Exalted: Twelve Pillar Village

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Based around the Miraculous Union Demesne in the southernmost region of The Wreckers' Coast, most of the village is built around a large Shogunate era watchtower in a redwood forest. The tower is surrounded by 12 massive white pillars of granite that once probably supported the uppermost part of the tower, and the doors of the tower remain almost impenetrable but the top of the tower has been sheered off somehow. The villagers use its interior floors for meeting areas, markets and sacred places. The village itself, a collection of tree-houses about 10-20 paces off the forest floor, often built between trees to spread the load in tightly knit webs, is slowly rotated around the base of the tower over successive generations to encourage regrowth of the surrounding forest.
The villagers are primarily beastmen, as well as a few human exiles and some Djala descended from the researchers at the Demesne, who survive through hunting and foraging rather than agriculture. The chieftain is a Cat-woman called Watches-Night who oversees the tribe on a day to day basis. A crow beastman, Plunging Feather, is their greatest archer and scout and leads the village in conflict and hunting parties. There is an extended family of djala that are primarily hunters using poison-tipped crossbows. Under the guise of the village shaman, Unbreakable Coil - a New Moon Lunar Exalt & Serpent beastwoman - performs the rituals that keep the place safe and has lived here for about 200 years.
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