NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 5930247" data-attributes="member: 83822">I don't think it's too out there ... I think it fits pretty well with what we've established about Shuttered, actually. A Sigil where all the portals have closed ... which used to have infinite possibilities and now doesn't, suits the melancholy of the Shrouded Lands, I think.The one thing that worries me is the potential trademark violations for having Mount Celestia, Arborea and Sigil. Are there other names that we could use instead? I think the 'Lord of Pain' is enough of a tip-off ... we don't need to spell it out <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />I have a potentially radical entry too, based on my observation that a proper, living horse has never been mentioned in the setting.  The Last Horse (07.21) It may have struck you as curious, dear listener, to have heard few mentions of horses in this land of ours. It is certain that we had them, for their hides mock travellers to the Black Ziggurat, and some still ride with Sir Aland on his futile hunt. Where did they go? I’ve heard it said that when the elves fought and the Courts split, the exiled elves called all the horses to join them as they departed for the Golden Realm. Along with the great herds, the elves boarded those mysterious white barges and left our lands, swearing never to return. The story has it that the stallion of the king of Gore had demeaned himself by rutting with a donkey. Not even the fact that this was the donkey of a middle-ranked aristocrat checked the amusement of the horses and disgust of the donkeys, who shared the news with their riders and companions. When the elves went out of this land, the stallion stayed beside his mule son. The elves sent a courtier to fetch him. The courtier turned up his nose at the stink of the stables. The stallion turned up his muzzle at the perfume of the elf, and that was that. The stallion is long dead, but the mules of Gore are curiously fertile and breed with donkeys, zebras and fellow mules.Every year, the mules meet on this sparse field to discuss what they have observed in the Shrouded Lands. Many—disguising their ability to talk—arrange to be purchased by bands of adventurers to ensure that the mules know of any momentous events. They try not to interfere, but are sometimes moved by pity or expedience. Hooks Does this mean that the residents of the Golden Realm are unseelie elves? Isn’t a unicorn a type of horse? Why did it stay? Are there still horses in the Golden Realm? Did any other horses remain? What on earth do the knights of Thring ride?</blockquote>

Verification