![]() ![]() These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. This coalition of renegade Apparitions has taken advantage of the ignorance and arrogance of Stygian agents and has been growing stronger over time, admitting into its ranks all those who are marginalized by the standards of the Regency Power that has been installed in the region, especially since the Third Great Maelstron. The Dark Kingdom of Ticum is relatively recent and emerged only after European colonization, from the fragments of Dark Kingdoms of different indigenous cultures that were decimated by colonization and that joined the souls of African origin and their descendants enslaved in Brazil, who preferred remain attached to this land rather than head to the Dark Kingdom of Ivory in Africa. However, extracting such raw material is costly and causes pain and suffering to those who are willing to do so, so that the demand for Ticum is never completely met, in addition, objects and weapons made from Ticum are inferior in quality to those derived from forges. Ticum Wraiths disavow the use of souls to forge objects, instead using the Ticum that grows on the banks of the Black River, on the edge of the Maze in the Underworld, as raw material. However, the Dark Kingdom of Ticum is an alliance of Wraiths considered Heretics and Renegades by Stygia, organizing themselves in Mocambos hidden within the Tempest that plagues the Underworld, and who resist the oppression of the Hierarchy under the blessing of ancient indigenous deities and the Orixás from Afro-Brazilian traditions, whom they call “Ancestral Spirits”. They are rigidly organized into Legions, true armies of ghosts that expand the Hierarchy's domain in the Underworld, while harvesting the souls of Newcomers to transform them into raw material for weapons and objects in general in their soul forges. In the scenario of Wraith: The Oblivion, the world of the dead is hegemonized by the Hierarchy of Stygia, which is inspired both by the Roman Empire and by medieval Christian Europe. This was the truth until the mythical Rupture of the Tucumã Nut, when all the evils that hide in the darkness were released on the Creation of Yamandu and an abyss opened in the reverse of the World, swallowing into Oblivion everything that exists, existed or will exist, giving rise to the River Below, the Underworld. In immemorial times the spirits of the dead native to South America resurfaced in the Deep, the Invisible Domains, in the form of animals that represented ancestral totems or mere reflections of the most intimate nature of the dead in question, such ancestral souls headed Upstream to the Ancestral Lands of the different indigenous peoples, in the Domains of the Great Natural Spirits, among which the most revered were Kwaraci, Yaci, Akuanduba and Boiaçu, the latter also known as Dambalá Uedó in Afro-Brazilian traditions.
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