KAR'NAI
Kar'nai, in the frigid Northlands nearly a thousand bloits north of
Galepath, is an ancient and mystic religious site where the
divinely-inspired Scrolls of Kar'nai were penned in circa 300
BE.
While
little is known of the first century religious wars of Kar'nai (47~50
GUE), it was said to be the start of a string of bloody conflicts. This
order of religious monks had been living in a monastery in the
Northlands. Although they lived on the ancestral territory of foreign
warrior tribes, they were usually ignored, until a new chieftain
assumed power. For reasons that are now lost to us, the prophets of
Kar’nai perished in these years by the sword in the reign of Mysterion
the Brave. The details of this war are lacking, save an inscription at
the gravesite of Zylon the Aged which reads, “Bringer of Victory in the
Wars of Kar’nai.”
Some see the following passage from the First
Scroll of Kar'nai, Book Five as clearly evident that this group of
prophets predicted their own deaths 350 years earlier: "Why, they ask,
do these powerful gods allow the death of their prophets at the hands
of infidels from other lands? The answer laughs at its own simplicity.
Sacrifices must be made."