Walk the Moons Road

The pokey plot involves a human sea captain named Salas Tarag, who rashly bets an entire pub full of drunk seamen that he will be able to meet, face to face, with a being known as a lilith, who is rumored to have arrived secretly in the seaport of Falnerescu where the story is set. A lilith belongs to the humanoid race of the Vli, and is best described as a Vli of a third gender, neither male nor female but somewhere in between. A lilith is revered by the Vli as a priestess to their goddess. They are also necessary participants in the Vli reproductive cycle, since, for some reason, Vli males and females cannot reproduce together and need the intervention of the lilith. In other words, a lilith sleeps with everybody. So consequently, a wealth of rumor, myth, and prejudice surrounds the Vli because of this. But most importantly, no lilith has ever been known to leave the Vli homeland, which would make this something of an historical event.