The Temple of the Exploding Head

The Tribe of Vith and the history of the League are nearly one in the same, going back hundreds of thousands of years. Tall and Blue, the Vith were the original tribe of the League, the original Sisters were Vith. The first Ex-Commons of the League was mostly composed of Vith Houses, and, in the modern day, most of the enemy Xaphan Houses owe their ancestry to the Vith.

HISTORY:

In the old days of the Elders, the Vith acted as their right hand. They flew the cosmos and scouted the heavens for the Elders. When required, they fought the Elder’s battles. For ages, only the austere Vith sect known as the Sisterhood of Light could communicate with the Elders.

Upon arriving at Kana at the beginning of the EX Time Epoch, the other six tribes branched off and differentiated themselves from the Vith and spread out over the rest of the planet leaving the cold north to the core Vith, thus came the beginnings of the League.

THE HAITATHE HORDES:

In the early days of the EX, the Elders introduced a savage and giant-sized alien race to Kana, hoping to strengthen the Vith bloodlines and enlarge them in size. Unfortunately, the hermaphroditic Haitathe Hordes turned on the League and waged near constant war on the Vith, hoping to both enslave and devour them. In later centuries, the Haitathe would turn to the east and attack the Tribe of Esther.

GIFTS OF THE MIND:

As the Vith suffered under the lash of the Haitathe, The Elders realized they had made a grave error in introducing the Haitathe to Kana. In order to strengthen the Vith, the Elders bestowed upon them six Gifts of the Mind. These powerful Gifts (Strength, Waft, Cloak, Dirge, Stare, Sight) indeed saved the Vith and allowed them fight back against the Haitathe and turn them from the north. The Elders marked the old Vith with the Gifts Blue, with blue hair, eyes and skin. The other tribes greatly desired the Gifts of the Mind and attempted to marry into the Vith to acquire them via genetics. Vith lacking the Gifts became known as Cyans.

THE HEROES OF THE VITH:

Some of the greatest heroes of Vith antiquity emerged during this time with the Haitathe. The League needed heroes, and the Vith provided them in earnest. There was the mighty Homma of Telmus Falls and his queen, the gigantic Emmira the Swordless. Of their children, Lennibus and Terfal ended the Haitathe influence in the north. Their sister Subra of the Mark was the first Vith female in history to be able to harness Shadow tech. Another of their children became notable for a different reason: Magravine became the infamous Black Abbess, leader of the Black Hat Sisterhood. There was also the famous Holt of the Mountain, a Vith Cyan (no Gifts) who defeated the Haitathe using nothing but guile.

THE SPLENDOR OF THE VITH:

After the Haitathe were defeated and generally removed from Kana, the Vith enjoyed several centuries of unrivaled success. The Vith Households attacked and conquered other non-Vith Households and expanded their influence to out-worlds such as Hoban and Planet Fall. They were flush with their Gifts and became potent with Gellar Magic–as they captured priceless and arcane items for themselves. They became extremely powerful, even more so than the Sisters. They kept their most prized possessions in their great Bowerchests, animated treasure vaults crafted in the shape of great beasts, and the skies over Vithland once shone with their wings and the land trembled with their passing. The Sisters, in concert with the other six tribes, conspired to de-power the Vith, and, over time, were successful and rid Kana of their Bowerchests.

ATTRIBUTES OF THE MODERN VITH:

The Vith are loyal and brave and always eager to meet a challenge. They are honest to a fault and will go to great lengths to keep a promise. They are said to be immune to the cold of the north, and are fearless as well.

They are characteristically tall and lean. The “Blue” traits of the old Vith have mostly been suppressed by inter-marrying with other bloodlines, however Vith blue-eyes and blue hair still exists in some Households. Many Xaphan Households still show the “Blue” traits.

The Vith language for a time was headed to extinction, however modern efforts to bring it back into use has met with success.

Most Vith Households mint their own currency. Vith currency is known as the hader and is usually on-par with SBL solaris.

copyright 2014, Ren Garcia and Carol Phillips