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Gypsy Calling Daisy
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Taken from the letters of Hans Thelmun 13/11/390
Province: The Land of the Dead
Species: The Dead
Population: Unknown, but modern mathmatics places it somewhere in the billions
Gender division: Unknown and somewhat redundant
Age range/ avg: 13/9000
Currency: None
Political structure: Kingship, theoretically..
Religion: Unknown
Language: Lengua de los muertos, Tongue of the Dead
Trade goods: The Dead export a frightningly strong alcohol known only as Los muertos, its unknown what its made from and frankly i belive that is a good thing.
They also export games of chance via ambassadors parties, the most common being games revolving around Cards.
Landscape: On the outside the land of the dead is a desert about 20km square, with one road running through the middle and nothing of interest visible.
On the inside however, it is a near infinite space housing a continent sized city resplendent in light and music, a land of mysteries and magic.
My lord Hanolver.
The land of the dead is a fascinating place, i could write entire libraries of books about the road of the dead alone without once mentioning the dead themselves!
While the name The dead dose conjure images of a dour and slow people they truth is the exact opposite, worries from life are forgotten, the weight of flesh removed from the lively and energetic bones beneath and hardly a moment goes by not filled with laughter and song.
And that's just on the road! i can only imagine what a riot of color and sound the city itself must be, alas i cannot reach it, nor can any other living being, no matter how far or fast you travel down the Road of the Dead the city is forever just on the horizon.
Whether this is intended to protect the Dead from the living or vice versa i do not know, but i can say it is a foolish man who would attack a people who outnumber his own, at a conservative estimate, four thousand to one.
As requested i include a portrait of one of the dead, taken as he passed through the camp, notice that the skull has already begun to change, the eye sockets sealing shut and the nose cavity darkening.
I believe that this
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