards were extracted from. It was said that they ground the bones of the vanquished and mixed it with cow milk to produce white war paint with which they lubricate their body from below their hips. Reenactment of this has yet to be done.
The origin of the husbandry of their mounts is unknown but is of mythological connotations, and held in sacred regard. Foreign nations saw the husbandry as filthy, unclean, and it is theorised that this be the reason for the fall of the Machaka Empire: Isolation from the outside world. The surrounding nations quarantined the entirity of the Machaka from trade and migration in disgust of their culture.
Breeding their sacred mount was done through a procedure called, by Aristodemadus, 'Austyxia' where they intoxicated a lioness with a combination of alcohol and spiders venom, by bathing a slave in the mixture and feeding the slave to the female lion. The lioness would become drowsy and unable to bite or fight the witch doctor directing the operation, and he would inseminate the lioness with spider seed. Six moons later, the lioness would give birth to a cub of such abnorm features that the mother would dismiss the cub or at worst, maw it.
(...)
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