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The Ghost: /* Tyrian */

2014-11-29T01:53:14Z

‎Tyrian

The Ghost: /* The New Blood */

2014-10-02T20:44:08Z

‎The New Blood

The Ghost: /* The Demiurges of Erlik */

2014-10-02T07:49:04Z

‎The Demiurges of Erlik

The Ghost: /* Natives of Erlik */

2014-10-02T07:46:01Z

‎Natives of Erlik

The Ghost: /* The Champions of Erlik */

2014-10-02T01:12:48Z

‎The Champions of Erlik

The Ghost: /* Erlik Today */

2014-10-01T23:14:32Z

‎Erlik Today

The Ghost: /* Erlik Today */ Detials Added, 1 step closer to complete.

2014-10-01T20:55:22Z

‎Erlik Today: Detials Added, 1 step closer to complete.

The Ghost: /* Erlik: the City of Ten Thousand Blasphemies */

2014-05-07T16:30:02Z

‎Erlik: the City of Ten Thousand Blasphemies

The Ghost: /* Code Name 'Erlik' */

2014-05-06T20:17:55Z

‎Code Name 'Erlik'

The Ghost: Just Getting Warmed up, But unfortunatly I have to go.

2014-05-05T02:14:30Z

Just Getting Warmed up, But unfortunatly I have to go.

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Erlik in a Nutshell: Erlik is a legend within [[Autochthonia]], a mythological place where an [[Apostate]] [[Alchemical]] has managed to grow into a city. Below are presented three versions of the 'City of Ten Thousand Blasphemies', each more horrific than the last.

= Warning! =

The Content of this page is purely an exercise in theoretical mechanics and hypothetical social constructs: It should be included in actual games with utmost caution and complete awareness that it will be disruptive to established content.

You have been warned.

= The Three Versions of Erlik =

Herein are outlined the three Versions of the Erlik phenomenon each one designed to build upon the legends of the dark city to make them something that the Storyteller of an [[Alchmicals]] game can actually use.

In "Code Name 'Erlik'" the original 'City of Ten Thousand Blasphemies' is long dead, destroyed by the protocol 'Retribution of Mog' but it was far from the last of it's kind. 'Erlik' is now used as a secret code name for any Apostate who manages to ascend to the status of Pattropolis/Matropolis, of which there have been several but fortunately never more than one at any given time.

In "Erlik: the City of Ten Thousand Blasphemies" The original Erlik is still alive and a menace to all of Autochthonia. This is perhaps the easiest of the three potentialities to use, but far more Horrific is...

"Erlik: the Dark Nation." In this version Erlik is not one Apostate city, it is an entire nation of ascended apostates from which void cults spring and to which those apostates who escape the retribution of their loyalist fellows congregate.

