Tortog Religious History Part 5:
Tog Cannibal Abominations:
This is basic cannibalism, and has been a thing on and off throughout Tog prehistory. Because of the way that Tog regeneration works, a Tog that consumes the hearts of other Togs is able to heal at a greatly accelerated rate, and gains muscle mass faster too. This comes at the cost of similarly accelerated aging and stress on all of the body's systems and functions. A healthy Tog will usually live to the age of 70-90 years old, but a Togedotog is guaranteed to not reach 40, even ignoring violent death. Togedotogism is often identifiable by a large gap between the pectoral scutes, caused by the body gaining mass faster than the scutes grow.
Togs consider blood-drinking a much different act than Togedotogism. Togs can drink the blood of a healthy/better-fed Tog to help recover from an illness or injury, and that features in a lot of folk/frontier medicine without any stigma or side-effects.
The Sphere Cult that predated the Contogs used a special surgical procedure to fill a devout warrior with extra hearts taken from Tog sacrifices. This allowed the warrior to become extraordinarily large, strong, and durable to be used as a weapon during great battles. This is said to have given the engorged warrior an insatiable appetite, a soaring fever, and a faint inner glow. Often Sun Warriors would eventually spontaneously combust on the battlefield, but if they survived, they would be provided a massive pyre with which to euthanize themselves as their continued existence was extremely painful.
During the late Contog Empire, the Toggnan Surcon began building experimental corpse constructs called Sur-Gntog. They were over twice the height of the average Tog, with long limbs, and a head high out of reach of most enemy melee weapons. They had a second pair of eyes in their groin area to prevent normal-sized Togs from sneaking past or outmaneuvering them.
These were developed in secret, and even when they were finally allowed to be seen by the other Contogs, the exact nature of the monsters was closely concealed. The Toggnan Surcon made increasing numbers of Sur-Gntog during the Wet Fire plague, and eventually used this army to help them seize control of the great cities from the weakened Toggnan Panopticon.
During and after the Torist sieges, many Sur-Gntog survived and stalked the sewers and streets of the ruined cities as feral predators. Due to Torist monster slayers hunting them, and lacking any means of reproduction, the Sur-Gntog inevitably and thankfully were completely extinct within a few decades of the sieges.
During the sieges, the Toggnan Surcon began to also field less resource-intensive abominations called Sur-Zuvtog. These were simply decapitated corpses reanimated with a jar of specially cultivated nerve tissue. They obeyed the simple commands of their makers, but were very stupid, lacking even the predatory instincts of the Sur-Gntog. They would typically beeline unfamiliar organisms and bash them with their arms, which is why the Toggnan Surcon often replaced their hands with blades and spikes.
Sur-Zuvtog quickly died off without a Surtog maintaining them, and rarely became feral, but they were a common tool of the Cannibal Witches, and saw heavy use in the Witch Wars.
Sur-Gncon/ Togedocon/ Armor Hearts/ Cannibal Kings:
After the successes building the Sur-Gntog, the Toggnan Surcon secretly began to improve themselves with similar techniques. The first of these was the Sur-Gncong Cong Toggnan Surcon, who had feigned death to modify themself in secret. They revealed themself during their coup against the Toggnan Panopticon, and soon afterwards the rest of the Toggnan Surcon began undergoing their own metamorphoses.
Among the modifications they made were elongated limbs, duplicated hearts, an armored case around their hearts, metal plates in the bones of their skull, metal reinforcements on their limb bones, and alterations improving their eyesight.
Following the sieges of the great cities and the collapse of the Contog Empire, many Sur-Gncon escaped into the wilderness. They continued their medical experiments however they could, and many formed pacts with Togedotog, WeRo, and corrupt Torist warlords, trading dark knowledge and surgeries for protection and concealment.
Some were able to openly rule Togedotog regions for decades after the collapse of the Contog Empire. By taking advantage of the violent nature, low intelligence, and short lifespans of the Togedotogs to quickly position themselves at the head of the tribes, they could completely reorder these lesser cannibals into a zealous cult. With their medical knowledge they could organize and streamline the reproduction politics of the cult to bloom their numbers into a devastating horde. From this rebuilt power, they were able to wage the Witch Wars, trying to reconquer the Tortogs. After roughly a century of back and forth they eventually lost despite their initial intellectual advantages. They'd been able to breed massive armies of cannibals, manufacture hordes of Sur-Gntog and Sur-Zuvtog, and deny territory with brewed plagues, but they accumulated too many enemies and never were able or willing to offer a civilization that most people weren't willing to die to deny to them.
They were simply too evil to succeed in the long term, and though some were able to escape into the deep dark places of the world like they had after the fall of the Contog Empire, Torism overwhelmed Togedotogist-WeRo and they were unable to rebuild their armies. The Cannibal Witches were hunted down and destroyed throughout the next few centuries.
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