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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 6058808" data-attributes="member: 55680">Zaal, the Sleeping CityHex 8.27 Note: inspired by the White Ship by Lovecraft. When the elven courts sundered (29.07) some few of the unseelie court remained behind (28.07 and 31.04) and some few of the seelie court went into exile. The Bloodied King watched them leave with a stony face and they walked away south under the night stars with the elves of the unseelie court. But during the long miles of their exile these renegade elves fell to quarrelling with the Queen Sinister (29.14.36) and the unseelie elves abandoned them as they lay sleeping in this stretch of desert. Now, at that very spot rise strangely pale basalt pillars that form the city walls of Zaal, the sleeping city of the white elves. It is said that within this small city rise tall terraces, bright and beautiful with green verdure unseen elsewhere in the Singing Wastes and that tree-studded avenues wind between gleaming white roofs and strange temples. They say that here lie all dreams of beauty that men forget when they awake. However, those that approach the basalt pillars of Zaal are more likely to see ghouls than temples for the creatures lurk and howl about the city’s walls hoping to eat those who fall into magical sleep as they approach the city. But any men with pleasing faces who are able to reach the city’s walls are welcomed warmly and a rope of elven hair is thrown down to them. No one, not even the ghouls, has seen anyone leave the white-walled city. Hooks:-Why did these seelie elves leave with the unseelie elves when the courts were sundered? Why did the unseelie elves leave them behind?-How did a small handful of elves build such a city? Why are they called white elves? What’s inside the city?-What causes (most of) those who approach this city to fall into a magical sleep? Why don’t the ghouls all fall asleep?-Whose hair is it?-Why do the white elves welcome (handsome male) travellers? Why have none (seemingly) ever left? Do the elves ever leave their city? The ghouls never see them go out…</blockquote>

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