= Code Name 'Erlik' =

== A Terse History of 'Erlik' ==

== 'Erlik' Today ==

= Erlik: the City of Ten Thousand Blasphemies =

== A Terse History of Erlik ==

== Erlik Today ==

== The Champions of Erlik ==

= Erlik: the Dark Nation. =

== A Terse History of Erlik ==

== Erlik Today ==

=== Cobol: The Founder ===

=== Absys: The Shadow of Sunlight ===

=== Fortran: The Bloodied Silver City ===

=== Pascal: The Starmetal Worm ===

=== Ocami: The Black Diamond ===

=== Babbage and Yorick: the twin Blasphemies ===

== The Champions of Erlik ==

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 Once a member of the Prolific Scholars of the Furnace Transcendent in Trantek, second greatest city of Kamak: Tyrain began experimenting with soul steel after being assigned to do maintenance on the [[Ephemera Storage Manifold]] and eventually realized that the alien faces in the soulsteel of Autochtonia belonged to some race which the great maker had condemned to destruction. This realization of the great maker's utter ruthlessness turned him into a Void Cultists, and with his research notes in tow he hooked up with a group headed for Erlik. On the journey he was identified as a Demiurge and singled out for special indoctrination. When he reached Erlik he found himself whisked away from the rest of the convoy and placed in a private suite with automaton and human servants. He is surprisingly humane for a void cultist and treats his slaves well. His motivation is known to many in Erlik, find a way to release the alien souls trapped in Autochthon's Soulsteel.
-He recently has received a leg up on this: one of Erlik's scouting parties captured a small party of beings who look just like those strange people, and brought them to Erlik for experimentation. Tyrian immediately petitioned Erlik to place them under his authority, as they could be key to his work, knowing that he needed the man Erlik agreed, and within a few months Tyrian had learned their language. Now with their help he is working on a method that could in theory allow him to finally release the souls of their forebears from their soulsteel matrix, the problem being this: to do it would require both Celestial Circle Sorcery, God-Machine Protocols, and to place another soul into the soulsteel, which he is sure that Erlik will not allow. Erlik has a use for soulsteel and human souls, he does not need the souls of the Errta'een
+He recently has received a leg up on this: one of Erlik's scouting parties captured a small party of beings who look just like those strange people, and brought them to Erlik for experimentation. Tyrian immediately petitioned Erlik to place them under his authority, as they could be key to his work, knowing that he needed the man Erlik agreed, and within a few months Tyrian had learned their language. Now with their help he is working on a method that could in theory allow him to finally release the souls of their forebears from their soulsteel matrix, the problem being this: to do it would require both Celestial Circle Sorcery, God-Machine Protocols, and to place another soul into the soulsteel, which he is sure that Erlik will not allow. Erlik has a use for soulsteel and human souls, he does not need the souls of the Ereta'een
 ==== Jamri and Larvos ====

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 === The New Blood ===
-There are two versions of this section, which this author refers to as types A & 1.
+There are two versions of this section, which this author refers to as types Alpha & Omega.
-Type A is for the new batch of exalted to Be the Players Characters, the players start off right from the beginning as void lords in service to Erlik.
+Type Alpha is for the new batch of exalted to Be the Players Characters, the players start off right from the beginning as void lords in service to Erlik.
-Type 1 By contrast is when you use Erlik as presented here as an adversary: the five freshly exalted 'champions' with their voidtech already thrumming rushing to defend their city and master.
+Type Omega By contrast is when you use Erlik as presented here as an adversary: the five freshly exalted 'champions' with their voidtech already thrumming rushing to defend their city and master.
 Both options will be given a full presentation bellow.
-==== Type A ====
+==== Type Alpha ====
 A Type A game is much like an Abyssal or Infernal game, with one key exception, Type A games characters are irrevocably damned. If they were to uninstall all the voidtech which Erlik has built them containing they would briefly be able to experience clarity instead of Dissonance. And then the other 'Champions' of Erlik would kill them. It therefore is advised that you only embark on this game with players that seriously WANT to play the bad guys and do a lot of nasty, vicious, mean-spirited, and heinous things, and also that you keep such a chronicle short lest playing such a role permanently effect a weak minded players psyche.
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 Stage 0: Char Gen.
-Character generation is accomplished as normal, except that characters may take any voidtech submodules for free and must have at least one charm which is voidtech or has a voidtech submodule installed. Advise the characters that they ought to take Strain Resistant Chasis modification a few times to survive what comes next.
+Character generation is accomplished as normal, except that characters may take any voidtech submodules for free and must have at least one charm which is voidtech or has a voidtech submodule installed. Advise the characters that they ought to take Strain Resistant Chasis modification a few times to survive what comes next. As an Alternative to taking the Strain Resistant Chassis Modification Consider using the rules variant found [[The Ghost/Let's Not Play Rocket Tag|HERE]].
 Stage 1: Learning your place.
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 Even if Erlik 'wins' at the very last the ST is advised to have him lose: when he at last takes his place in the ruins of what was once Phrygea he has his people try to cannibalize and install the charm which was to allow her to interface with the great maker, hoping to kill Autochthon with one psionic blast of hatred, but instead he is destroyed as his former mentor was. When a man, or a city, embarks on a path of vengeance, he should first dig two graves.
-==== Type 1 ====
+==== Type Omega ====
 === The Others ===

