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Incabulos

Posted: Tue May 02, 2017 6:35 pm
by kFoyauextlH
Incabulos: Initiation through the Eye

Is it a favor to me, or a favor to you?

There are many people who see without seeing, it is said.

What good is a word if it is not caught out? A fish in the sea, remains unknown.

What good is a sea? Man can not traverse it for long, without a vessel.

What good is a vessel upon the sea? To reach other places which are all the same?

So with a net, fish are caught, but decay if not devoured soon, and what results either way is waste, except that the man of the sea on the ship may live a little longer.

Life is not travel, but eating and sh*tting. The seaman does not sh*t in or on the vessel, but back to where the fish was caught, the sea.

Another vessel, may be intent on catching fish, but having followed the ship ahead of it, finds only sh*t to be caught, hawling it onto their boat.

There are some who have only just started to fish, and so they wonder, saying " ah, these must be fish, I have heard they smell bad! "

Now the Eye.

If the Eye were the Sun, and if it were followed, everyday the traveler would turn back, after going forward, and again and again would they move towards it, stand still, then head back, until it is dark again and they rest, resuming their journey the next time the sun rises.

There was a traveler who once climbed a high hill, and having reached the top of it, found that the other side of it went down again. " I was expecting something more "

Like what?

He headed back down, carrying something more profound than he even understood, though it was with him.

Hope is what I was born with. Hope is dispelled by faith dissapointed. You did not leave the peak without a gift.

What? I went up the hill, finding that there is Nothing on the other side but descent or stagnation. The same that I can do up there, I can do down here, which is to be dissapointed.

No need to be so sour, because I have what you may seek.

Initiation through the Eye.

I have never sought it, and why would it be what I seek?

Well what drove you to climb that hill?

It was a desire for something more, something better, it was hope, and then faith, and then dissapointment.

Only Initiation through the Eye can give you that!

How?

All you have to do is be looking for something which you know.

What do you mean?

​​​​​Do you have any food allergies?

Not that I know of.

Well pretend that you did, so that Soy was of interest to you. Wouldn't you look for it and become keen on identifying it?

Yes, I guess so, only to survive.

Why do you wish to live?

I don't know, I suppose I don't.

Do you think that death is better than life?

No.

What is death?

I don't know, nothing I suppose.

Same that you found up on the Hill?

No, on the Hill there was nothing of particular interest.

And in Death?

I suppose Nothing.

Nothing of particular interest?

Even less.

Even worse?

I can't say.

A hill is more comforting, since you can come down again, would you seek confinement from which there is no return or the risk of such?

No.

Even if it differs from this state of life as it is?

Yes, this life is at least something, more to do.

Why do anything?

​​​​I don't know, just because it is better than nothing.

​​​​​​How do you feel when you have nothing to do?

Bored, listless, restless.

No​​​​t relaxed?

Not for long.

So you are craving something.

I suppose so.

What is it you are craving?

I don't know, something.

Anything?

Most things don't seem good enough.

Can you think of anything that does seem good enough?

Something important.

Like identifying soy in order to live?

This reminds me of the hill.

Do you want to die?

Do you want me to die?

That is a good question, but it depends on what you say next. Do you wish to be Initiated through the Eye?

No, I will find my own way in life, I don't need to play your games. Now how do you like me?

I never did.

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Well, he didn't go for it, how about you?

Re: Incabulos: Initiation through the Eye

Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2025 9:39 am
by kFoyauextlH
https://greyhawkonline.com/greyhawkwiki/Incabulos

https://greyhawkery.blogspot.com/2017/0 ... d.html?m=1

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Sunday, January 29, 2017
Greyhawk and Undead

I thoroughly enjoyed the response to my Greyhawk zombie outbreak article last week, and I hope to do more articles tied to maps again. Anyhow, today I'd like to follow that up with some commentary on what I see as an intriguing theme within the setting, and that is the prevalence of undead in the Flanaess (nevermind the abundance of demons). Perhaps I've always known this but never really pondered it until I took the zombie apocalypse to an extreme and then combined that with a lich article I did recently. When you look across the breadth of Greyhawk canon, undead are everywhere.

