Barinak

**Barinak** is a small secret village built within the Gloomed Jungles of Aeshanadoor and inhabited entirely by a group of lycanthropes, the Gorgynei.

## **Description**

Barinak is a collection of elaborate tree houses and huts connected by rope bridges and ladders, hidden within the Gloomed Jungles. There is a small central fire pit, surrounded by hide stretchers under canopies of branches and dried leaves. There are small cultivated gardens growing root vegetables including mistfuzz tubers. In the center of the village, just beyond the fire pit, is an oddly carved stone statue.

### **Points of interest**

* Statue of Sahyaadon, the Keeper of the Savage Heart. It is an old, 12-foot tall stone image of a humanoid with three bestial snouts stacked on each other like a fan of jaws howling upwards, back arched and arms outstretched with a heart in one clawed hand and a living sapling in the other.
* A massively wide tree wrapped in chains and manacles, to which those who cannot control their inner beast are chained during the full moon.

## **Society**

While all inhabitants of the village are lycanthropes of various kinds, not all of them are practitioners of hemocraft.

The village has continued to exist by maintaining secrecy as to its location within the jungle.

### **Demographics**

A variety of races inhabit the village, but each inhabitant is also a lycanthrope. Every few months the village accepts a few more lycanthropes that have heard about or been directed to them, but periodically some of the newcomers leave after deciding they don't want to live under the imposed conditions, or lose control of their inner beast and are "put down" by the Gorgynei.

#### **Notable people**

* Annaline, also known as Divaasheela, a human weretiger in her forties, member of its leadership as of 843 PD
* Uther, a human wereboar in his late fifties
* Manad, an orc werepanther
* Tarad Cornei, a gnome lycanthrope who hasn't learned hemocraft
* An unnamed dragonborn werewolf
* An unnamed werebear

## **History**

### **Background**

When Bells Hells encountered them, the Gorgynei had built Barinak five or six years ago. They had been able to reach an agreement with the Court of the Lambent Path to provide patrols of the jungle and maintain the safety of the roads in exchange for coin and permission to continue to live secretly in their village.

#### **"Compulsions" (3x40)**

When Chetney sought out the Gorgynei in the Gloomed Jungles of Aeshanadoor for aid with controlling his lycanthropy, his howling in the jungle at dusk drew the attention of a small patrol of lycanthropes. Their leader, Annaline, escorted the party to their village of Barinak, where they were questioned and eventually accepted. Since their time was limited, Annaline suggested traveling about a day into the jungle to the temple of their god, Sahyaadon.

## **Trivia**

* The word "barinak" is Turkish for "shelter".

## **References**

1. ↑ In 843 PD, the Gorgynei had built Barinak "five or six" years ago.  See "Call of the Wild" (3x41) at 1:29:06.
2. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:38:31.
3. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:35:36.
4. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:16:02.
5. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:29:26.
6. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:39:09.
7. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:42:38.
8. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:25:41.
9. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:38:13.
10. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:17:45.
11. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:38:13.
12. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:40:47.
13. ↑ See "Promise and Potential" (3x22) at 3:01:53.
14. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:20:38.
15. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:08:20.
16. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:10:37.
17. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:34:35.
18. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:19:17.
19. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:03:11.
20. ↑ See "Call of the Wild" (3x41) at 1:29:06.
21. ↑ See "Compulsions" (3x40) at 3:27:11.
22. ↑ See Google Translate.

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