Warrior's Rest

Rocky badlands and broken mesas float like rafts in Limbo’s idea-sea, linked by bridges of shouted order and drummed cadence. Banner-winds stream between islands; where standards are raised, gravity steadies and ground hardens. The sky is anvil-dark until songs ignite it. When a warband halts to feast or tell their dead’s names, green vales bloom for as long as the story lasts, then fold back into grit.  

Notable Locations

Bannerfall

A plain forested with standing standards from a thousand wars. Fallen banners sink; raised ones ring like bells and steady gravity for miles.  

The Ring of Steps

A titanic arena of concentric terraces. Each lap completed by a warband permanently grants that band a formation boon.  

Stone-in-Surf

An ascetic citadel perched on a single basalt fang; its drill-halls teach air-hardening and voice-bridge techniques.  

Hall of the Fallen Songs

A shifting mead-hall; speak a name from memory and a bench appears. The more names, the longer the roof holds.  

Yesugei's Anchor

An impossibly large heap of weights, the aggregated sum of all weights offered to Yesugei in the Ikh Taşıma. The anchor is believed to help stabilize Warrior's Rest amidst the chaos of Limbo.  

Access and Travel

There are no fixed portals. Entry is by:

• War-Call

  Invoke an accorded challenge under open sky; on a good wind the ground slants and you “march” into Warrior’s Rest.

• Escort

  Stormwardens or clan-captains can ferry guests by holding a formation through Limbo’s foam.

• Drift

  Limbo sometimes collides the realm’s edge with the Freefold Archipelago; bold travelers can step across during drills.

 

Leaving

Leaving is relatively easy... You must finish the fight you agreed to. The field releases you with a road home. Break your word and you wander.  

Inhabitants

Among the inhabitants, are Protean onlookers that haunt the margins and many other giants and other battle inclined cultures. There are also some Anarch Monasteries, which with disciplined ascetics maintain drill-scholls that teach breath-forms to shape footing and air.  

Petitioners

Warriors, captains, scouts, standard-bearers—appearing in their prime, glowing with health. They seek union with their patron through doing: drill, match, campaign. Realm-granted hardiness turns them from fragile memory into perpetual students of the fight.   If slain in fair combat, a petitioner reforms at the next bell at full hit points under the victor’s standard for one day, learning their foe’s tactics by osmosis.   Those who shirk an agreed engagement or abuse noncombatants do not reform; their pneuma is set adrift into Limbo’s flux until they atone.  

Stormwarden legions

The Kordian lawful sect, are the generals that monitor the war of Kord, usually establishing the chaotic order of war. They lead the armies of the dead.  

Fists of Kord

The Kordian chaotic sect, are hosting the games and ordeal-trials.  

The Tegrandt

The most powerful of Yesugei's worshippers reach Warrior's Rest in their afterlives, were they follow his orders and maintain the realm.    

The Rules of the Inhabitants

It should be noted that there are no sides here in Warrior's rest, they aren't fixed to a deity here. The people fight for the banner that Bested you - until you best them back.  

Rules of War apply

Poison, treachery at parley, or harm to the helpless draws sanction from both patrons.  

Respect opponents

Enemies are partners in your improvement.  

Tell the names

Feasts and memorials are structural, without them the ground itself grows mean.  

Strength uplifts

Train the willing. Equip even rivals. A worthy foe is a gift.

Whenever someone barks “Take cover”! and stone shoulders rise, giving cover, as well as orders such as Push the line, by advance disciplined unit, the gravity tilts toward the enemy and changes the speeding charges. However, cowardice or broken formations invite winds that erase fortifications back to scree.