Djinn society

The Mystic Clan

The clan who mastered magic long before others thought it was possible. In old times you had managed to manifest where others couldn’t.

The only war band stronger than yours are the Stone Sickle (until the Conquering Worm remerged.)

The Stone Sycle

The Stone Sickle are the second highest-ranked warband of the Hundred Nations. They are warrior-philosophers who value the power they gain from knowing their enemies, and the training of the self.

The main guiding principle of the stone Sickle is that to beat an enemy, you must know your enemy – but to truly know an enemy, you must defeat them. The Sickle “reap” knowledge – they cut down their enemies and take from them tokens to remind themselves of the lessons they learnt in killing that enemy.

All members of the Stone Sickle practise this belief – they all hunt enemies to gain insight and knowledge, they all take trophies from the dead to wear as reminders of the knowledge they have gained. While they can be relentless in their hunts, they are mindful of those who are perhaps beyond their power – begrudging truces with powerful communities beside their own is possible and they have reached such situations in their history.

The Stone Sickle have little knowledge of magic beyond the basic abilities of their kind – their greatest rivals, the First Warband of the Hundred Nations, are heavily involved in forbidden knowledge of magics, so generally the Stone Sickle will have little time for magical knowledge. They believe knowledge must be earnt, not stolen from writings.

The Stone Sickle are warriors, they dress in practical garments, but adorn them with the trophies of their kills – in this strange world they find themselves in, trophies take strange forms too – scraps of clothing from the dead, tokens they find in their pockets, small pieces of jewellery, brightly coloured plastics. Trophies will always have a lesson, a piece of knowledge attached to them relating to the one who was killed to gain it, the Stone Sickle are proud of the knowledge, they will share it if asked directly about such things.

After the manifestation, the Stone Sickle have slowly been reconnecting and reforming. Their leader has been particularly effective in rounding up her warband, and they have been fast to regroup and mobilise to learn about the world and to find their fellow Warriors.