Editing Setting:Tabula Gloria/Uralaya/The Alkhani People (section)

=The Currency of Blood=
So just how do the Alkhani manage to communicate with the very Forest in which they fear? A tribesman makes a visceral pact with the tree in which they seek knowledge from by first carving out a small piece of the tree and extracting some of its sap. He then ingests the sap and experiences a vivid hallucination, describing a threat whose blood the tree desires. At this point, the tribesman goes out and takes care of the threat and returns with the blood in question. Splashing the crimson nectar upon the tree's roots, the sap-drinking ritual is repeated, this time accompanied by a vision which details the knowledge desired by the tribesman. Afterwards, the tribesman chews up some wood into pulp, filling the hole which was bored into the tree as an apology for the wound it caused for the ritual.

Of course, the targets in question varies by both the tree as well as the type of information requested. It may be as simple as culling a number of species growing too large in population. It may be as difficult as slaying one's own progeny to fulfill an ancient grudge the tribesman has never been a part of. But the rewards are usually worth the cost, as the Alkhani are able to evade the paths of the more dangerous fare, such as the aptly-named '''Uralaya Titans''' as well as the reptilian, constantly hunting '''Thrusks'''.