Moving/Humanoids/Ĭlvz/Hov/Red Hoijru

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* DND: Ancestral Guardian Barbarian, & Warlocks
* Make me Real by She
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* The Board from Control
* Avatar past lives from Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Legend of Korra
* Past lives within 'One for All' from My Hero Academia

## General

### Intro

The clan of the Red Hydra. This is a specific race of the Hov that is linked by a collective curse. When one of the Hydra die, their spirit will join an ever growing amalgam instead going through the cycle of becoming a shadow and then moving onto the spiritual plane. Over the generations, this clan has studied their curse and have mastered it, turning into a tool for their benefit instead of a source of torment. This utility, described most simply, is that the dead of the clan can be called upon to lend aid to those still living.

### Nature of the Curse

The reason why this phenomenon is described as a curse, is because that is what it's original purpose was, and it was effective at it, for a time. The origin of the curse happened when a powerful being massacred a town of people, leaving one of them alive. The being forcibly took the souls of the dead, mashed them together into a singular entity, and then linked that new entity to the last living individual of the town. The new entity was an abomination of pain which bore down on the individual's mind and soul.

When together, the souls are completely insane, volatile and violent. However, with skill, singular souls can be temporarily extracted out from the amalgam, and brought into the individual. When this happens, the soul regains its sanity and can aid the individual with their knowledge, skill, and magical power. More than one soul can be extracted and brought into the individual at once, but the more that are taken for this, the more insane, volatile and violent the souls will become. This is because they have a strong negative reaction to being close together, which becomes more powerful the more there are within a certain distance. The amalgam itself stays together due to the permanent sort of magnetic attraction that they have to each other. This was part of the original curse, them being artificially brought together, and being stuck that way if not for intervention.

### Clan History

The burden of the curse grows and wanes in proportion of the ratio of dead souls to living souls. So the burden was greatest at its start, with a whole towns worth of souls weighing down on a single living soul. However, the first persevered, and had a family. As the generations came and went, the curse became relatively less burdensome as it was spread thinner and thinner amongst an ever growing clan. Then came the second bottleneck. This was a second massacre that happened, though this time due to a betrayal within the clan. The clan was brought down to just two individuals remaining. The one who betrayed, and an outcast who survived due to luck. This is the legend of the Dark Wing and the Matriarch.

The one known as the Dark Wing, their name is Felleti Vertogu

## Hierarchy / Titles

### Red Death

There is a single individual with the title of Red Death within the clan. This title is passed along either when the current Red Death dies, or when they lose in a ritual duel against another of the clan, who will then take the title. The Red Death is the champion of the clan, their strongest most capable warrior.

### Heads

There are nine heads within the clan, these act as leaders for the different divisions within the clan. They also act as a sort of collective council.

### Blood

The blood of the Hydra are the craftsmen, farmers, and such that act as the foundation for society.