Iuz the Evil, City of Skulls, The Marklands: The Empire of Iuz is rife with typical orcs, goblins, ogres and yes demons, but the forefront of his battle lines is skeleton and zombie armies raised by his clerics. Iuz's symbol is a grinning skull, and his capital Dorakaa is "the City of Skulls", yet he is a demigod of evil, deceit and pain, not implicitly a death god. The fact he employs demons makes sense given his parentage, so mastery of the undead is something he must've learned on his own. Iuz's other necromantic feats include the unholy bone road, bone constructs like the Thassaloss and various magical skulls, wands and staves of necromancy used by his Boneheart henchmen. All this undeath in his culture makes me wonder why humanoids dare work for him.

Ivid the Undying, From the Ashes, Greyhawk Wars, etc.: House Naelax were once known for treating with demons, but once Ivid was turned into an animus, the fractured Great Kingdom went total undead theme. Death Knights suddenly are part of the fabric of Aerdy's history as well, though they are created by a demon prince, Demogorgon, and not Orcus as you'd assume (some kind of demon-undead feedback loop).

White Plume Mountain, Tomb of Horrors, Ravenloft, Crypt of Lyzandred the Mad, Vecna Lives, etc.: Liches as I've presented earlier are heavily invested in the Flanaess. Vecna and Acererak are the prime candidates, but others inhabit Oerth or once did such as Azalin the main rival of Strahd from Ravenloft and Dragotha the dracolich. They are everywhere in every corner of the Flanaess and beyond.

Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, Iuz the Evil, Vecna Lives, White Plume Mountain, etc.: Vampires aren't as prevalent n Greyhawk, and that's a relief since powerful undead are in such numbers. The vampires we do see such as Kas, Drelnza or Maskelyne could definitely spread their kind if they chose to. I may explore that possibility later.

Age of Worms, Greyhawk Boxed Set, Greyhawk Ruins, City of Greyhawk Boxed Set: As I demonstrated in my zombie outbreak article, Kyuss alone has the chops to spread undead across the continent. There are other deities besides Kyuss, Vecna and Iuz doing this. Nerull the acutal god of death has followers everywhere like the Horned Society, the North Province and hiding in places like the City of Greyhawk and Greyhawk Ruins. Other gods of evil like Incabulos surely has undead components, Hextor god of war is responsible for the creation of the animus. Then there is Wee Jas, goddess of death and magic. Luckily she doesn't seem concerned with undeath.

Other minor mentions to make; there is haunted hills and graveyards galore in the Flanaess. Ghouls worshiping Yeenoghu are known. The Ghost Tower of Inverness is particularly grim. And I'm not even prepared to speculate on undead in the Temple of Elemental Evil and Maure Castle. Basically, the World of Greyhawk is one more major deity or lich away from being the World of Darkness (trademark). Throw demons, devils and Tharizdun cultists into the mix and this setting is much, much, MUCH more evil than Ravenloft.

grodogJanuary 30, 2017 at 12:18 AM
A well-thought post, Mike! Someone was just asking about how many liches were in GH over on Dragonsfoot @ http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewt ... 33&t=76187 and I did a quick cut/paste from Jason Zavoda's index:


Acererak {Devourer}(Lich)(Male)[NPC]
Asberdies (Lich)[NPC]
Azalin (Lich)[NPC]
Dahlvier (Count)(Lich)[M18][3eM18][NPC]
Drokkas (Lich)[NPC]
Haas'Baalbar (Lich)[NPC]
Hathamriz (Lich)[NPC]
Imprimus (Smirtch the Gloam)(Lich)[NPC]
Karzalin (Lich)[M18][NPC]
Krakev (Lich)[NPC]
Lerrek (Lich)[C19][NPC]
Lyzandred (Lich)[NPC]
Ranial (Lich)[NPC]
Rexifer (Lich)[NPC]
Vecna {Chained God}{Dying King}{Maimed Lord}{Whispered One}
Zhawar Orlysse (Lich)[M25][NPC]

