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<blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 5872962" data-attributes="member: 83822"><p><strong>THE WINNOWING (08.06, and presumably others)</strong></p><p></p><p> A traveller who wishes to make his or her way to the Sunless Sea should travel to the caverns stalked by the Destroying Angel. Here, the traveller must identify which of the river’s forks leads downwards; the others pool in stagnant lakes polluted by the Angel’s droppings.</p><p></p><p> The right passage is always marked, but never in the same way and not always in a manner perceptible to the eye.</p><p> The correct passage, the Winnowing, is a combination of rapids where the glassy rocks jut out of the water – sharp edges seemingly always oriented towards approaching boats – and long, slow-moving stretches where dwell albino crocodiles, phosphorescent large squid and nests of stirges.</p><p></p><p> Sound and light will disturb the crocodiles and squid, but if travellers make no sound and cast no light these aquatic predators will show only tremendous curiosity – nudging the boat, exploring its contents with their tentacles or pushing their snouts over the side to sniff the smell of the surface.</p><p></p><p> The stirges, however, will waste no time in latching onto the intruders. Since it is rare that any traveller passes by, the maladies from previous victims that they pass on may be strange indeed.</p><p></p><p> The fish in this river are fat and lazy, which explains the amiability of the predators.</p><p></p><p> <em>Hooks</em></p><p> Who makes the markings?</p><p> What infections do the stirges have?</p><p></p><p><strong>THE ORPHANS' MARCH (27.09)</strong></p><p> </p><p> The bleak cobble path leading into the Kingswood is called the Orphans’ March. In the old tomes, when the elves ruled beyond the forest, this was the road taken by the children sent in tribute to the elves. An elf piper led the way while the children played their silver bells.</p><p></p><p> Of course, the elves only took copperhair children, and to this day expectant mothers pray to the Green Lady for ravenhair, goldhair or even mudhair. The superstitious will dye their child’s hair green for the first few years of his or her life, to ‘ward off fay eyes’.</p><p></p><p> Beyond the forest, the Orphan’s Road is in disrepair. The part at the entrance to the Kingswod, however, appears to have been carefully maintained. According to folk tales, a traveller carrying a single lit candle and who never strays from the Orphans’ March will find himself or herself in front of the Holt as the candle burns down to its stump. How the traveller can then make his or her way back is in no folk tale I know of.</p><p></p><p> <em>Hooks</em></p><p> Why did the elves want human children? What happened to them? And why did they only want copperhairs?</p><p> Is the folk tale true?</p><p> Is the Orphans’ Road one of the paths that pass through the Fey-Realm or one of the thousand doors? Are those two forms of quick passage one and the same?</p><p> What would happen if the Orphans’ Road were repaired?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sanglorian, post: 5872962, member: 83822"] [B]THE WINNOWING (08.06, and presumably others)[/B] A traveller who wishes to make his or her way to the Sunless Sea should travel to the caverns stalked by the Destroying Angel. Here, the traveller must identify which of the river’s forks leads downwards; the others pool in stagnant lakes polluted by the Angel’s droppings. The right passage is always marked, but never in the same way and not always in a manner perceptible to the eye. The correct passage, the Winnowing, is a combination of rapids where the glassy rocks jut out of the water – sharp edges seemingly always oriented towards approaching boats – and long, slow-moving stretches where dwell albino crocodiles, phosphorescent large squid and nests of stirges. Sound and light will disturb the crocodiles and squid, but if travellers make no sound and cast no light these aquatic predators will show only tremendous curiosity – nudging the boat, exploring its contents with their tentacles or pushing their snouts over the side to sniff the smell of the surface. The stirges, however, will waste no time in latching onto the intruders. Since it is rare that any traveller passes by, the maladies from previous victims that they pass on may be strange indeed. The fish in this river are fat and lazy, which explains the amiability of the predators. [I]Hooks[/I] Who makes the markings? What infections do the stirges have? [B]THE ORPHANS' MARCH (27.09)[/B] The bleak cobble path leading into the Kingswood is called the Orphans’ March. In the old tomes, when the elves ruled beyond the forest, this was the road taken by the children sent in tribute to the elves. An elf piper led the way while the children played their silver bells. Of course, the elves only took copperhair children, and to this day expectant mothers pray to the Green Lady for ravenhair, goldhair or even mudhair. The superstitious will dye their child’s hair green for the first few years of his or her life, to ‘ward off fay eyes’. Beyond the forest, the Orphan’s Road is in disrepair. The part at the entrance to the Kingswod, however, appears to have been carefully maintained. According to folk tales, a traveller carrying a single lit candle and who never strays from the Orphans’ March will find himself or herself in front of the Holt as the candle burns down to its stump. How the traveller can then make his or her way back is in no folk tale I know of. [I]Hooks[/I] Why did the elves want human children? What happened to them? And why did they only want copperhairs? Is the folk tale true? Is the Orphans’ Road one of the paths that pass through the Fey-Realm or one of the thousand doors? Are those two forms of quick passage one and the same? What would happen if the Orphans’ Road were repaired? [/QUOTE]
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