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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 6047929" data-attributes="member: 63"><p>She Who Writhes is a kraken-like entity. Perhaps the young girl was fleeing monsters to the north, trying to cross the Avery Sea and reach what is now Risur, when her ship was attacked. She Who Writhes destroyed it and took all the men as playthings and lovers, drowning them under the sea. The girl and her mother drifted to the bayous near what is modern Flint</p><p></p><p>The Voice of Rot is a giant pale serpent with a single glowing eye. It crept up in the night and captured the girl's mother, then spoke from the darkness and told her she must do him a service if she wanted her parents back. If she could bring him a book from Granny Allswell, the Voice of Rot would release her mother and retrieve her father from She Who Writhes. </p><p></p><p>The Voice of Rot warns her not to try to deceive him. The Fey Titans, he says, can tell when a lie is told.</p><p></p><p>Father of Thunder is a massive bison/gazelle with horns protruding all across his body. Everywhere he travels storms follow, and lightning regularly strikes the long horn on his nose. The young girl had to cross the stormy plains to reach the lair of Granny Allswell, but she saw so many trees blackened by lightning, so she dared not cross on her own. She had a gourd of beer her father had made, and was about to take a drink to calm her nerves. But the moment she opened it she heard the tromp of hooves approaching, booming like thunder. The Father of Thunder, his herd in tow, laughed joyfully and asked for the beer. She gave it to him, and he drank, and fell into a stupor. </p><p></p><p>The next morning the Father of Thunder had forgotten all about her, and it went on about its marching across the plains, not realizing that the young girl was riding on its back, protected from the storms because every bolt of lightning would strike the beast's horn.</p><p></p><p>Granny Allswell is a giant goblin-like matron, who presided over a warren of caves filled with goblins, filled with fire and music. Every cave leads to her lair. The young girl snuck in, hid herself by dancing the same wild dances the goblins performed, and managed to steal the book, thus depriving goblin-kind with civilization, which is why they're still savage to this day. (The book would be written on vellum, not paper, and probably gorgeously illuminated. Think the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells" target="_blank">Book of Kells</a>.)</p><p></p><p>She emerged from the warren through a completely different cave, into a forest.</p><p></p><p>The Ash Wolf was master of a mighty pack that hunted in the woods, and when people saw forest fires they would say it was the Ash Wolf out on a hunt, killing everything, even trees. The young girl flees the goblins through the Ash Wolf's domain and is pursued, but when the titan catches up with her she holds up the book, whose cover has transformed to wolf fur. The Ash Wolf sniffs it, then lets the young girl go and instead turns back to fight off the goblins, thinking they are pursuing one of its children.</p><p></p><p>She returns to the sea, but does not go to the Voice of Rot, for she realizes that the book changes form to match wherever it goes. She tucks it under her arm and dives into the ocean, and scales cover her body, letting her swim and breathe underwater. She slips past She Who Writhes, who has exhausted herself in an orgy with the sailors, and she finds her father trapped in a field of stinging sea urchins. She goes through them without being harmed, and pulls him free. But this awakens She Who Writhes, who will never allow any of her playthings to leave her grasp.</p><p></p><p>The girl and her father swim as fast as they can to the bayou, and when the Voice of Rot comes out to retrieve the book he so desires, the girl tells She Who Writhes that it was the Voice of Rot who sent her on her mission. This is a truth, if not the whole truth, but She Who Writhes believes as the girl intended and sets upon the serpent.</p><p></p><p>In the confusion the girl and her family are able to escape inland. She Who Writhes defeats the Voice of Rot, banishing him from the low bayou to the distant high bayou, far from the kraken's domain. The young girl and her family live on, safe in the knowledge that they can defeat any of the beasts of the world that might threaten them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 6047929, member: 63"] She Who Writhes is a kraken-like entity. Perhaps the young girl was fleeing monsters to the north, trying to cross the Avery Sea and reach what is now Risur, when her ship was attacked. She Who Writhes destroyed it and took all the men as playthings and lovers, drowning them under the sea. The girl and her mother drifted to the bayous near what is modern Flint The Voice of Rot is a giant pale serpent with a single glowing eye. It crept up in the night and captured the girl's mother, then spoke from the darkness and told her she must do him a service if she wanted her parents back. If she could bring him a book from Granny Allswell, the Voice of Rot would release her mother and retrieve her father from She Who Writhes. The Voice of Rot warns her not to try to deceive him. The Fey Titans, he says, can tell when a lie is told. Father of Thunder is a massive bison/gazelle with horns protruding all across his body. Everywhere he travels storms follow, and lightning regularly strikes the long horn on his nose. The young girl had to cross the stormy plains to reach the lair of Granny Allswell, but she saw so many trees blackened by lightning, so she dared not cross on her own. She had a gourd of beer her father had made, and was about to take a drink to calm her nerves. But the moment she opened it she heard the tromp of hooves approaching, booming like thunder. The Father of Thunder, his herd in tow, laughed joyfully and asked for the beer. She gave it to him, and he drank, and fell into a stupor. The next morning the Father of Thunder had forgotten all about her, and it went on about its marching across the plains, not realizing that the young girl was riding on its back, protected from the storms because every bolt of lightning would strike the beast's horn. Granny Allswell is a giant goblin-like matron, who presided over a warren of caves filled with goblins, filled with fire and music. Every cave leads to her lair. The young girl snuck in, hid herself by dancing the same wild dances the goblins performed, and managed to steal the book, thus depriving goblin-kind with civilization, which is why they're still savage to this day. (The book would be written on vellum, not paper, and probably gorgeously illuminated. Think the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells]Book of Kells[/url].) She emerged from the warren through a completely different cave, into a forest. The Ash Wolf was master of a mighty pack that hunted in the woods, and when people saw forest fires they would say it was the Ash Wolf out on a hunt, killing everything, even trees. The young girl flees the goblins through the Ash Wolf's domain and is pursued, but when the titan catches up with her she holds up the book, whose cover has transformed to wolf fur. The Ash Wolf sniffs it, then lets the young girl go and instead turns back to fight off the goblins, thinking they are pursuing one of its children. She returns to the sea, but does not go to the Voice of Rot, for she realizes that the book changes form to match wherever it goes. She tucks it under her arm and dives into the ocean, and scales cover her body, letting her swim and breathe underwater. She slips past She Who Writhes, who has exhausted herself in an orgy with the sailors, and she finds her father trapped in a field of stinging sea urchins. She goes through them without being harmed, and pulls him free. But this awakens She Who Writhes, who will never allow any of her playthings to leave her grasp. The girl and her father swim as fast as they can to the bayou, and when the Voice of Rot comes out to retrieve the book he so desires, the girl tells She Who Writhes that it was the Voice of Rot who sent her on her mission. This is a truth, if not the whole truth, but She Who Writhes believes as the girl intended and sets upon the serpent. In the confusion the girl and her family are able to escape inland. She Who Writhes defeats the Voice of Rot, banishing him from the low bayou to the distant high bayou, far from the kraken's domain. The young girl and her family live on, safe in the knowledge that they can defeat any of the beasts of the world that might threaten them. [/QUOTE]
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