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Queen of Shadows - Episode 37

Queen of Shadows - Episode 37

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Previously: In our previous episode. Eilwen, Aron, and the young wyvern, Scratch, arrive in a huge grassy meadowed steppe, shaped into a large shallow bowl, and there above the waves of grasses, they catch their first glimpses of Highcrag. The settlement is built atop a large and flat outcropping of rock which juts out to the east from one of the mountains that rises above it, keeping Highcrag in perpetual shadow every afternoon. Scratch remains atop a hill at the bowl’s lip, practicing his newfound skill of flight in the eastward wind that ripples across the sea of grass, while Aron and Eilwen atop their new mounts ride to the top of several switchbacks and across a narrow saddle to make entrance into the settlement proper. They find that the heavy wooden gate is destroyed--and from the pattern of the littered stone and debris, they determine that an unknown assailant had burst it asunder--from the inside. They investigate the settlement but find it abandoned. Delos, the Iron Priest, is not there. Also, they find no bodies, living or dead in Highgrag. However, near the settlement’s center they see more signs of damage done to the homes, similar to what happened near the gate. In one of these two story buildings, they find a room with a broken table and shattered chairs and a pile of scattered parchments and clear signs of struggle and bloodletting. While Eilwen searches the parchments, Aron leaves to investigate the rest of the building. He finds a strange device made of a flat iron disk with a hole in its center surrounded by a graceful script and brings it back to Eilwen, but neither he nor Eilwen can decipher the meaning, but they do determine that it bears remarkable similarities to the script and artistry they saw in the subterranean mountain bastion of elven make that had fallen to shadow and ruin--in Grimstone. Eilwen shares with Aron what she has learned from her study of the parchments--that they are in fact the scattered ravings of Delos himself, the very person they seek. Therein, Delos reveals that he had an encounter with a sacred iron pillar, and that he now serves some higher power or entity, though he gives neither name nor description. But he does reveal that one goal of his servitude is to bring back a cherished loved one who has passed beyond the veil of mortal existence, and he states that if he is successful, it would usher in a golden age where death itself becomes meaningless. Aron thinks him mad and surmises that the being of power he serves could be one of the Heralds of Night, though how one of those could have come across the great expanse of waters to these shores is unknown to him. Eilwen keeps her own counsel on that score, having seen in vision, through the sapphire-studded amulet, much about the Herald, Nar Shiv, that she has not told her brother or Seith. They decide that the only way to know more is to find Delos, and the one clue they have is his mention of the iron pillar. Eilwen searches some more and finds a crude map of the surrounding mountains and vales and a clear indication of the location of the iron pillar a short journey away to the north west. And what is more, above the pillar in Delos’s hand is drawn the skaed rune. The very one Eilwen uses to call the shadows to her. Websites: https://rollponderandplay.podbean.com/https://patreon.com/rollponderandplaywww.youtube.com/@RollPonderAndPlayhttps://discord.com/invite/dfKTkJHKem Ways to Show Support: Join my patreon for free at https://patreon.com/rollponderandplay or as a paid subscriber and get additional contentGive the show a positive reviewShare the show with othersReach out to me and say hello Attributions: - 'The Long Dark' by Scott Buckley (www.scottbuckley.com.au) released under CC-BY 4.0. - 'Emergent' by Scott Buckley (www.scottbuckley.com.au) released under CC-BY 4.0. - 'Meanwhile' by Scott Buckley (www.scottbuckley.com.au) released under CC-BY 4.0. - Various tracks by Tabletop Audio ( https://tabletopaudio.com) - released under CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0. Minor modifications (fading/splitting) made to support this podcast format with written permission from the creator. - Jaques - Andreas-Woll-Music (Pixabay.com) - Sound Effects from Pixabay (Pixabay.com).
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