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Pictures included in this week's update

Update Statement. It's summer and people are enjoying their holidays - or aren't they? Hey, can it be that Santharian developers enjoy their holidays with... developing? How else is it explainable that we got another massive update for you this time! Especially Bard Judith - having re-discovered her digital brushes - has her hands in no less than 8 (!) entries this time, turning this week's update into a very special Judy special! - So what have we got? A little hobbit invasion with Wotho in the Cha'ah entry (pic Bard Judith) and an entry on the Lorehold chef Hubert (Mannix, pic Quellion), followed by a plethora of dwarven stuff, like the Singspeakers entry (Judy), a Thergerim story called "The Midnight Marjual" (Judy) and a magnifcient tribe entry on the long awaited Zirghurim Clan located on the Ximax peninsula (J... well, you know who). Other absolute highlights include no less than three musical pieces! Gean offers "Herool's Prowl" and an "Evening at the Broken Wing", a tavern in Shneerin, and Alysse delights us once more with a Kuglimz long song called "My Heart for You". We also shouldn't forget other key entries like the one on the Colony of Eph'denn (Azhira), Ll'eh Spiritfriend (Rookie) and the unsated Gebl (Judy of course). If you spot a Red Herring somewhere, take it for real (Mira), and if you're looking for even more illustrations, you might want to check out the Capou-Capou entry, the White Bear and the Empire of Krath entry, where a Viaquis mage honours us with his presence (now who could have done all those pictures, hmmm...).

Coming Up. Next time we've got pie (hooray!), some language stuff and hopefully more pics, as whenever Judy is in a drawing frenzy one shouldn't try to stop her... We'll see what we can put where. Fitting to the pie we might also have prezzers for you if Ganinon manages to finish the entry instead of munching them for research purposes. And hopefully we get some gnomish drinks to wash it all down! Oh, and we got a fencing instructor in the making, and more on Eyelian culture. So drop in anytime to see what's new!


*Bestiary*	Updated entry on the Capou-Capou Flying Ape, adding illustration of the monkey (pic Bard Judith) Added entry on the Foilfish, Nybelmar's rather unique "Red Herring" (Miraran Tehuriden) Added entry on the Yah'nork Goat, a fascinating kind of goat living in the Tandala Highlands (Gaffin) Added entry on the Yepran Toad, a peculiar whistling creature of the Jungles of Shar (Decipher Ziron) Updated entry on the White Bear, adding illustration to this Cyhalloian beast (pic Bard Judith)
*Cosmology*	Updated entry on the Injèrá (the Sun), fixing a few incorrectly stated details (Talia & Artimidor) Updated entry on the Cha'ah Tea Herb, adding illustration of the famous hobbit merchant Wotho Kin Overborroughs (pic Bard Judith)
*Herbarium*	Updated entry on the Candlebush, completely revising the entry (Mannix)
*History*	Added entry on the Battle of Alvang ("Witchking's Night"), one of the legendary battles of the Móh'rónn (Azhira)
*Library*	Added new book called "Thergerim Tales" to our Library, and started it off with the first tale, provided by Judy and called "The Midnight Marjual". This entertaining 11 page long folk tale about the dwarfling Bruk allows interesting insights in the procedures and minds of the Thergerim (Bard Judith)
*Misc*	Added entry on the Aellenrhim Harp, one of the native instruments of the Aellenrhim elves (Petros Greenvale) Added entry on the Morjualerons ("Dwarven Singspeakers"), providing insights in the Thergerim ways of communication via the usage of cave bats (Bard Judith)
*Music*	Added new musical piece "Evening at the Broken Wing" to our "Places Songs" collection in the Music menu, introducing us to Shneerin tavern music. The song was also added to entry on Shneerin as a musical theme (song by Gean Firefeet) Added new musical piece "Herool's Prowl" to our "Ballads of Santharia" collection in the Music menu. The song was also added to the Children Poems page (song by Gean Firefeet, based on a poem by Decipher Ziron) Added new musical piece "My Heart for You" to our "Kuglimz Songs" collection in the Music menu. The song was also added to the Songs of the Kuglimz page (song by Alysse)
*People*	Added entry on the Brownie Gebl the Unsated, an apocryphal tragic-comic figure of Brownie legend - larger than life, sardonic and lusty, crude yet witty and a pragmatic wanderer (Bard Judith) Added entry on Hubert Greengrove, the halfling cook of the Lorehold. Note: Integration of various parts of the picture in the Santhworld Lorehold module will follow soon! (Mannix, pic Quellion) Added entry on Ll'eh Spiritfriend, a writing Brownie of the Praiser Clan (Rookie Brownbark)
*Places*	Added entry on the Colony of Eph'denn, a large half-orc settlement of the Kaaer'dár'shín (Azhira) Updated entry on the Empire of Krath, adding another illustration to the entry, the Viaquis mage Viltir, accompanied by a bunch of capou-capou apes (pic Bard Judith)
Races & Tribes	Added entry on the Zirghurim Dwarves ("Bright Heights Clan"), the long awaited Thergerim of the Zirkumire Mountains of Ximax, mainly renowned for having been the primary builders of the magical city of Ximax, and for their famously-spectacular "lava cities" (Bard Judith)
*Team*	Updated membership page of Decipher Ziron, substituting photo (Decipher)