“You do not dare to mention the Jul Bre Nog when in the company of any Khafkii. While it is my job to collect the stories both legend and fact, I cannot help but shiver. As my mother put it, they were “the men who come and hunt our good blood and drain it so we cannot be judged by the gods on our own”. I question whether this is true or not, or the exaggeration of one or two particularly cruel masters. I personally think not. But bias cannot slip into my career, especially not what I write professionally."— Abigaíl Lukchi
To most Curreans the Jul Bre Nog is a mere fairy tale - the one that a mother might tell her unruly children so they sleep or eat the food given to them by the gods and the fates. And after a while, those children grow up, seeing it for the falsehood it is. But to the Khafkii who know this tale (given by them the name ‘Haar pa Pemye’) even the old can’t help but shiver.
Origins
The myth was first recorded in 1031 in an anthology of Khafkii tales, meaning it was probably in oral tradition from at least the 900’s DEV, perhaps even earlier. Many are in disagreement on where the myth comes from exactly, though. Some say the myth comes from an exaggeration of the cruel treatment faced by the Khafkii of the ear. Others say it comes from a passage within the
Kaharuponda:
“One must come before the gods with all his body in relative order. Better to come before the immortal judge with no hand than one that leads to sin.”— Thr Kaharuponda
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