{"id":6583,"date":"2019-07-30T20:49:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T00:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/?p=6583"},"modified":"2019-07-30T20:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T00:49:28","slug":"the-iguk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glyphpress.com\/talk\/2019\/the-iguk","title":{"rendered":"The Iguk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Iguk is one of the monsters listed in The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze. It guards the opal skeleton of Yog Shul and is duty-bound to return any piece stolen. To accomplish its task, it is thus blessed: that it may never be killed the same way twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Each time it dies, it returns in a new form to pursue the thief.
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But The Iguk is not only a beast of duty. It is also a beast of pride. Each time it returns the stolen treasure, it also brings back a trophy that it displays with pride in the now-collapsed tomb of Yog Shul. Skulls of the wise. Fingers of archers. Mighty arms, still grasping bronze blunted on The Iguk\u2019s tough hide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to read the rest of the chapter, The Monsters \u2014 as well as future chapters of The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze, please back the xenoglyph Patreon\u00a0<\/a>as the book comes into existence!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Modular systems are a function of industrial society. But do people of The Fifth World still know how to agree to standards? With their acute interest in efficiency, I think they might have carried that lesson forward!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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