[quote=@Eru Iluvatar]
[@Flagg] You may want to update the description of the Shriekers under the Beastkin types - it ends rather suddenly.
 
I am working on a NS. 

EDIT: Also, I would like to know something more of these Priest-Smiths, mainly the 'Smith' part and their functional role in the Salished Empire. I am thinking potentially about using one, having noticed his orders' slipping control and thus having fled prematurely with the intention of forming his own 'nation' (unless of course you won't allow this, in which case I will pursue an alternative).
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The Priest-Smiths are a monastic order that is responsible for binding souls into swords made of fabled soulsteel. The Tyshaled Hamalvod - soul knights - carry soulsteel swords, weapons forged in the ashes imbued with a 'potent' soul. The art of making a soulsteel is a grisly affair, for it involves casting a person whose soul is deemed strong and pure into a furnace-altar, where their body is rendered into ash and thereby releasing their soul into the weapon. Soulsteel is reported to be far stronger than mundane steel, capable of rending armor and holding a razor-sharp edge through numerous battles. It is likely that this quasi-sacrificial ritual stems from the cults of the early Saliszi Dynasties, when the wildmen who became the Salished conducted burnt offerings as sacrifices to their ancient pantheon.