Couatlán

Couatlán

(DMed by David W.) Starting in May of 2018.
The round-ears, the fair-skins have come from beneath the watery horizon in the east on great wooden vessels with death and destruction in their hearts. They have killed the kith and kin of many tribes. Many more have suffered worse, tortured, mutilated, or taken as slaves to serve the fair-skin’s wicked ends. With the help of the divine couatls who have protected the land for millennia, the elders of the disparate and ravaged tribes have formed a tenuous alliance, the Couatlán, to fight back against the encroaching tyranny. Several small bands of mixed tribesmen and women with varied skills and talents have been dispatched into the wilds to strike back against the round-ears and fair-skins with cunning, speed, and patience.

For countless millennia, the varied and disparate tribes of the jungle-continent of Ro’thas have waged war, formed alliances, traded and hid from each other. While the vast majority of these tribes have developed their own unique culture and traditions, an unspoken, unseen, wild and primordial force penetrates and permeates into each and every society that calls Ro’thas home. This undeniable entity, collectively referred to as Teotl, represents the essence of the wild divine and carries with it many interpretations. It is said however that representatives of Teotl are physically manifested as divine couatls who preserve and protect the wilderness and in rare instances even walk among mortals in disguise.

The great Orb-Weaver’s Web of Teotl, stranded between the two Ceiba Trees of Death and Life, represents the myriad relationships and connections between the vastly different tribes and peoples of eastern Ro’thas. This notion is taught by all tribal elders, despite their divergent backgrounds, and is passed down through generations. The wood elves hunt alongside the hueyi while the cunning ocelotl keep a curious eye on them from amongst the trees. Lizardfolk tear out simple and brutal existences and would just as easily eat a gnome as trade with one. The bold tritons tend to stay to their underwater realms both inland and off the coasts. And the mysterious yuan-ti keep much to themselves, despite their genealogical connection to both the elves and the divine couatls. Nonetheless, the Orb-Weaver’s Web of Teotl ensnares all, and all life makes up its silken strands.

A generation ago, the first of the fair-skins arrived upon their great wooden vessels from beyond the end of the world, further than even the tritons have known. Wood elves and hueyi, tritons and gnomes greeted the the fair-skins and their scaly brethren with curious eyes and open arms. In return, they were slain where they stood with wicked metal blades, they were carried off for slavery and torture, they were massacred by the thousands. For many seasons the fair-skins and their scaled cohorts have committed these unspeakable atrocities with little resistance, but that time is now coming to an end.

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Call of the Couatls[edit]

Twenty years after the initial contact with the fair-skins, the divine couatls have answered the pleas of the tribal elders, and have instructed them to initiate the Coualtán.