28th February

    Terrain features aren't created by ordinary geological forces but by the actions of Elementals formations impossible under normal circumstances.
   Elementals should be a family of exotic species who live unseen in the forest corners and haunt snowstorms. People have many myths about such things but few people really know about them anymore.

26th February

    Since the power of the occult has diminished people are less familiar with it and superstitions abound. People gifted with supernatural powers may find themselves alienated and even persecuted. Shamans may be treated with wariness and even suspicion. Someone gifted with Essence sight who has visions of the supernatural world beyond Creation may be thought possessed for having such an unnatural power and seeing things that aren't visible to ordinary folk. Places such as Great Forks where gods and godlings live in the open in eachother's company are havens for such 'gifted' individuals.
   Think of Essence Awakening and learning supernatural martial arts as Luke Skywalker's awareness of the Force and his ascetic training in Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.

5th March

    Perhaps the consumption of the dead is an important ceremonial activity. Some societies would never let their relatives be eaten by dogs and maggots. They even go so far as leaving the bones of their ancestors on display on platforms to show their right to live on the land.
   People are beset by forces like ghosts, the Fair Folk, rogue Elementals and gods, even demons and the Deathlords with their twisted machinations. Yet these forces are remote and alien to them. Knowledge and familiarity with the supernatural world has diminished making them all the more threatening. Much superstition and mysticism surrounds the world of Essence so the Exalted whose awareness and control of Essence is intrinsic seem miraculous...or terrifying.
   The Wonders of the First Age have been forgotten and decayed in neglect and isolation leaving people only the resources of physical technology to survive when before they had magitech.
   Mainstream humanity has been thrown back on it's own resources, now greatly diminished after the apocalyptic horror of the Great Contagion and the ineptitude and internecine warfare of the Shogunate.