Tag: wunjabrot

Oooooh yes, yes I have.

Before I became Queen, before I even joined Athrenna’s guard, Brombe got his job within Wunja’s temple. Because we knew him, we could visit inside and even glimpse at the God in the distance. I was on my way down the hazy, melting heat of the city when I turned a corner and there he was. I was still so very far away from him, but he was massive, singing to himself as he worked. I thought his singing was the entire workforce singing, but it was just him. With every strike of his hammer, the ground shook a little. 

How aaanyone slept in this temple was beyond me. The ‘temple’ was like a town in of itself, gated off and built into the mountain. Workers lived there, like Brombe, but how anyone would stand it baffles me. 

I spoke briefly with Wunjabrot, when I became Queen. He greeted me, welcoming me as if he were my grandfather. Everything about him feels wholesome, even if he’s giant. But the first time I saw him left such an impact on me. Meeting any God is an experience that is hard to explain, but it’s an immense honor.

However, his temple has been locked from the inside, like all the temples. Possibly the priests and priestesses took as many survivors into the temples and locked them in, but I have not found out a way to enter any of them safely. I attempted once with Cynder… and we barely escaped with our lives. The spirits trapped in the temples are far, far worse than any of the ones walking the streets. They seem impossible to disperse, so I haven’t sent another team to try. The Castle, so far, is the only place in Kurosia that is safe enough to travel.

 As far as I know he’s still within, sleeping.
~Lost Queen

Did your people use some sort of magic to melt Kuronium? Or was it something that only needed high temperatures?

Lost Queen : Your first guess was correct, actually. Dark magic and unique malevolent fire of some sort (like shadow fire, aura fire…there’s lots of different types of fire) was traditionally used to hone Kuronium. The smithing done in Kurosia was the best, most advanced forms of this, as we had the blacksmiths (that often doubled as priests and priestesses for Wunjabrot, our blacksmithing god) that could sing the prayers needed for Wunjabrot to bless the metal, making it powerful and the most magical. It’s still possible to smelt our metal other ways, but it’s often not as strong as Wunjin-honed Kuronium. The metals I have now aren’t as strong as they once were, as Wunjabrot is… silent, like most of the other Gods.

This is gonna seem like an odd question Lost Queen but if your bones are made of metal, does that mean you’re more susceptible to heat and electricity? Depending about your bones melting point and conductivity.

Lost Queen : Oh not odd at all really, our metal bones have confused other species, but it’s something my people were EXTREMELY proud of. 

Kuronium is one of the most strongest, if not THE strongest metal in the verse. It’s almost impossible to break our bones or even melt them. The way our blacksmiths would melt them down would be to pray to Wunjabrot, the God of Blacksmithing, while using specialized tools and magical fires. How the Arkeyans were able to melt our bones is beyond me, I never stopped to ask them. 

But there are downsides to our bones. If our horns are struck with some materials, or a noise hitting the right pitch, our bones ring and can disable us momentarily. Or permanently, depending on the severity.

During the first years of the Arkeyan betrayal, the Arkeyan Dragon Hunters invented a deadly whistle. It played a frequency that could make our skulls rattle to a point it would make us deaf, blind, and unable to smell or control our bodies. That invention slaughtered many of our people, but the Kuros of the past were able to find out who invented them, killed them, destroyed all instructions to build the whistle, and burned the city. I have never heard or have seen this whistle in my lifetime, but I’m very glad I haven’t.