…Yinkin Is A Dog, Stupid!

Animal God In Species Change Shock

Whilst plundering a forgotten, ruined EWF villa a band of adventurers stumbled across a plaster frieze showing the life of Orlanth. Knowing it was valuable the adventurers hacked it off the wall and sold it in Pavis. Here the Lhankor Mhy sages, not short of a brain cell or two, realised that there were very dangerous images of Orlanth with an animal companion and that animal was a dog! Word got out and the inevitable religious riot meant that this valuable piece of knowledge needed to be hidden very far away indeed.

It was sent to the library in Nochet, hundreds of miles away where it was hoped it would be classified, stored and then forgotten about. Stored under the classification "Yinkin.Dog.Discretion-Advised" right next to a statue classified "Yinkin.Not-A-Cat.Very- Dangerous". This previously forgotten artifact, in combination with the plaster frieze set the proverbial dog amongst the pigeons. Lhankor Mhy rites let the sages peer into the past and they had to search far into the past to see meaningful images related to these two objects. The sages used up much of their faith to try to solve this bizarre riddle.

The sages saw the plaster frieze being cast 800 years in the past. The first thing to be noticed was that there were both cats and dogs in the workshop. But this wasn’t unusual that far back in history. The Orlanthi had yet to get militant about dogs, this was already known. The patron speaks briefly to the craftsman and then says to his dog companion "come, cat" and leaves. He calls his dog a cat!. The language of the time was understandable but different much like the way northerners sound different to us and use some different words like shovel instead of the more normal word digging-stick. The sages put it down to mistranslation and tried again with the statue.

Peering into the past of the statue they saw a Sacred Time ceremony and again there were dogs everywhere, no cats and the dog statue of Yinkin in the middle being venerated and looking brand spanking new. Because none of the sages worshipped Yinkin directly they did not see the presence of the god world overlay the sacred area and the participants. All they saw were lots of silly peasants wearing home made costumes prancing about. The sages needed a real life Yinkin devotee, who was open minded (and wouldn’t let the proverbial dog out of the bag) to come and have a look at the past with them. This would not be easy as Yinkin devotees are not known for being open minded especially about dogs. Some especially self sacrificing novices said they would initiate to Yinkin for five or six years just to find out the truth, but this was seen as too dangerous to the novices. Your gods can see into your heart!

Eventually a suitable devotee was found who then showed the sages some curious ceremonial cloth coverings for an animal’s ears (see Appendix IXX). Sadly there was an accidental fire in the library and the two Yinkin Dog artifacts were lost amongst thousands of other irreplaceable bits of knowledge. But they did find out irrefutably that Yinkin is…

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