The Sacred Spark
A Mystery of Lust and Power
Chapter 1
by 
loopsu
Selassos, the greatest city in the world, was so full of people the gates could not contain them. They spilled past the guards in their patterned kilts like goat's milk from a clay jug, seeping over and around everything in the vicinity of the gate and road until it was all colorful tents, rugs, and smells. Sandaled feet kicked up **** brown dust from the packed dirt road as pilgrims filed into the city for their blessings.
It was midsummer, the new year celebration, and nearly every woman of age in Rokasya had come to the capital city to give a donation to the temple. It was the right and moral thing to do, and it was fun.
Rokasya owed its prosperity to the temple rites, and every person had their part to play in them. In the marriage ceremony, men and women were taught the sacred sexual rituals that ensured strong, healthy babies; at the field-side shrines, seed was made more potent with the aid of the priests and their secrets; and in the Grand Temple, most powerful of all, the priestesses coaxed selys, that precious and potent energy, from between the quivering thighs of the country's women.
Selys was power. Stored in specially made clay jugs called laenai, it could be used for nearly everything from providing light to destroying approaching enemy ships. Every landing point on the island was armed with selys bombs. Nearly every home on the island was lit by it too, while on the continents they were still using candles and oil lamps.
As darkness fell on the city, the citizens and visitors converged on a mall outside a wing of the temple. It was a feast, but not the seated kind. With so many people, the crowd had to file through tables piled high with dates, nuts, and roasted rabbit, gathering what they wished on trays layered with flatbreads, and take the whole of it elsewhere to eat. The crowd was dense and difficult to navigate, but it was the best food most of the people had in their lives and so the trouble was deemed worth it. The orgy afterwards was good fun too.
Character Choices
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