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 One secret kept well by the rulers of Erlik is that there has not been a Demiurge born into the city since it's inception. Their champions must constantly hunt out and capture them from among the tunnel folk tribes across Autochthonia and drag them back to Erlik in chains in order to let Erlik continue to produce his blasphemous batches of 'champions', and that the timing of these exaltations is not so much to do with resources or the city's needs but rather when they can assemble the five demiurges they need to complete the process and break their will so that they will perform the blasphemy that is being asked of them. The capture of demiurges is a high priority for Erlik and he devotes a significant amount of resources to it, even going so far as to break his own rule of not allowing outsiders to have more status than his natives in this '''one''' instance. The Five or more Demiurges are accorded status similar to the city's Ruling Council and have their own apartments with a staff of slaves for their pleasure: Erlik understands that while the stick may be more fun and satisfying the carrot is more effective over the long term.
-Just in the past few years he has had the devils own luck and managed to secure 5 Demiurges who have become Void Cultists and willingly come to Erlik. He is currently running through 200 years of backlogged resources in exalting fresh batches of 'Champions', pausing only to secure the necessarily heroic souls to make the process work, for which he is capturing and killing people from all of the eight nations but especially Nurad who he thinks possess the requisite sternness of spirit. Ironically among these batches of Champions Soulsteel Castes such as himself are rare, since Soulsteel is the material he himself requires to build and repair his body and charms and they also pose the risk of consuming the heroic soul used to exalt them, so he only attempts to exalt a Soulsteel caste if he has a soul that he is both certain will serve for that purpose and is also certain will not serve for any other. The other five castes by contrast are common since he possesses large reserves of the other types of magical materials.
+Just in the past few years he has had the devils own luck and managed to secure 5 Demiurges who have become Void Cultists and willingly come to Erlik. He is currently running through 200 years of backlogged resources in exalting fresh batches of 'Champions', pausing only to secure the necessarily heroic souls to make the process work, for which he is capturing and killing people from all of the eight nations but especially Nurad who he thinks possess the requisite sternness of spirit. Ironically among these batches of Champions Soulsteel Castes such as himself are rare, since Soulsteel is the material he himself requires to build and repair his body and charms and they also pose the risk of consuming the heroic soul used to exalt them, so he only attempts to exalt a Soulsteel caste if he has a soul that he is both certain will serve for that purpose and is also certain will not serve for any other. The other four castes by contrast are common since he possesses large reserves of the other types of magical materials.
 The current demiurges of Erlik are as follows:

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 The People of Erlik, those born there, largely fall into one of three groups: The Militate, the Tripartite, and the Populat controllers. Those who come to Earlik from outside, no matter their station before, are treated as populat of the city. Their shift leaders and the like are drawn from the people born to the city who's soul profiles indicate they are to be part of the Populat. The Militate of Erlik are not like those of Estasia: they are trained not for raiding but for bitter and brutal WAR, total war where the goal is destruction not the capture of resources. They are fantastically equipped, with individual speeder bikes and universal power armor. They too live but a short time, as the moment they turn 16 they are implanted with Aegis Inset Amulets so that they can interface with their artifact equipment. Even with all the equipment Erlik is able to provide them with the tend to die long before they would grow old while facing down the frequent attacks on the city by destroyers and the Adamant Caste.
-All the natives of Erlik enjoy living standards Far above what the ensnared Void Cultists do. The very least of them share eight person 'Comunes' similar to Kamak and the city's most trusted mortal legates, his 'Black Nonitate Council' have residences in the flukes of the squid body right in front of it's scorpion tail where they live with staffs of handpicked slaves. Erlik's human scale champions also have their apartments here, with their own staffs of slaves servants.
+All the natives of Erlik enjoy living standards Far above what the ensnared Void Cultists do. The very least of them share eight person 'Comunes' similar to Kamak and the city's most trusted mortal legates, his 'Black Nonitate Council' have residences in the flukes of the squid body right in front of it's scorpion tail where they live with staffs of handpicked slaves. Erlik's human scale champions also have their apartments here, with their own staffs of slaves and mechanical servants.
 === The Demiurges of Erlik ===

