Burourchee
By Garett Moorhouse
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Note! This is a fan contribution. The information may be
contradicted by official material.
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Burourchee is the great Baboon spirit ancestor. Some say that he was a discarded
thought from the great trickster spirit and this may be true, because Burourchee
and his friends and children wander from place to place in a great troupe living
by what they can find or take, drinking and having so much fun that other spirits
are jealouse. Burourchee is the great ancestor of all baboons who revere him and
learn from his example. Very rarely others too may enter the Burourchee tradition,
either through the adoption of an abandoned or lost human child into a baboon family,
or through misapplied worship from vagrant tricksters. Only baboons with shamanic
ancestors may become shaman in this tradition as a shamanic ancestor spirit is
required to act as the shamans fetch.
| Entry Requirements: |
Must have a fetch that can be awakened. Candidates must be Baboons,
from the tribe of their shaman, or be adopted from youth and raised in
the tradition. |
| Mental Abilities: |
Burourchee Tradition Knowledge, Mythology of Burourchee, Treat Disease. |
| Physical Abilities: |
Resist Elements, Identify Plants (by smell). |
| Traditional Spirits: |
Ancestor Spirits (typically provides a skill or personality trait)
Trickster Spirits (typical spirits include Worthless Trade, Run Fast,
Tooth Breaker, Silent And Unseen, Terrifying Visage, Hilarious Prank,
Confuse Intention)
Dry Place Spirits (typical spirits include Sense Danger, Smell Water,
Smell Food, Endurance, Warning Scream, Escape Harm) |
| Special Spirits: |
Find Opportunity, Hide From Chaos, Death Tooth |
| Spirit Allies: |
Magpie Spirits |
| Fetch: |
Shamanic Ancestor spirits |
| Fetishes: |
Baboons typically use body scarring, knots or trinkets tied into their hair
or short wands decorated with the skulls of small animals or colored stones.
Single use spirits are often placed in nuts, or similar convenient small food items. |
| Tradition Secret: |
Channel Great Ancestor (Incarnation ability) |
| Worshipers: |
Baboon tribal members. |
| Other Side: |
After death, worshipers of Burourchee join his troupe in the
"greenest place" where they can do as they wish, and eat and drink
as much as they want, until they irritate Borourchee or become too
drunk and fall back into the world and are reincarnated. |
| Disadvantages: |
The cult of Burourchee is often misunderstood and despised by non-baboons.
Members are seldom accorded the respect due their ability and are typically
treated as menials or ignored altogether. Uz traditionally dislike Burourchee
cultists because they stole Eaters teeth, and Solar/Fire worshippers because
they cheated the lioness out of her mane. |
Special Spirits of the Burourchee Tradition
Find Opportunity
Might: 10w
Burourchee lives with less, and thereby creates the opportunity to survive where other
would not. The Find Opportunity spirit is usually integrated and allows its user to see
an opportunity that nobody else could. Typically the opportunity exists in a person, place,
thing or situation which others have discarded, ignored or overlooked.
Hide From Chaos
Might: 10w
When his master the great spirit Genert was defeated Burourchee took his children and friends
and hid from the chaos in a secret place. Hide From Chaos spirits can be used to hide a living
thing or spirit from creatures of chaos even in plain sight.
Death Tooth
Might: 10w
When the Eater spirit of darkness came to devour Burourchee with death hidden in its teeth he
fooled it by putting a block of truestone wrapped in a fur skin in his sleeping place.
Eater fled howling, leaving his broken teeth behind where they had fallen on the ground,
and so Burourchee took them and put them in his own mouth. The Death Tooth spirit can be used
to augment the edge given by a baboons natural fangs.
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