Jack of Harts

The tiger-derived Laohu of San Lucas grew up as slaves under the mountain of the gods of Hankou. Then humanity arrived and our flames came down from the sky instead of up from the mountain. The Laohu saw in those fires new gods that might shine down on them with more favor than the gods of the mountain. It seemed like an answer to prayers when their masters began to fight amongst themselves. Then the Laohu took the matter in their own claws and added to the chaos with a full-scale rebellion. The twin fires of religious war and a slave rebellion raged across Hankou until the mountain of the gods awoke and buried those who had failed them under burning lava. Or so the followers of the new gods explained it. Then they fled into the lower mountains and foothills in an effort to stay ahead of the lava coming from the mountain. Their former masters followed them, and the wars redoubled over the vanishing resources and land that remained as the world burned to an end around them.