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	== The Champions of Erlik ==		== The Champions of Erlik ==
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		+	At present Erlik has about 27 champions, a fantastical number for a single city to field. Of those 7 are the survivors of the previous batches of exalted he has created himself, 9 are void lords that have pledged themselves to him, 5 are the new batch which he has just exalted at the point where the PCs meet the Dark City, (Or perhaps are the PCs themselves and the fellow members of their first assembly...) and 6 are left wholly up to the Storyteller to play around with.
		+
		+	There are two classes of 'Champions' who serve Erlik, those that the dark city exalted himself and those that have come to him from outside and pledged themselves to his Service. As with all else Erlik does this division is more sharp than might be imagined.
		+
		+	=== The Outsiders ===
		+
		+
		+
		+	=== The Natives ===
		+
		+
		+
		+	=== The New Blood ===
		+
		+	There are two versions of this section, which this author refers to as types A & 1.
		+
		+	Type A is for the new batch of exalted to Be the Players Characters, the players start off right from the beginning as void lords in service to Erlik.
		+
		+	Type 1 By contrast is when you use Erlik as presented here as an adversary: the five freshly exalted 'champions' with their voidtech already thrumming rushing to defend their city and master.
		+
		+	Both options will be given a full presentation bellow.
		+
		+	==== Type A ====
		+
		+	A Type A game is much like an Abyssal or Infernal game, with one key exception, Type A games characters are irrevocably damned. If they were to uninstall all the voidtech which Erlik has built them containing they would briefly be able to experience clarity instead of Dissonance. And then the other 'Champions' of Erlik would kill them. It therefore is advised that you only embark on this game with players that seriously WANT to play the bad guys and do a lot of nasty, vicious, mean-spirited, and heinous things, and also that you keep such a chronicle short lest playing such a role permanently effect a weak minded players psyche.
		+
		+	If you do embark on this chronicle, knowing the dangers and problems you will face along the way, the following outline may be of help.
		+
		+	Stage 0: Char Gen.
		+
		+	Character generation is accomplished as normal, except that characters may take any voidtech submodules for free and must have at least one charm which is voidtech or has a voidtech submodule installed. Advise the characters that they ought to take Strain Resistant Chasis modification a few times to survive what comes next.
		+
		+	Stage 1: Learning your place.
		+
		+	The characters exit the vats and are 'jumped in' by the existing exalted, taking a single barehanded punch from each of them who are in the city at the time and not colossi. This will probably roll them over into lethal damage, but if they fight back they will be killed, as they have already been warned. The then are escorted to their apartments and allowed to take their anger out on their slaves as they heal. Over the next few weeks they learn that as far as Erlik's Exalted go they are at the bottom of the heap in a society that considers casual cruelty the 'nom-de-regur' and that they have to struggle for almost everything they get. During this time they will be expected to patrol the city for escape attempts, assist the Nonartite in whatever way is required, and help with defending the city from Destroyer attacks.
		+
		+	Stage 2: Play out the leash.
		+
		+	The characters will eventually be paired with several of the other exalts and sent on missions deep into the reaches, after Erlik thinks he has leverage to make sure they will report back, even for him the characters represent a significant investment. Misisons can include retrieving Void Cultists to replenish the population, murdering or kidnapping tunnlefolk, and scouting missions into Nurad. The characters will be expected to report on each others activities and play mutual commissar. This will be the longest phase of the chronicle, and ends only as Erlik at last breaches Nurad's cavern chamber. During this phase Erlik will exalt more 'champions' and the PCs will be expected to monitor and control the next set of 'New Guys'.
		+
		+	Stage 3: The Fall: of Nurad; or Erlik?
		+
		+	The last part of the chronicle will be a bitter war betwene the champions and army of Nurad and the same forces of Erlik. The two will fight in a bitter and epic struggle for supremacy as Erlik's terrible engines of destruction and dark champions lay waste to Nurad's structure and landscape.
		+
		+	Even if Erlik 'wins' at the very last the ST is advised to have him lose: when he at last takes his place in the ruins of what was once Phrygea he has his people try to cannibalize and install the charm which was to allow her to interface with the great maker, hoping to kill Autochthon with one psionic blast of hatred, but instead he is destroyed as his former mentor was. When a man, or a city, embarks on a path of vengeance, he should first dig two graves.
		+
		+	==== Type 1 ====
		+
		+
		+
		+
		+
		+
		+	=== The Others ===

