The Book of Temples Chapter 38

The visitors struck at Hand and Knife’s folk. Greedy Noble had them fight. Their Child God declared that they had the right to take what they would with war. Hand and Knife had not prepared her People. They knew nought of violence. The visitors slew with knife, club and axe. Hand and Knife’s People then fled. Six people were dead. On came aggressors to kill all that would not aid. The victims must fight. They had to defend and slay Greedy Noble’s folk. They were weaponless but had a great tool used in their everyday lives. They employed magic in their daily work aside from healing the sick. They used spell wrought fire to cook and craft with and now they burned attackers. They felled trees with spells and fashioned lumber. Now their foes were cut apart. Mending with magic and sewing new clothes, their foes’ skin was stitched and bound. Trees and stones lifted with magic to build, hefting foes high to plummet. Greedy Noble’s folk could not long withstand defenders’ magic onslaught.…