That curse story is what the ducks say, but we humans don't believe it. The truth was that a tribe of humans venerated their domestic fowl instead of their ancestors and were cursed most horribly for it. Believe it or not, a handful of flying humakti ducks slaughtered an entire company of Lunars. That is why they are now outlawed and you can collect 50L per duck head from the loonies.
MOROKANTH A race of intelligent beasts, looking a bit like tapirs,
> that herd beast-men as food animals.
I would mention that they are quite large, at least as big as a black bear.
> BROO A race of chaos, they spread destruction and pestilence
> wherever they go. The Lunars have put a bounty on broo heads.
AKA the Goatkin.
> ELF Dwellers of forests, they kill anything and anyone venturing
> into their forests without permission. They have little contact
> with the outside world apart from this. A group of elves lives in
> the Garden in the south of the Big Rubble.
They have forgotten that Pavis built his city for elf and human alike, as the dwarfs have also forgotten that Flintnail was half-human.
> PAVIS The god that was Pavis Half-Elven and now is the spirit of the
> city of Pavis.
> FLINTNAIL Half-dwarven friend of Pavis, Flintnail is a god of
> dwarves and stonemasons.
That's all you say about the god of the city and his sidekick? IMO most pavisites worship Pavis primarily, and Orlanth to a much lesser degree. Especially since Orlanth worship has been semi-criminalized. I'd turn down the pro-Orlanthi tone in the rest of the background so that the players don't reflexively think you expect them to lead a popular uprising against the Lunar forces. If the city was as rabidly Orlanthi as this background presents it the city would be constantly in revolt, and would certainly not need any rebellious Windlords to spark an uprising.
> Pavic attitudes to Lunars
> "The Lunars have embraced the world-destroying Chaos, and are
> engaged in a battle of annihilation with Orlanth, our god. They
> have invaded our home and defiled our temples. But they are strong,
> and swiftly crush any dissent. On the other hand, they have brought
> some law to the plains of Prax, and their army needs supplies, for
> which they pay generously in silver and jobs."
This sounds ludicrous to me. "The lunars are evil servants of chaos, but they are too tough to fight, and they buy lots of stuff, so we just sit here for years and wait to be eaten by the Crimson Bat." See the problem? I think the popular attitude is vastly less anti-lunar than the rabid Orlanthi attitude you have expressed here.
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