Animation for the 4th article from the Leccos Herald #1, an interactive PDF NFT.

One of the most notorious survivor of the old daiodi ways was the priestess of the occult, who had turned to the infernal forces to save her people.

Rattlesack Number is the prodigal witch doctor responsible for the new direction of the daiodi tribes. With the magical aid of cursed staff Hevinin, she had built a pile of skulls to attract infernal entities from the Below. The pile grew over time and eventually was strengthened by pillars. There’s now an entire catacomb system underneath it. Rattlesack was described as a lakonic, harsh person. Ou’Rangi meeting with her and her coven of witches is recounted. And it was short. Once the rangi emmisary said his piece (essentially asking how the Daiodi define borders of their territory), Rattlesack just replied: “A free society knows no borders.” and dismissed the rangi envoy. She was the leading witch of a larger coven that had already dabbled in the art of necromancy – a form of magic that had been frowned upon before the event of ‘Lakeside plague’. The extreme relationship with the dead is now normalised among the nomadic tribes as an indirect result of the daiodi culture shift. Both wild Kotharakai and barbaric Quagga revere the dead beyond the funeral rites. Daiodi specialise in non-corporeal aspect of necromancy: ghosts and wraiths. The lead witch is now buried under the Muinarc Hill. In fact, there is a rumour about a secret, unaccessible mausoleum. Since the days of the Rattlesack and her coven, the daiodi tribes have no single leader. It remains a mystery how this fairly recent society holds together, furthermore strengthening the ‘infernecrotic’ bind. Even the loose and distant small bandit tribes are getting more occult, continuously forming the hellbound religious order. It is also observed that there is an arachi presence at the daiodi ‘courts’, signifying a higher scheme at play. And as the Arachi think in different time scales, it is hard to deduce what the deeper game is about. Nonetheless, it would be naïve to think the daiodi continuous unification pose no threat to the development of the modern day Harbours. ⁜

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