These are the Glyphs of Kaylaric.
The world is full of magic. There's the good kind of magic that heals and protects, and there's the bad kind of magic that attacks and destroys. As with most things good and evil the good is associated with the daylight, and the bad is associated with the dark - coming out of that darkness and materialising as dangerous and practically indestructible beasts of many different sizes and descriptions - all of which seem intent on extinguishing human existence... except where people have devised and used the glyphs of power to repel the night beasts, and so survive through the hours of darkness.
Most villages are familiar with using these symbols as painted glyphs on the walls of their individual houses, or set as large carved stones around private perimeters, but the power of the night beasts has been gaining for some time since something changed in them and they learned how to use rocks and tree branches to damage or destroy the symbols on the houses that they cannot themselves touch. As a result of this change whole villages have been wiped out by the beasts.
The elders of Kaylaric, however, struck upon the idea of making the protective symbols so large and so permanent that even if tiny parts of them were damaged by the nightly onslaught, the defences would hold long enough to be repaired in the following day.
And so the six glyphs of Kaylaric were built - a series of six new road systems, each built in the shape of the protective glyphs, and linked as a ring around the old heart of their village.
Building the new glyphs also allowed the people of Kaylaric to take in numerous survivors from neighbouring villages, so after a year of testing and finding the technique to be both powerful and lasting, they are starting to send out parties of survivors to seek others, and to find new sites to build new glyph villages.
Each of these parties carries the same map of Kaylaric to use as a teaching aid for any who haven't yet heard about Kaylaric, and as a vital plan to build new wards around every village they find where there are survivors still hanging on by the old methods.
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Its a bit like outdoor feng shui taken to a fantasy extreme - 'Rebuild your own village in this shape to be safe!'
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Diamond - Please can you change the title of my thread to "November 2017 Challenge: The Glyphs of Kaylaric"?
Thank you