Some Slaught History

     Slaught was originally a word to describe someone who was dozing off, daydreaming, crazy, or just somehow out of it. People would even describe themselves as slaught. However, after the Reign Phenomenon that started in the Laara district of Caarn's Sea, the word slaught was considered rude to say. Many of the people during the "phenomenon" were absent minded and seemed soulless. They were often branded as slaught, or as a singular noun, they would be known as a silv. In Roz’nectuine the word is commonly used as a curse word, especially toward those who seem mentally unstable, those who are ill, and those who are handicapped. The usage of the word picks up immensely after Alucin Latrus’s reign.

The Reign Phenomenon

     The Reign Phenomenon was caused by a man who wanted to own the country closest to the Caarnin Seas. He was sent to the depths of the sea after betraying Caarn's crew and siding with the Scournj. He never died. He just suffocated over and over, coming back to life until he finally fell asleep beneath the sand. Years later he awoke with a god-complex and a yearning to murder Yelfera. He delved into learning magnius arts that were based heavily in the sciences of biology and chemistry. He infused an ocean current in the Caarn Sea with a magnius-borne plague. He even added it into many lakes on the country next to the sea, Roz’nectuine. This "plague" allowed him to manipulate the minds of many weak Meinra. (Meinra were people who were said to have the potential to defeat Enane.) Eventually, people came to fear Enane and his Meinra. And many people started praising him as a god. And once a creature is held as a god, it is given praise by those foolish enough to follow or fear it. Enane is no exception. He grew powerful from offerings and gifts and began to infect the rain with his disease. After three years, people started to believe it was the Blessing of Enane to become a Meinra. But the only people who could kill the false god were those who once tasted the Rain of Yelfera. Enane grew strong enough to summon rain when he wanted, where he wanted. And he inflicted many people with his water-borne disease.

     Once she heard the man causing this outbreak was a man who once served her lover Caarn, Yelfera herself decided to bring an end to it. She tried to bless the land with her holy rain. But this was what Enane was hoping for. He infected all who had tasted this rain in the lands. In a final uprising, Yelfera fought alongside the First Caarnalvite King, Latris Nectilene. She began to worship him and gave him praise directly from a goddess - and a well-known and powerful one. With the promise to offer her life to him in front of Enane, he grew powerful enough to heal those with slaught minds.

     Yelfera ultimately was consumed by Latris at her own instruction. And, with her magnius bonding with his own through her final Ucryptis casting, he gained the power to cleanse the water stuck in Enane's lungs and remove his immortality. He discarded his corpse in the Caarn Sea.

     In the short end of his life, Enane said he regretted his betrayal against Caarn; that he wanted his friend's forgiveness. Leaving his resting body in the Caarn Sea was an act of kindness from the First Caarnalvite King.

After the Phenomenon

     Latris had the chance to keep power over a large amount of the country. But he wanted a small kingdom with a few neighboring regions. So he found a place to make home and ruled peacefully, opening trade routes to the nearby lands he could have ruled. He anointed men and women he trusted greatly as rulers for the neighboring kingdoms.

     It's said that when the king died of old age, a baby began crying. This baby was taken from his throat, born in a pool of blood, and stolen by a dark-skinned man garbed in a cloak. Some believe it was Yelfera's Side, Hinnevlure (Hinec), coming to grab the reborn goddess.

     Those who worked in the kingdom noticed that the fourth in command from the King's Seat, a tall man similarly described to Hinnevlure, but with red skin, had disappeared from the lands immediately following the king's death.

The Conquest of Alucin Latrus

     When Latris Nectilene ate Yelfera, his story was passed on within his kingdom as a heroic act. He did not shy away because of fear or disgust; he obeyed Yelfera and the country was saved.

     It's believed that Alucin Latrus became deluded by this story as a child, and when he dawned conquest, he consumed men and gods alike. For this reason, Latris's actions are no longer held as a heroic act. Instead, in the days of Alucin's sons, King Latrus Alurin and Alucin Lerin, the First Kings' actions have been known as The Origin Err.

     When Yelfera cast her final spell, she inscribed circular markings of a strange art known as ucryptis upon Latris's back. But she did not want to leave him scarred with her inscription, so she made it glow green. The spell wasn't only to ensure he'd obtain her power from consuming her, it also ensured her rebirth would come from his corpse. The woman who fancied this marking most was the king's wife, C'yena Te'errn.

     Alucin Latrus created his pendant from the flesh of the First Caarnalvite King's glowing back. (His back stayed intact and never rotted. Though Yelfera didn't know this would happen.)He dug his ancestors' corpse from the ground with the help of a gravedigger in the cemetery. He knew the lands he ruled buried gods below the surface, rather than hold them in the sky. He knew he would one day be buried, as well. But he wanted to be feared first. He wanted to expand the kingdom and obtain what he yearned for. He wanted to resurrect and eat Staara. He wanted to obtain Yelfera. And if she tried to escape or kill him, he'd consume her and gain her power.

     But the necklace he crafted with his closest followers didn't absorb power from those he ate. It only trapped their souls in a world only Yelfera had known before. And they would stay trapped until it broke. Alcuin eventually came to know of this.

     The necklace made by Alucin can't actually break. Once broken, the souls trapped inside will be forced out. Yelfera will bring any who have been trapped within the pendant back to life within a crafted body. That is, assuming one owns the upgraded version of the necklace. If it's the original, then one can only trap a soul through consumption. The body is stuck in the other realm within her magnius. The body and soul cannot join, though. If the owner of the necklace meets with Yelfera, she can pull the consumed from the stomach of the consumer and attach the soul back to its original body.