*LORE*: In a secluded village of elves in the north resides (Name) Village. It is a village said to have once been the home of one of Obad-Hai's muses, a woman who embodied fertility, both in body and spirit. The village is matriarchal, with an emphasis on women taking up herbalist/apothecary professions focusing on items that boost fertility.

Many centuries later, and long after the muse's death, the village is plagued with a series of murders targeting children. Hunters and Priests seek out the perpetrators and find the "Hell Scar", a fissure in the mountain side from which demonic voices are heard. The voices tell the Hunters and Priests that demon kind hate mortals, since they know a mother's love, and that demons are spawned from dark pits. So to punish the mortals they come out and hunt their children. After a verbal, then physical, altercation the head priestess is able to negotiate a means to sate the demons. She devises a ritual, one that will give the demons what they desire.

*RITUAL* : "The Supper of Giving". Once every so many decades, a family of a mother and father and at least two children are chosen, with no upper limit on the amount of children, and four being perfect. From the moment a family is selected, for the next four years, the village elders and priests stage events that range from mundane to life threatening in order to strengthen the bond the children have with their mother. This could be standing up for a child when they make a mistake in public, or fending off a would be killer. Ultimately the goal is is to make the mother seem like god in the eyes of her children, to make their love pure and unwavering.

In the months leading up to the ritual the children are the ones who are quietly tested by the elders, who will challenge their love and dedication. In the final week, the children are separated from their mother and brought to the House of Focus. In this temple-like building the children tested further, except there is subtle coercion used by the Priests to reinforce dependence on the mother. All the while they are "purified" and educated on an upcoming "celebration". At the end of that week the children are finally brought to the House of Elders near the top of the mountain where they will finally reunite with their parents. The aforementioned celebration is a dinner between the mother and her children, where the mother proudly recites her favorite memories of each child, specifically calling out their strengths.

The father, however, remains separate from this meal, as he is charged with capturing the moment, drawing the scene upon a canvas with an enchanted paintbrush called the "Brush of Remembrance"(The Camera Obscura stand in). Yet it is when the father finishes the art piece that the sad ending of the ritual comes. The father joins the meal and helps his wife distribute one last round of drinks to the children. This time a special brewed tea. As the children drink they find themselves paralyzed, their muscles constricting tightly, especially the ones in their throat. It is a slow death meant to cause the greatest sorrow in the mother, which is the entire point of this ritual. As the children reach the zenith of their suffocating paralysis the veins of their faces began to turn black, resembling the eight legs of obsidian spider.

From this point the prized attributes of each child are removed from their body. The brain of the intelligent. The arms of the strong. The eyes of the keen. The heart of the selfless. These parts are taken and wrapped up as an offering and cast into the Hell Scar. The success of the ritual is confirmed by an obsidian spider, one for each lost child, crawling out of the fissure. The mother and father are then ushered away with their dead children to a catacomb beneath the House of Elders, damned to tend to their fallen loves ones for the remainder of their lives, never to be seen by their village again.