	= Erlik: the Dark Nation. =		= Erlik: the Dark Nation. =

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 Erlik has unique Voidtech charms which allow him to extract useful resources from the chaos of blight zones, charms which he has used to provide for his people for the past 200 years and more. He also tears apart the makers systems with adamant tipped drills as he delves through his body, pulling out magical materials and nutrients. He constantly is in search of fresh nutrient feeds to tap for his hungry citizens and magical materials to power his relentless drive to improve his military resources in preperation for the final assault on Nurad.
-Erlik is a highly unsafe environment for humans to live in. There is nothing like any kind of safety codes there for Erlik, for the dark city revels in each death due to his systems and would never tolerate a 'waste' of resources on preserving human life. He controls his lust for suffering ruthlessly however, hovering at around Dissonance 3 or four, and does not let it rule his decision making. Even so Erlik has negative population growth under normal conditions, it's population only increasing due to a constant influx of Void Cultists from across the Octet.
+Erlik is a highly unsafe environment for humans to live in. There is nothing like any kind of safety codes there, for Erlik revels in each death due to his systems and would never tolerate a 'waste' of resources on preserving human life. He controls his lust for suffering ruthlessly however, hovering at around Dissonance three or four, and does not let it rule his decision making. Even so Erlik has negative population growth under normal conditions, it's population only increasing due to a constant influx of [[Void Cultists]] from across the Octet.
-Structural Erlik resembles a cross between an immense squid and a scorpion or centipede, it's Adamant tipped tentacles leading the way trough the structure of the great maker while its core structures scuttle behind on thousands of Soulsteel legs. Inside the core body portion live and work the almost 100,000 people who call the Dark City home, almost 50% of them void cultists from across the octet spirited away to Erlik by his champions to live and die in his nightmare realm of industry, greed, and power games. The other 50% include all the members of his dark Tripartite, for he will not brook an outsider of any description having power over those born within the confines of his blasphemous bulk. Those who come to Erlik from the rest of the octet are led to expect a Paradise of leisure and casual depravity where they will be leaders of dozens of native void cultists, only to find that they are slaves to be worked to death in the dark city's service. Their dismay and anguish is as wine and chocolate to Erlik's pallet. The barracks of the city are violent crowded places where life is cheap and cannibalism unremarkable. The convoys of void cultist that are brought to the city are implanted with multiply redundant digital devices which will kill them if they attempt to escape, or if Erlik simply feels like killing someone in an agonizing way. They then are assigned to one of the 20 barracks zones and probably will be dead within 7 years.
+Structural Erlik resembles a cross between an immense squid, scorpion, and centipede, it's Adamant tipped tentacles leading the way trough the structure of the great maker while its core structures scuttle behind on thousands of Soulsteel legs. Inside the core body portion live and work the almost 100,000 people who call the Dark City home, almost 50% of them void cultists from across the octet spirited away to Erlik by his champions to live and die in his nightmare realm of industry, greed, and power games. The other 50% include all the members of his dark Tripartite, for he will not brook an outsider of any description having power over those born within the confines of his blasphemous bulk. Those who come to Erlik from the rest of the octet are led to expect a Paradise of leisure and casual depravity where they will be leaders of dozens of native void cultists, only to find that they are slaves to be worked to death in the dark city's service. Their dismay and anguish is as wine and chocolate to Erlik's pallet. The barracks of the city are violent crowded places where life is cheap and cannibalism unremarkable though not quite common. The convoys of void cultist that are brought to the city are implanted with multiply redundant digital devices which will kill them if they attempt to escape, or if Erlik simply feels like killing someone in an agonizing way. They then are assigned to one of the 20 barracks zones and probably will be dead within 7 years.
 The People of Erlik, those born there, largely fall into one of three groups: The Militate, the Tripartite, and the Populat controllers. Those who come to Earlik from outside, no matter their station before, are treated as populat of the city. Their shift leaders and the like are drawn from the people born to the city who's soul profiles indicate they are to be part of the Populat. The Militate of Erlik are not like those of Estasia: they are trained not for raiding but for bitter and brutal WAR, total war where the goal is destruction not the capture of resources. They are fantastically equipped, with individual speeder bikes and universal power armor. They too live but a short time, as the moment they turn 16 they are implanted with Aegis Inset Amulets so that they can interface with their artifact equipment. Even with all the equipment Erlik is able to provide them with the tend to die long before they would grow old while facing down the frequent attacks on the city by destroyers and the Adamant Caste.
-One secret kept well by the rulers of Erlik is that there has not been a Demiurge born into the city since it's inception. Thier champions must constantly hunt out and capture them from among the tunnel folk tribes across Autochthonia and drag them back to Erlik in chains in order to let Erlik continue to produce his blasphemous batches of 'champions', and that the timing of these exaltations is not so much to do with resources or the city's needs but rather when they can assemble the five demiurges they need to complete the process.
+All the natives of Erlik enjoy living standards Far above what the ensnared Void Cultists do. The very least of them share eight person 'Comunes' similar to Kamak and the city's most trusted mortal legates, his 'Black Nonitate Council' have residences in the flukes of the squid body right in front of it's scorpion tail where they live with staffs of handpicked slaves. Erlik's human scale champions also have their apartments here, with their own staffs of slaves servants.
 == The Champions of Erlik ==

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	== Erlik Today ==		== Erlik Today ==

		+	The blight zone encroaching on [[Nurad]] is not a natural part of the broad collapse of the Maker's systems due to his long isolation from the resources of creation and the [[Wyld]] beyond. At it's heart lies the fabled dark city of Erlik.

