Nov 2, 2016 9:07 pm
"Ah, the Golden Worm," Martjan says. "I was four or five, I think, when that all happened, but I remember it well -- my parents were scared out of their wits that they'd come for us. It was such a strange affair. The head of the Chirurgeon's Guild started preaching in the streets, saying he'd gone for a walk deep into the woods and encountered a great golden worm that sent him visions, and the long and short of it was that the Mezians and their gods were going to destroy Bload, that we never should have been allowed in, and that native Bloaders needed to rise up and drive us out. And his sect grew and grew, and then there were murders, and then one night there was a march on the New Temple District, and there was killing in the streets, and many homes and temples were burned.
"But, that was as bad as it got. Their prophet died in the riots that night, and within a year the remaining leaders of the sect were rounded up, and many of its followers quietly went back to their normal lives."
"But, that was as bad as it got. Their prophet died in the riots that night, and within a year the remaining leaders of the sect were rounded up, and many of its followers quietly went back to their normal lives."
