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<blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 6217333" data-attributes="member: 12460"><p><a href="http://s898.photobucket.com/user/samthedagger/media/RotR/Brodert_zpsb73cf283.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac185/samthedagger/RotR/Brodert_zpsb73cf283.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Rupert the cat hops along the lower ruins, climbing to position himself to walk high on the ruined walls, constantly eyeing Lax suspiciously. As Talashia sketches the rune in Brodert's journal, the old man comments to Duko, <span style="color: #DAA520">"My uh, feline companion seems to have taken on a natural distrust of yours. I must confess that creature is an unknown oddity to me. I should like to know where and uh, by what means you acquired it. Oh, pardon if my asking is rude. I am merely fascinated by the creature as I have never seen its like."</span></p><p></p><p>The completed rune Talashia draws seems to satisfy Brodert a great deal. He smiles as she finishes the sketch. <span style="color: #DAA520">"Well, that is one question that has plagued me for years. I always knew it was either one or the other. My thanks, young one. You have helped me answer one riddle now and for that I am indebted to you. Call on me should you ever require assistance on matters of history, engineering, or ancient Thassilon. And yet uh..."</span> the old man's voice trails off as he stares at the drawing with his spectacles. He sits down upon a nearby rock and rests the journal on his lap. <span style="color: #DAA520">"It seems answering one question sprouts up two more like cutting off the head of a hydra. There are so many things about Thassilon we simply uh, do not know."</span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://s898.photobucket.com/user/samthedagger/media/RotR/runewhole_zps0417ca70.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac185/samthedagger/RotR/runewhole_zps0417ca70.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p>[sblock=Knowledge (history) or Linguistics DC 20 (automatic if character speaks Thassilonian)]When drawn this way, the rune is an ancient Thassilonian cuneiform representation of "pride." If drawn as its mirror image, it represents "humility."[/sblock]</p><p></p><p>Brodert nods at the barbarian, <span style="color: #DAA520">"You know there are many who say that this land of Varisia was once the heartland of the Empire of Thassilon. Of course it was thousands of years ago, so few are certain of details, but they left many ruins such as this in their wake. I have heard of and occasioned to see others with a very similar structure elsewhere in Varisia... not all of them upon the coast. I do so often wonder whether our modern notion of this structure as a lighthouse is uh... misplaced."</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="airwalkrr, post: 6217333, member: 12460"] [URL=http://s898.photobucket.com/user/samthedagger/media/RotR/Brodert_zpsb73cf283.jpg.html][IMG]http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac185/samthedagger/RotR/Brodert_zpsb73cf283.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Rupert the cat hops along the lower ruins, climbing to position himself to walk high on the ruined walls, constantly eyeing Lax suspiciously. As Talashia sketches the rune in Brodert's journal, the old man comments to Duko, [COLOR="#DAA520"]"My uh, feline companion seems to have taken on a natural distrust of yours. I must confess that creature is an unknown oddity to me. I should like to know where and uh, by what means you acquired it. Oh, pardon if my asking is rude. I am merely fascinated by the creature as I have never seen its like."[/COLOR] The completed rune Talashia draws seems to satisfy Brodert a great deal. He smiles as she finishes the sketch. [COLOR="#DAA520"]"Well, that is one question that has plagued me for years. I always knew it was either one or the other. My thanks, young one. You have helped me answer one riddle now and for that I am indebted to you. Call on me should you ever require assistance on matters of history, engineering, or ancient Thassilon. And yet uh..."[/COLOR] the old man's voice trails off as he stares at the drawing with his spectacles. He sits down upon a nearby rock and rests the journal on his lap. [COLOR="#DAA520"]"It seems answering one question sprouts up two more like cutting off the head of a hydra. There are so many things about Thassilon we simply uh, do not know."[/COLOR] [URL=http://s898.photobucket.com/user/samthedagger/media/RotR/runewhole_zps0417ca70.jpg.html][IMG]http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac185/samthedagger/RotR/runewhole_zps0417ca70.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [sblock=Knowledge (history) or Linguistics DC 20 (automatic if character speaks Thassilonian)]When drawn this way, the rune is an ancient Thassilonian cuneiform representation of "pride." If drawn as its mirror image, it represents "humility."[/sblock] Brodert nods at the barbarian, [COLOR="#DAA520"]"You know there are many who say that this land of Varisia was once the heartland of the Empire of Thassilon. Of course it was thousands of years ago, so few are certain of details, but they left many ruins such as this in their wake. I have heard of and occasioned to see others with a very similar structure elsewhere in Varisia... not all of them upon the coast. I do so often wonder whether our modern notion of this structure as a lighthouse is uh... misplaced."[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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