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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rigaal Nook" data-source="post: 1173170" data-attributes="member: 14746">The Well of the Seven Sisters-from the journal of Oken Lightbottom, Gnome of much worth to SharessI've done it again!  I've managed to come back from dead...again!  Luckily some strikingly similar ladies were there to catch me when I fell.  Oddly enough though, she didn't even ask for anything in return.  Any cutter with that much background as to be saving the nearest blood for nothing but satisfaction has got somethin' addled real fine.Now I've got to stay.  I can't be leavin' a body that just gave death the laugh for me!  I've got more respect than your average Knight of the Post, I do.  'Sides, I still haven't got down that blasted Well.  How can I know fer sure if that fiend was lyin' or not if I don't go?  Maybe those fine ladies might help me get my friends out of there.The Well of the Seven Sisters is the site of an Imprisoned fiend that slayed an entire household nearby, many millenia ago.  Soon after the vile act, the caretaker of the 10 children that had been gruesomely slaughtered arrived to find the fiend gloating and consuming the souls of his third victim.A violent battle ensued and ultimately the Caretaker sacrificed himself to Imprison the demon within a well.  With his dying breath he freed the deteriorating souls of the other children.  But, alas, his magic had been depleted and his spell gave out before his incantation could be finished.  He collapsed and the earth trembled as the fiend began his ascent again to the realm of mortals.With a swiftness known only to their kind hearts, the seven remaining children of a long lost bloodline, bonded as they never would in life to seal the fiend back inside the Well.  Time ceased for the Sisters and as the investigations into their disappearance subsided their lonliness began.  The Sisters, at first, were not even able to leave the site of their demise, but with time they cultivated some of the power they could have had in life.  They began to take interest in the safety of this place and magicked it to be unobservable to the untrained eye and any that do happen upon it quickly forget ever having seeing the sacred place.But with time, so too did the power of the demon grow.  She began to stretch her abilities thin and circumvented some of the wards place by her keepers.  She constructed a web that entrapped unaware travelers that passed to close to the site.  With a magic of her own she has misled the Sisters into believing their power is the one preventing the passage of travelers into the region.  So far her ruse has been unobserved, but she has also been unable to escape her prison.  Hopefully the poor sod that just happened into her cell might be able to release her.</blockquote>

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