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<blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 5847805" data-attributes="member: 55680"><p><strong>The Weeper’s Tower</strong></p><p>43.08</p><p></p><p>The Witchwater, which begins with a geyser that burstsfrom the earth before the gates of the Holt of the Bloodied King (29.07) flows through the eastern parts of the Kingswood before finally falling off of the Edge of the World in a great waterfall of breathtaking beauty.</p><p></p><p>Next to the great waterfall at the Edge of the World, rises the tall ivory tower of the elven wizard known as the Weeper. Once he employed magical means to return to the Holt each night to pay his respects to the elven king but no longer. Since the disappearance of his daughter he has not set foot outside his tower and his sobs echo up and down the waterfall, their sound strangely amplified and intermingled with that of the fall.</p><p></p><p>In his youth, the Weeper was a great geographer and his journals are one of the best sources of knowledge of many places in these lands, but these days few are allowed within his tower to speak with him and the overly-persistent are driven off lamenting.</p><p></p><p>Many years ago a curious traveller asked the Weeper about the lighthouse that lies notso far from his tower and came away with this story:</p><p></p><p>Once the lion priests maintained the lighthouse (although they did not build it) and said that the light they shone showed that their god gave hope in even the greatest darkness. They also helped those returning from expeditions past the Edge of the World for the Keepers would throw down a great rope ladder to travelers emerging from below, back in those days when going beyond the Edge was somewhat less suicidal.</p><p></p><p>The Keepers served alone in the lighthouse for lonely two year terms. The last of them was a young man by the name of Nikos Farver. He had loved an elf lady who had given up the forests of her homeland forever for the cities of men and he gave her all of the kindness that his foolish heart possessed. She rewarded him with smiles and long talks over bottles of hobgoblin shroomwine (16.04) but little else. Nikos grew mad with infatuation and began pressing gifts into her hands, crude ugly things in elven eyes, and finally professed his love to her in verse that flew from his heart like a plump chicken. </p><p></p><p>She laughed in the way that elves do, meaning no harm, but Nikos stormed out in anger and went to the lion priests and begged to be allowed to be the next Keeper of their lighthouse, preferring the loneliness of isolation to the loneliness of living alone among thousands. </p><p></p><p>Long did Nikos brood in his lighthouse, his thoughts growing darker and skittering between the walls of his mind, and when his appointed two years as Keeper had passed he saw his replacement walking with his escort up to the tower. Knowing that the time had come for him to return to his homeland and see the elf lady walking, talking and laughing with others in the places that he gone with her he panicked and trained the house's light on his replacement, who burned up under its radiance like an ant under dwarven glass. </p><p></p><p>For many years Nikos remained at his post, swinging the light wildly and scrawling mad rants against elvenkind on the walls. He had no need to eat, for the lion priests had woven a potent spell around the top floor of the light house so that anyone who stayed there would need but a rare sip of water and the light of the sun upon their face to receive sustenance. Some say that Nikos remains there still, although if there is any truth to those rumors he is ancient indeed...</p><p></p><p>Hooks:</p><p>-Is the elf lady in the story the Weeper's daughter? What happened to her anyway?</p><p>-What other secrets does the Weeper know?</p><p>-Is Nikos still in the tower? His ghost? </p><p>-If the lion priests didn't build the tower, then who did?</p><p>-Is the spell on the top floor of the tower still intact?</p><p></p><p>I’ll be expanding on the lion priests fairly soon…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daztur, post: 5847805, member: 55680"] [b]The Weeper’s Tower[/b] 43.08 The Witchwater, which begins with a geyser that burstsfrom the earth before the gates of the Holt of the Bloodied King (29.07) flows through the eastern parts of the Kingswood before finally falling off of the Edge of the World in a great waterfall of breathtaking beauty. Next to the great waterfall at the Edge of the World, rises the tall ivory tower of the elven wizard known as the Weeper. Once he employed magical means to return to the Holt each night to pay his respects to the elven king but no longer. Since the disappearance of his daughter he has not set foot outside his tower and his sobs echo up and down the waterfall, their sound strangely amplified and intermingled with that of the fall. In his youth, the Weeper was a great geographer and his journals are one of the best sources of knowledge of many places in these lands, but these days few are allowed within his tower to speak with him and the overly-persistent are driven off lamenting. Many years ago a curious traveller asked the Weeper about the lighthouse that lies notso far from his tower and came away with this story: Once the lion priests maintained the lighthouse (although they did not build it) and said that the light they shone showed that their god gave hope in even the greatest darkness. They also helped those returning from expeditions past the Edge of the World for the Keepers would throw down a great rope ladder to travelers emerging from below, back in those days when going beyond the Edge was somewhat less suicidal. The Keepers served alone in the lighthouse for lonely two year terms. The last of them was a young man by the name of Nikos Farver. He had loved an elf lady who had given up the forests of her homeland forever for the cities of men and he gave her all of the kindness that his foolish heart possessed. She rewarded him with smiles and long talks over bottles of hobgoblin shroomwine (16.04) but little else. Nikos grew mad with infatuation and began pressing gifts into her hands, crude ugly things in elven eyes, and finally professed his love to her in verse that flew from his heart like a plump chicken. She laughed in the way that elves do, meaning no harm, but Nikos stormed out in anger and went to the lion priests and begged to be allowed to be the next Keeper of their lighthouse, preferring the loneliness of isolation to the loneliness of living alone among thousands. Long did Nikos brood in his lighthouse, his thoughts growing darker and skittering between the walls of his mind, and when his appointed two years as Keeper had passed he saw his replacement walking with his escort up to the tower. Knowing that the time had come for him to return to his homeland and see the elf lady walking, talking and laughing with others in the places that he gone with her he panicked and trained the house's light on his replacement, who burned up under its radiance like an ant under dwarven glass. For many years Nikos remained at his post, swinging the light wildly and scrawling mad rants against elvenkind on the walls. He had no need to eat, for the lion priests had woven a potent spell around the top floor of the light house so that anyone who stayed there would need but a rare sip of water and the light of the sun upon their face to receive sustenance. Some say that Nikos remains there still, although if there is any truth to those rumors he is ancient indeed... Hooks: -Is the elf lady in the story the Weeper's daughter? What happened to her anyway? -What other secrets does the Weeper know? -Is Nikos still in the tower? His ghost? -If the lion priests didn't build the tower, then who did? -Is the spell on the top floor of the tower still intact? I’ll be expanding on the lion priests fairly soon… [/QUOTE]
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