Truhal's World

In the beginning, there was Truhal, the Great God...and He was horny. So He made 5 Goddesses to be his wives, and another 23 Goddesses to be His concubines, and they satisfied Him. But, being the Great God, His seed was potent, and between them the 28 Goddesses produced hundreds of divine children. And as children are wont to do, godly or not, They bickered and fought, and Truhal had no peace.

But although He was something of a pervert, Truhal was wise, and saw that what His children needed was some form of productive activity. So He said to Them and Their mothers, "Let us make a world". And lo, the gods did, and worked together harmoniously...at first. For when the time came to bring thinking beings to the newly-made world, the gods could not decide what that life would be like. And so the gods fought, until Truhal declared that each of Them would make a different kind of thinking being, as would He and His concubines. And so They did, each trying to show of His or Her creativity and cleverness...except Truhal, who felt that He had no need to impress anyone, and merely made a small, largely powerless version of the gods, a race He dubbed "human".

When the time came for all the gods to present the races they had made, Truhal's children couldn't help but mock His paltry creation. Truhal was wroth, and decided to punish them, while at the same time giving Himself some added perverse amusement. He declared that alone of all the thinking races, only His humans would have males, and thus only humans would be able to father children. But not being a cruel God, Truhal further decreed that the children of human males and females of other races would breed true and only be the species of their mother. And further, he declared that all thinking females would take pleasure from females as much as from males; and that they would do so often, for He declared that all thinking beings would be lusty, as He was.

And so it was. And civilization developed, with most men kept in sacred temples, protected, pampered, and available to any female who wished to bear children or just wanted to know what it was like, although those few who wished otherwise were permitted to leave.

Among those men who have chosen to make a life for themselves outside their temples are the Wizard Gim, who dwells in a hidden fortress with dozen devoted slavegirls, honing his art; and the Goblin King Ryk, who rules a subterranean empire of adoring goblins, orcs, hobgoblins, gnolls, kobolds, etc.

And then there is Vod, a young man who through sheer coincidence thrice found himself satisfying an adventuring party known as the Sisterhood of the Scarlet Swan, and subsequently falling in love with and deciding to run off with them. On his first night with the Sisterhood, they ran into another adventuring party, Dominael's Darers. As politeness dictated, the two groups made camp together, sharing food and sex. But when the Sisterhood woke in the morning, they found that the Darers had gone, and taken Vod with them.

The members of the Sisterhood, who all have lower-back tattoos of a red swan, are as follows:

LETHKRIK: The leader, Lethkrik is a ghoul; asides from the bones, breasts, lips, genitalia, and anus, her flesh is transparent. Thus, when naked and in the dark, she appear to be a skeleton (albeit with a few fleshy bits), and in the light, one only gets a vague outline of their shape. Lethkrik is a tall, strapping lass, a true Amazonian beauty. A skilled and powerful warrior, she is also rather brilliant, a natural-born philosopher. Her musings on whether it was ethical to eat other thinking beings got her exiled from her tribe, leading to her becoming a celebrated adventurer.

YADIN: The group's primary spellcaster and Lethkrik's lover, Yadin is hybsil, a species of fey who are similar to centaurs, but with a small wingless faerie in place of the human bits, and an antelope in place of the horse bits; also they have antelope horns/antlers with the human bit ending not at the waist, but just below the thighs, so Yadin has humanoid genitalia and buttocks as well as the antelope kind. Small and petite, in contrast to the statuesque Lethkrik, Yadin was a lifelong scholar who decided to write a paper on Lethkrik's exploits and ending up falling in love with her subject. Arranging to meet Lethkrik, Yadin found her to be everything she's imagined, and declared an intention to be the ghoul's biographer, which required her to follow Lehtkrik around on her adventures. After demonstrating that she could handle the various stresses of this path, Lethkrik agreed. Yadin naturally took the opportunity to seduce Lethkrik, and Lethkrik happily allowed herself to be seduced. The rest is history.

THROAD: A human thief. As one would expect from a member of the profession, she is lithe and sleekly muscled. Formerly part of a gang of cat-burglars, Throad turned on her comrades and testified against them, in exchange for a reduced sentence; thus instead of having her fingers broken and being imprisoned she was merely exiled from her home city in Lethkrik's custody. In order to ensure that she did not return to her lawbreaking ways, she was fitted with a mystical collar that allows Lethkrik to inflict tremendous pain on her is she should stray. A pragmatist, Throad is resigned to her fate, especially after her first seven escape attempts failed miserably. The great sex and occasional riches help.

