Yena’s Daughters

Will · Geplaatst: 24 Feb 2024 14:03

Three war-bands, calling themselves Yena’s Daughters, have made the Diamond Road that runs between Gem and the Lap their hunting ground. The Realm publicly dismisses them as mere bandits, but if even half of the stories told in caravanserais and wine sinks are true, then these mere bandits have inflicted untold damage in lost revenue and lives. Tribute caravans simply vanish into the desert, one after another. Realm-friendly trading posts are burned.

Yena’s daughters are a trio of hyena-women, inheritors of their mother’s ferocity and survival instincts. Red-haired Yataqa has assumed control of a mixed band of exiles from Harborhead and the Delzahn tribes, and mounts lightning cavalry raids from the deep desert. Janati, youngest of the sisters, leads a group of Wyld mutants, many of whom blend into the hills and dune-slopes when still. They specialize in ambushes, and have a hundred bolt-holes in the red cliffs and arroyos that line certain stretches of the road. Yataqa and Janati keep what plunder they fancy, distribute generously to their followers, and then either strew the rest of their stolen goods across the trackless waste, or amuse themselves by returning precious baubles to those who gave them up to the Realm, creating suspicions of collaboration. Ratana, by contrast, always keeps her prizes. She lacks the muzzle her sisters sport, and so fancies herself the loveliest of the three—she’s fond of smiling after making this boast, showing the bone-cracking teeth she inherited from her mother. Her band is made up of crack mercenaries armed with firewands and Chiaroscuran glass armor. She keeps their loyalty with princely shares of all she steals.

Yena Bone-Breaker coordinates her daughters’ efforts and leads their fiercest raids. Her laughter echoes among the red canyons and rolls across the burning dunes. Yena’s Daughters frustrate every attempt to find their lairs and rally a Wyld Hunt. They stalk the walled villages and oasis-towns of the Diamond Road, leaving precious trinkets, stolen food, and heaps of silver on the doorsteps of the common folk to buy their goodwill. Yena herself descends in the night to devour the bones of any who inform the Realm of their movements. The losses continue to mount.