13 – Beatpot
The Redlands: The lands beyond the Oraya Satrapy are wide plains once ruled by Pentan nomads but abandoned more than a century ago. It is still most empty except for a few villages of Lunar pioneers and a few bands of Pentan nomads who have returned in recent years.
Varn Aks people: The Varn Aks are one of the Ten Arrows of Pent. They herd cattle, sheep, and goats, and worship the West King Wind, North War Wind, South Rage Wind, East Sting Wind, and Gamara the Horse Goddess.
Beat-Pot’s Rebellion: In 7/43, Beat-Pot took up his cleaver and butchered his overseers, starting a slave rebellion that rocked the Oraya Satrapy. He beat his cooking pot into a helmet and took an executioner’s sword, said to have once been the cleaver of a giant. He defeated the Lunar satrap and his army and quickly seized all of Oraya except the capital city itself.
mis-spelling in 2nd frame: I was taken as a “kictneh” slave
Thanks, it will be fixed and switched in a moment.
So many turnips!
To be honest, I less sorry for Beat-Pot and more sorry for the soldiers who will have to eat that stuff.
Life’s a riot for a Lunar slave!
This series continues to be excellent!
As an ignorant neophyte, why does it say the date of 1614 in the first picture of the prior installment, but 7143 in the comments on this page? Referring to Beat-Pot’s Rebellion, I mean.
That’s because we never got around to changing the font for the commentary. It actually reads 7 / 43
1614 is the year measured in Solar Time (ST), which means it has been 1614 years since the Dawn. However the Lunars also use their own system of time, called Lunar Time, which calculates the date from the birth of the Red Goddess. So the first number (7) is called a Wane, while the second number is the year during that Wane (in this case 43). There are 54 years in a Wane, and this ends up being the same year as in Solar Time.
For events that occurred before the birth of the GOddess, the Lunars either use ST or use the ancient Dara Happan time measurements, depending on the person.
It did look a bit like a slash, but I still wouldn’t have known all those details. Thanks a lot for explaining it!
You are quite welcome! If you have any other questions when reading along, don’t be afraid to ask in here and someone will almost always answer them.
Love that you can see his ‘pot’ in the second frame!