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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Khorod" data-source="post: 2096206" data-attributes="member: 1636">Um, isn't it the destiny of all the first-generation Half-Orcs in the chosen Heir Pillar to be executed when the Grand Monarch dies?  The Senate must get a little raucous around that time if they're all present and authoritative.New Contribution:Elven monuments were either made from delicately worked stone (preferrably marble), from wood, or even from bonsai'd trees.  Trees of that sort were often quite large.  Trees of this sort can be seen in Nistadeen.  These monuments were sometimes covered in traceries of formal Elvish script, commemerating their purpose, or imbuing the monument with some magic, or anchoring some magic to the land around it.This script translates from the Elvish as Silverlight.  It has a reflective, silvery quality, giving it its name.  When applied, it burns into what it touches by a half a finger's width.  Under the light of certain stars the text glows with a matching light.Most Elven monuments today are in ruins.  Many were specifically destroyed, though some later ones were carefully dissected as tokens of victory.  Many old families in Eyros have a stone or piece of wood from such an Elven relic.  A number of surviving monuments scattered across the countryside are treated with Silverlight.  Out of superstition- or fear, they were never torn down.  It is often the early work of a member of the Praes Thanatos to visit a number of these monuments, and in conjunction with a local priest, renew declarations that they are anathema and put magical wardings against them.  There is often defacement with the blood of animal sacrifices and black paint.The Praes Thanatos has always felt that renewing those once per five or ten years is surely enough for reasonable caution, but the people living near the monoliths and sacred trees  know that on the Summer and Winter Solstice these places glow with a fearsome light, and even those who cannot see the light can feel it for miles around.</blockquote>

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