Ubasti - Ancestry
Enhance your ZWEIHANDER Grim & Perilous RPG game with a new Ancestry: the Ubasti!
Beyond common reckoning¸ there was once a place of endless golden oceans¸ extending far as the eye could see. Called the Torchlands¸ this mythological desert was centered around oases and ruled by imperious priest-kings. The oasis people worshipped a pantheon of animalian gods and built megaliths in their honor. However¸ the vainglorious priest-kings sought for the oasis people to love them as much as they did the pantheon. In their hubris¸ the priest-kings engineered a servitor¸ feline race in the image of the gods called the Ubasti (pronounced eww bah stee ). The creation of the Ubasti showed the oasis people that the priest-kings were equal to the pantheon. In time¸ the priest-kings rose to become gods themselves. Thus began the Deicide; a war for primarchy over the Torchlands. As the war raged and the Ubasti fought on behalf of their creators¸ great pillars of fire reigned down and turned the seas of sand into glass. At the war's climax¸ a cataclysm drowned the Torchlands in a great deluge. Being clever as they are¸ however¸ the Ubasti managed to escape aboard an arc that carried them across the seas.
Washing ashore some number of months later¸ the Ubasti quickly acclimated to their new world. While the monomyth of the Deicide persists¸ their litters have scattered to the farthest reaches over the hundreds of years that have passed. The Ubasti of old may have been hairless¸ but today they possess a wide variety of feline and humanoid physical qualities. This has led to ethnic divisions within their own Ancestry¸ as Ubasti rarely intermingle with others outside the litter. While matriarchal and territorial¸ they are insatiably curious¸ filled with wanderlust and too clever for their own good. Perhaps it is lucky that Ubasti reputedly possess nine lives... for the grim & perilous world they have come to is indiscriminate with who it chooses to raise up or cast down.