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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 3214829" data-attributes="member: 172">The penumbral cave is the technical name provided in the Geographical Travel Logs of the sage Selvarius "Squinty" Felsaloom for a curious cave on the side of a hill along a trade road in the east end of the duchy.The most curious and immediately observable effect of the cave is that regardless of the time of day outside, just within the lip of the cave, is a line of faded, braided runes. Beyond that line, regardless of the time of day on the exterior, the interior lighting is a dull shadow.Selvarius points to this as being merely a curiosity put in place by some bygone mage, perhaps to provide shade on sunny days.However, though there are no major communities in the immediate area of the cave, the two villages which are connected by the road passing by the Penumbral Cave have a variety of myths regarding the cave. A commonly recurring story in the tales of both villages recount how two travelers, caught outdoors during a dark and stormy night, took refuge in the cave. Though terrified by the magic, as many commoners are, they considered it better than being in the blistering winds of the storm.The tale goes that the set out the next day and soon found curious happenings. Every night after they slept, they found animals mutilated in the morning. This continued until they reached the village, and people started dying inexplicably.The tale supposes that they were possessed by demons and their true spirits are trapped in the cave somehow; most traditions assume the cave is overrun by demon spirits. Selvarius' logs acidicly attacks the intelligence of the locals, citing how he detected no such demon presence in the cave using his divinations.A later entry in his log cites the trial of a traveler that arrived in the nearby village shortly before he did. Selvarius recounts the bizarre trial culminating in a capital sentence for the traveler, accused of murder of two in guests the night he arrived. An eyewitness recounted the distinctive silhouette of the traveler's foreign cloak and hat. The man's only defense was that it was not his silhouette, but that of his shadow somehow given life and evil sentience.Selvarius dismisses these as the desperate ramblings of a murderer.This was Selvarius' final entry. He disappeared from that very village in the following week.Next: The Grinning Spire</blockquote>

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