		+	Erlik has unique Voidtech charms which allow him to extract useful resources from the chaos of blight zones, charms which he has used to provide for his people for the past 200 years and more. He also tears apart the makers systems with adamant tipped drills as he delves through his body, pulling out magical materials and nutrients. He constantly is in search of fresh nutrient feeds to tap for his hungry citizens and magical materials to power his relentless drive to improve his military resources in preperation for the final assault on Nurad.
		+
		+	Erlik is a highly unsafe environment for humans to live in. There is nothing like any kind of safety codes there for Erlik, for the dark city revels in each death due to his systems and would never tolerate a 'waste' of resources on preserving human life. He controls his lust for suffering ruthlessly however, hovering at around Dissonance 3 or four, and does not let it rule his decision making. Even so Erlik has negative population growth under normal conditions, it's population only increasing due to a constant influx of Void Cultists from across the Octet.
		+
		+	Structural Erlik resembles a cross between an immense squid and a scorpion or centipede, it's Adamant tipped tentacles leading the way trough the structure of the great maker while its core structures scuttle behind on thousands of Soulsteel legs. Inside the core body portion live and work the almost 100,000 people who call the Dark City home, almost 50% of them void cultists from across the octet spirited away to Erlik by his champions to live and die in his nightmare realm of industry, greed, and power games. The other 50% include all the members of his dark Tripartite, for he will not brook an outsider of any description having power over those born within the confines of his blasphemous bulk. Those who come to Erlik from the rest of the octet are led to expect a Paradise of leisure and casual depravity where they will be leaders of dozens of native void cultists, only to find that they are slaves to be worked to death in the dark city's service. Their dismay and anguish is as wine and chocolate to Erlik's pallet. The barracks of the city are violent crowded places where life is cheap and cannibalism unremarkable. The convoys of void cultist that are brought to the city are implanted with multiply redundant digital devices which will kill them if they attempt to escape, or if Erlik simply feels like killing someone in an agonizing way. They then are assigned to one of the 20 barracks zones and probably will be dead within 7 years.
		+
		+	The People of Erlik, those born there, largely fall into one of three groups: The Militate, the Tripartite, and the Populat controllers. Those who come to Earlik from outside, no matter their station before, are treated as populat of the city. Their shift leaders and the like are drawn from the people born to the city who's soul profiles indicate they are to be part of the Populat. The Militate of Erlik are not like those of Estasia: they are trained not for raiding but for bitter and brutal WAR, total war where the goal is destruction not the capture of resources. They are fantastically equipped, with individual speeder bikes and universal power armor. They too live but a short time, as the moment they turn 16 they are implanted with Aegis Inset Amulets so that they can interface with their artifact equipment. Even with all the equipment Erlik is able to provide them with the tend to die long before they would grow old while facing down the frequent attacks on the city by destroyers and the Adamant Caste.
		+
		+	One secret kept well by the rulers of Erlik is that there has not been a Demiurge born into the city since it's inception. Thier champions must constantly hunt out and capture them from among the tunnel folk tribes across Autochthonia and drag them back to Erlik in chains in order to let Erlik continue to produce his blasphemous batches of 'champions', and that the timing of these exaltations is not so much to do with resources or the city's needs but rather when they can assemble the five demiurges they need to complete the process.

	== The Champions of Erlik ==		== The Champions of Erlik ==

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 = Erlik: the City of Ten Thousand Blasphemies =
 == A Terse History of Erlik ==
 == Erlik Today ==
 == The Champions of Erlik ==

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 = Code Name 'Erlik' =
 == A Terse History of 'Erlik' ==
 == 'Erlik' Today ==
 = Erlik: the City of Ten Thousand Blasphemies =