As related to Eijri by her grandmother Shenji, and to her grandmother by Healer Lu'anko before her, and to Healer Lu'anko by his cousin Mibada, and to Mibada by her aunt Heinjo, and to Heinjo by her father Ku'kancho, and to Ku'kancho by Tizdei the messenger bird, and to Tizdei the messenger bird in a dream after eating too many Ku'kuchi larvae.
Elawi is a vast heavenly clump of the great troll ancestors. In Elawi, they watch their descendants. Elawi is the most powerful of the Loa, but also the least accessible: Elawi is capable of world-shaking change, but my the time they can agree on what they're doing and how to do it everyone involved may be dead, or elsewhere.
The great father. His concern is for his family's prosperity.
The Bondadi is a troll, great in life, who passed up a chance to become Elawi in favor of a more direct influence on his descendants. He wears a ceremonial bone mask and acts as chief of the Elaloa. He knows all secrets. He is strongly dedicated to the welfare of his chraib, and uses his hidden knowledge and influences to protect them. His strength is surpassed only by his secrecy, such that noone really knows how strong he is. Rogues often pray to him above all others.
Mama Ibli is the Bondadi's wife. She is the ground that hides his secrets, the trees that throw his shadows, the wind that brings him news. She is the Great Serpent, the Eldest of the Loa. She is the heart of Stranglethorn Vale, and mother to all trolls. She can bring a good harvest, lush fruits and warm nights, or barreness, floods, and catastrophe. She uses her influence to help her children or to punish them, and Shamans are her hands.
With his twin, Choki, the youngest of Mama Ibli and Bondadi's six children. Quite the little scamp, he loves making trouble for those around him. He's too adorable to punish, though. Kwiicho runs rings around Brada Ton'ga, outsmarting and taking advantage of him. Most everybody, especially Kewirachi, find his antics hilarious- until he shifts his attention to them.
Kwiicho's twin brother. When Kwiicho was born, Choki rose out of the birthing blood. He likes to follow Kwiicho around, sometimes impersonating him to Kwiicho's supplicants. No one likes Choki. His family keeps him as far away as possible. His sense of humor is brutal and destructive, his methods sociopathic. He loves making trouble as much as Kwiicho, but, unlike Kwiicho's light-hearted mischief, his pranks bring pain, misfortune, and anguish. Tribute is paid to appease and fend him off more often than to ask favors. It's tricky, though: by ignoring him, you risk angering him, but by paying tribute you attract his attention.
Another of Kwiicho's siblings, Brother Abadeo gets along really well with his mother. He spends all his time in the wild places. He never comes into the village, but he often sits in the branches of trees nearby and watches the activities. He loves to bring meat to his family, to feed and protect them, but he rarely speaks to them. If he raises his one hand, he is so strong and fierce that no animal can defeat him. If he raises his other hand, he is so young and brave that animals come and lay their heads in his lap. They are always honored to die for him. Abadeo represents the balance of eating and being eaten. Pray to Abadeo for success in hunting.
Her Dadi's baby. Her reach is secret and strong, and her will is great. She possesses much secret knowledge, and dispenses it to those she deems worthy. She has tremendous arcane power and uses it to protect her family. She's pretty sure she knows better than anyone but her father what's good for the family, though, and she's not afraid to manipulate her tribe to further those ends. Patron of mages.
Brother Ton'ga delights in the physical. He loves fighting in all its forms, eating, and drinking. He spends all his time at wargames, or on the warpath. Strongest of the Loa, although not necessarily the most puissant. Ton'ga doesn't have much use for complex thinking, but his battles are masterpieces. The only tribute he accepts are the blood of an enemy and the joyous war-cry of the berserk.
The oldest of the siblings. Gonabaut was gone by the time the others were born. She travels ceaselessly around the world, seeking adventure and new sights. Gonabaut has no fixed body. He can be old or young, male or female, short or tall, of any description. Her siblings always know him, though, by her feet. Gonabaut's feet are on backwards. You can follow her trail to see where he's going to be. Gonabaut is the first Loa of heroes, as she represents the urge to leave the home place and test oneself abroad. He often acts as a messenger. Eijri tells Gonabaut's Tale.
The Loa of healing and Medicine. Otuaban, like the Bondadi, says that he forsook a place in Elawi. Kwiicho says he just got lost on the way. Either way, he now spends his time wandering the world, healing people. He feels very holy and humble about the whole thing. He wears a white robe and carries a begging bowl as he wanders the paths. If you treat him well, he responds in kind, but if you refuse him, he lectures you endlessly on the virtues of generosity. The other Loa, especially Kwiicho, think he's kind of a stuffed shirt, but that doesn't stop them from going to him for help. Otuaban can heal any wound, if you can get him to shut up long enough to do it.
Azalo is an adoptee into the chraib. Unlike Otuaban, who is still essentially an outsider, Azalo has been accepted into the system of life-and-death protections a chraib chroo maintains. She is the most beautiful of the Ela'loa, with long, sharp tusks and eyes like heart's blood. Beauty follows her, and she drops grace like flower petals in her path. Azalo is a great listener.
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