Editing Bachariko (section)

===Realm of the Anointed King===

The Bloody Man, the Sea King, the Wounded Lord, who rules the southeastern coast between the jungle and the ocean. There are many small fishing villages along the coast but the only harbor city is ruled by the god-king. They harvest the bounty of the ocean, in fishing and trade. Their observatories are also lighthouses, and they trade for lenses and mirrors for them from the Twin Cities of the north. They also trade with the distant archipelago islands of the eastern ocean. The followers of the god-king file their teeth like those of sharks, and go to war in sharkskin armor, armed with sharktooth spears. They have many secrets of blood magic, which they can use to call up monster sharks and set them into a killing frenzy, and also to drive beasts and men into panic from the scent of blood. As the price for these secrets, their ruler bleeds always from a wound that never heals, of which no outsider knows the details for it is the means by which the god-king's new incarnations are identified.

-- by Kakita Kojiro