CHA-YASI: An elf of a barbarous tribe, tall and slender, with ritual scarring on her arms, a mohawk-and-ponytail haircut, and a tendency to wear face-paint, Cha-Yasi was being menaced by a band of orcs when the group first met her. Upon being rescued, she declared that she owed them a life-debt and would be joining them. In reality, her people have no such custom, and she joined because she fancied Throad (her primary sex partner). She's a bit of a hothead, but has a silver tongue that help's get her out of trouble. She's also a pretty kickass fighter, both with a spear and javelins (she's not a big fan of bows).

INGRA and SIGRA: Identical twin dwarves, they can only be told apart by the fact that Ingra wears a gold bracelet on her right wrist and steel bracelet on the other, while Sigra wears vice versa. Lovers since their youth (not a taboo in their culture), the boisterous pair follow a long family tradition of working as mercenaries, and got hired as extra muscle for a particular quest. Enjoying both the company and the action along the way, they decided to sign on with the Sisterhood permanently.

The members of the Dominael's Darers all wear gold D-shaped earrings and are as follows:

DOMINAEL: An angel, tall, sleekly muscular, and curvy, Dominael was meant to punish the wicked, a task she carries out with dedication and relish. It does not stop her from being an unabashed hedonist, always seeking sex, wine, and shiny things. A skillful warrior (and dominatrix) and a powerful spellcaster, she leads the Darers with an iron fist, and allows nothing to stand between her and what she wants.

VRAXA: A classic demoness (horns, red skin, etc.) with a gloriously voluptuous body, Vraxa spent centuries using her beauty and skill at seduction to wrap folk around her little finger and incite them to evil before breaking their hearts and condemning them to despair...until she ran into Dominael. The angelic dominatrix defeated the demoness, took her captive, and systematically broke Vraxa's will. Now a totally obedient and loving it, Vraxa lives to serve her captor in any way the hedonistic angel desires. This does not make her any less fierce in combat, and anyone who mistakes her subservience for weakness will soon find themselves in her belly. While acting primarily as Dominael's servant and plaything, she also serves the other Darers albeit with less devotion, and only after Dominael permits. She always wears a leashed collar and mostly cosmetic chains.

HEDDA: A halfling cutpurse and prostitute, Hedda had the misfortune to try to steal from Dominael. Fortunately for Hedda, Dominael was growing temporarily tired of Vraxa and agreed to let Hedda live on the condition that she take the demoness' place as Dominael's bedwarmer. While at first understandably unhappy with her situation, Hedda eventually fell in love with the adventuring lifestyle, and came to accept it. Fear of ending up like Vraxa or worse, combined with the love of Rugar (see below), have helped in that regard.

SEZISSE: A lithe yet busty naga (a six-armed humanoid who is a serpent from the thighs down), highly skilled in swordplay, Sezisse was the hereditary guardian of an enormous diamond. Since this required her to stay in one place her whole life, Sezisse hated this, but duty was duty. When it was stolen, mostly because of her apathy about defending it, she happily set out after the thief. Said thief was subsequently slain by Dominael who took the diamond for herself. When Sezisse caught up with it, Dominael refused to part with it, causing Sezisse to attempt . She lost, but liking her looks and impressed by her skill, Dominael offer to let her live and suggested that she could continue to guard the diamond if she joined the group, Not particularly eager to die, and realizing that she now had a chance to see the world, Sezisse accepted.

RUGAR: A yeti (a very tall, very muscular humanoid with overly-long arms, slightly ape-like facial features, large hand-like feet, covered everywhere except the face, ears, chest, crotch, buttocks, fingers, palms, toes, and soles with shaggy white hair), Rugar dwelt in isolation as a hermit on a snowy mountain, until the day that Hedda, lost in a snowstorm, wound up on her doorstep. Rugar nursed the halfling back to health, and over several months the pair fell in love. Then Dominael showed up, determined to retrieve what she though of as her property. Rugar was all set to fight the angel, but Hedda, fearful of her newfound beloved's safety, convinced her to instead join the group, Rugar still isn't entirely happy about this, but out of love for Hedda and fear of Dominael's wrath she keeps going along with it; despite herself, Rugar also found the lifestyle to be fairly pleasant.