Also these, while likely not quite what you had in mind, might be worth considering too:

Kuntz's Demonic Knights of Doom from Dragon #59

Darkstar (Dracolich)[NPC]
Dragotha (Dracolich)[NPC]
Gloomwhisper (Dracolich)[NPC]

Maerynae {Merynae}(Marquess)(Suel Lich)[M17][NPC]

Delglath {Delgath}(Animus)[C13][3eC17][NPC]
Drax The Invulnerable (Animus)[3eM11/F3][NPC]
Ivid V {Irvid}(The Undying)[M13][NPC]
Kalreth (Kalraith)(General)(Animus)[F15][NPC]

Andromansis (Death Knight)[3eM15/F5][NPC]
Farian (Sir)(Death Knight)[NPC]
Kargoth (Sir)(Saint)(Half-Fiend)(Death Knight)[3ePal8/Blk10][NPC]
Khayven (Death Knight)[3ePal7/Blk10][NPC]
Lorana Kath (Death Knight)[3eC16][NPC]
Luren (Death Knight)[3eF18][NPC]
Maeril (Sir)(Death Knight)[3eF12/Rog4][NPC]
Minar Syrric (Death Knight)[3eBrd12/F3][NPC]
Monduiz Dephaar (Death Knight)[F18][NPC]
Myrhal (Death Knight)[3eF15][NPC]
Oslan Knarren (death Knight)[3ePal5/Blk8][NPC]
Rezinar (Death Knight)[3eF12][NPC]
Thyrian (Death Knight)[3eF14][NPC]
Urkar Grasz (Death Knight)[3eC11/F4][NPC]

That's a lot of lich or lich-like creatures running around!

Allan.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubation_(ritual)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_incubation

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/issue ... -religion/

https://www.enworld.org/threads/tell-me ... wk.199797/

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Evil in Greyhawk is personified. Evil has faces and names attached to it that ring down through the setting's history. It is not an evil that pops up purely to give the players something to strive against and defeat before moving on to the next evil that similarly appears out of relative nowhere.

Vecna, Iuz, Lolth, Tharzidun, the Scarlet Brotherhood, Aerdi, Kas, even Turrosh Mak, all met this criteria. They are highly personified forces that spring from the settings specific history. By comparison, evil in the Forgotten Realms is of the pop-up variety save for the Red Wizards and Zhentrim. Menaces appear from nowhere or with on the spot histories that never before appeared in the setting. Greyhawk allows for this type of toaster villainy but it also established from the first villains of a historic character that transcend the needs of the adventure of the moment.
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I put that one here for the image having similar elements to obe of the figures in the pictures linked here from the statue, but I dislike messy blurgh krkrkrk sound stuff like that, and I'm shocked people can make careers apparently out of any kind of stuff, like stuff I consider just banging on instruments and yelling like jerks. I dislike all assaults, including displeasing sensory assaults.

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Re: Incabulos

Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2025 9:19 pm
by kFoyauextlH
I want to quickly note here that my dream recently had these numbers

9
9
9
9
9
9
9
6
8
8
8
8
8
8
8
8

So

9x7=63
8×8=64
=127
+6=133

These numbers were attached to files or folders, where files with nothing in them were a blank white square ixon like a piece of paper and deleted. These files seemed to be titled in some way to do with religioys and histotical, cultural content, moral content.

My phone is still not functioning snd I have not purchased a replacement yet. I have another set of tasks at hsnd also, like trying to get some refunds and replacements for things. It is very Fall-like here now, so with the leaves having changed color and falling, and a lot of rain, as it is raining now as well. It is my favorite time of the year possibly.

I don't feel all that great consistently though, and it may be an overload of looming tasks and concerns weighing me down.

I saw two silly films the other night. One was a pilot for a television show called Frankenstein which was pretty weird in how it flowed and it seems like it was made by Europeans or something, where dialogue was almost just sound. It was full of cliche shots. Then I saw a film called Cursed by Wes Craven.

Re: Incabulos

Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:21 am
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