(I never know where to write these things) So I'll put one here now, The fella above this awkwardly placed (maybe I'll change the alignment from now on so the image is to the left and text on the right) information is McGiveny Brigg. When Col. Reusille Hulks lowered the age of the draft in the Last Great War to fourteen years old to swell the ranks for the Last Great Charge, he also opened up the gates of Lancehead prison, conscripting all of the prisoners. McGiveny fit both criteria, so he got to be platoon leader. He's as crafty as they come, and if you don't think he's crafty, well, he'll just cut ya.
Janvia Magetal is the Engineer of AHT, one of the more settled minds, if there's a project chances are even the men of AHT will let her take charge, a natural gift for numbers and all that stuff. When her hands got blown off fixing some artillery, she just took it in stride and went to work on her next project, building herself a set of hands, actually sets of hands, that she carries in many trunks in her mobile workshop.
Gardan families have strange names, Murder, Maim and Maihem are there equivalents of John, Steve and Mark. Murder walks a fine line in AHT he was a young Gardan who fought on our side in THE LAST GOOD WAR. Folks in AHT still eye him strangely and the Gardan compounds don't want him around. He'd tell you this himself, but Marcelin Gargan and Mother High Dispaten cut out his tongue. He had become Janvia Magetal's loyal assistant.
The monks of Osolin Sugar worship the Circle and the space inside it. The monks keep to themselves at a monastery up in the hills, many soldiers who have come back from either THE LAST GOOD WAR or THE FIRST GOOD WAR end up going there to face their demons, some even stay (see. Handelin Games of Birthplace Mighty and Secure). If pounding sugar cane and stirring boiling pots, trying to draw a perfect circle and red scarves get your buns hummin' the Osolin Sugar Monastery is your destination.
"Socada" first we have to define the word "Socoda" see, in AHT there are LOTS of ghosts I'm talkin' loads of ghosts, there are the ghosts of dead sailors, the ghosts of dead lovers, the ghosts of dead dogs, the ghosts of dead murderers (see Lancehead prison) etc.etc. It's when we get to the ghosts of dead Indians (see Greenpoints) that the word "Socoda" becomes important, the Greenpoints natives use that term to describe their warrior spirits and since there are so many kinds of ghosts in AHT we have adopted the name as well to distinguish our wartime dead from all the other kinds of dead that we have. Socada Rhimas was the first soldier killed in THE FIRST GOOD WAR, most spirits of the wartime dead moved on when the War ended so many short months ago, but he's stayed in AHT, talking with his daughter, Allis, who hasn't told the rest of us why he's still here.
A.Shay Hahn
WHAT???? No Virgo? How can I go on living?!
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