The Snerk are a race of strange, semi-intelligent animals that live in the tall mountains of northern Adylheim.

Appearance

Snerks look a lot like satyrs, they stand on two backwards-bent legs and have two hands. Their legs end in hooves, whereas their hands have strong eagle-like claws. Their whole body is covered in fur, mostly brown in summers and mostly white in winters. Their head, unlike satyrs' resembles that of deer, with bright yellow eyes and large brown, black or white antlers. Unlike normal deer, snerks don't lose their antlers each year and instead grow them all their life. The loss of an antler results in the snerk going into depression, when he stops eating and therefore dies in a couple of weeks or a few months.

A very small percentage of the population of Adylheim are particularly sensitive to changes in the mood of Adylheim and may see apparitions and portents that others do not, these people are called Sensitives and this article is about them.

This article deals with Sekkumaya, a spiritualistic philosophy that is rather obscure in comparison with the rest of the religious system of Adylheim. It is mainly practiced in the southern fiefdoms, though its monastaries are scattered all throughout the country.

As recited by the bard Petrosius Ulsnesos

Beyond the seas,
Aloft the tallest the mountain,
laid a place sprawling with life
as water in a fountain.

The people had nothing to fear,
no danger ever got near,
the gods protected them like a faithful guard dog
until one child got lost, blind man in the fog.