Exalted: Stilt Walker Village

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A village on the shores of ____ lake, situated on a deep swamp, the village is formed around a log pier with houses on platforms 1-2 metres above the surface of the water. The swamp makes them almost unassailable from the outside and is quite bountiful providing fruits, vegetables, swamp rice and numerous creatures to eat, as well as plenty of bamboo and medicinal herbs. But the villages have an almost superstitious aversion to touching the ground with their feet. Outside their homes they wear 2-4 wooden stilts which they use to move around the swamp and are quite adept at hunting and harvesting with them. The local god is Igappo, the all consuming maw which is also the creature beneath the village. A sarlac-like creature that occupies the lowest watery part of the swamp and has numerous large tentacles which it uses to draw things down into its vast lamprey-like mouth. Anything that goes beneath the water of the swamp is a sacrifice to Igappo, and anything that protrudes from the swamp is a gift from Igappo, according to the lore of the village.

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