The 12 Fables of Ealdræd
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Episode #9 "The Matriarchs of Gathkar"
Ealdræd and his erotic but bloodthirsty Menghis companion Eiji travel through the Gathkar Queendoms, a female supremacist theocracy. Nowhere else is there so perverse a culture, nor one so consumed by self-loathing. And as the infantilised matriarchal society crumbles around them the two travellers must defend themselves against swaggering Ahkrani military and lust-fuelled Tehlitzim merchants all of whom want to steal the alluring oriental girl away from her beloved Effendi, while the priestesses who have sown the seeds of their own destruction find that retribution overtakes them in the Temple of Ertamis.
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