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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 5240117" data-attributes="member: 92305">-- Prachaun Grule -- (Praw-con Grool) Seven, massive, mysterious monoliths. You've known them your entire life. You played around them as a child. You know the story by heart. In the time before time, the Titans were angry because Crom knew the Secret of Steel and gave it to man. Seven Titans came to punish him, but Crom defeated them all. He planted them in the ground in graves that, seen from above, form the spokes of a wheel. Seven massive stones he drove into the ground at their heads. On the site of the battleground, your clanholme of Seven Stones Ridge has grown. The nearby ten foot ridge is known as Crom's Ankle, thought to be where Crom stood when he slew the last of the Titans--Crom's foot made an impression on the ground that sunk all the way to his ankle. Either through a true mystic connection to the standing stones or simply the existence of several freshwater springs in the area (runoff from the Eiglopians), the people of Clan Urrogh tend to be larger and well-muscled, even in comparison to other Cimmerians. The clan's story singers claim that the Urrogh get their might from the titan's blood in the soil, but most outsiders believe that it might simply be the existence of wells and water to grow vegetables and raise small livestock. The Prachaun Grule is the namesake and drawing point to the entire Seven Stones community. These 40 to 45 foot tall slabs of engraved granite are the roots of the town as much as Clan Urrogh is. Each stone is named for one of the Titans that Crom buried beneath it. They are named Thrallan, Padranag, Caelis, Foilloch, Daollcohr, Huogh, and Silaigne. It is said by storytellers that these magical words were carved into the tops of each stone when the Cimmerians first came to settle the area. Generations have passed, both Grath and now Urrogh, and the engravings are weathered and worn away, almost to a point of being undistinguishable. Even so, every member of the Seven Stones who can speak knows the names of the seven stones and which titan their family line supposedly takes after. Fionn Duncohr, in founding Seven Stones Ridge, used the history of the stones to attract the original six families that began the town's growth. Note that the single family line that refused to populate Seven Stones Ridge were the Thrahlls, who claim ancestry to the Titan Thrallan. Some clansmen wonder if Finn named the babe Thrallan, that was found next to the stone that became his namesake, because of the stone or in acknowlegement that the babe was of a lineage foreign to the clan. Although the stones do not add or detract from the town in any realistic way, the seven stones are a piece of Urrogh heritage protected by the clan. The stones and the town lie in the foothills of the Eiglophian mountains on a plateau that commands a view of the lands south from a 25 foot height. The Field of Chiefs is one day walk south. The place has been a local landmark and attractor of travellers for centuries, long before the founding of Seven Stones Ridge and the Blue Fox Clan, longer even than the birth of the Grath. Some say that the stones date to the time of Atlantis.</blockquote>

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