Marrangha is one of the most infamous and reviled forms of Black Magic, used since time immemorial for the creation of new and inevitably twisted forms of life.[1]
Marrangha is regarded with horror in most Allansian communities, and known practitioners are either exiled or killed.[1] Some creatures are well known for being Marrangha Creatures, but many other races are widely suspected to be the direct result of Marrangha experiments, such as Rhino-Men, Cat People, Dog-Apes, Ape-Dogs and Spider-Men, that are considered amongst the most successful races crafted as the result of its use. Usually, the victims of Marrangha end up as Mutes: little more than quivering piles of flesh and bone, screaming for their miserable lives to be ended ... if they can scream at all. However, they can be still put at some use due to the fear that their painful wailing can cause. [2]
This dark art has become even more notorious in recent years owing to its widespread practice among the witches of Dree and by its most unholy practitioner's obsession with it - Zharradan Marr, who even took his name from it. Indeed, Marr has been the most active of all wizards in pursuing the perfection of this foul art, with some saying that he has successfully crafted the perfect warrior-organism, though it is suspected that the Caarth have also become extremely proficient at its use.
The Sisters of Sheena carried out marrangha experiments on luckless prisoners in the Black Tower.[3] Balthus Dire owned books about marrangha, but it is not known if he actually practiced this form of magic.[4]
The Evil wizard Xakhaz is arguably a very skilled practitioner of marrangha as well.[5]
Further Notes[]
- According to one source, Marrangha was the name of a mysterious, evil magician, a renegade of the Netherworld Sorcerers. He practiced evil magic involving mixing and warping different creatures of different species, and the type of magic was named after him. Marrangha did these experiences in what is approximately the location of current Mauristatia, not far from Lake Lumlé, shortly after the Splitting of Irritaria. He had two daughters: Alaralamalatana and Alaralatanalara, one good and the other evil, but nobody remembers which was which, and one of them killed her father and burnt his books, so that his father's disciples never managed to control again her father's eponymous, evil magic art. Who killed her father: the good daughter or the evil daughter?[6]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Creature of Havoc - pgs. 15-17, para 134; The Trolltooth Wars - p.??
- ↑ The Citadel of Chaos - ???; The Trolltooth Wars - p.??
- ↑ Citadel of Chaos (AFF) - pg. 78
- ↑ Citadel of Chaos (AFF) - pg. 105
- ↑ Beneath Nightmare Castle - 18, 22, 29, 56, 77, 83 (stats), 100, 134, 140, 150, 163, 167 (stats), 169, 174, 180, 201, 211, 247, 257, 271, 276, 310, 313, 338, 365, 381, 389 (illustrated), 400
- ↑ "A History of Mauristatia" by Otto Öviszódi in The Warlock Returns Issue 2, (pg. 25).