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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8338979" data-attributes="member: 6796468">In Achelb, the valley city, city of thieves, home of wonder and vice, there is a tale which is shared from miner to miner. It speaks of a man named Moadi. Moadi was born to slaves within the green valley, and raised to farm and to gather for the great city upon the hill in the shadows of the mountains. But this was not the life he wished. He thirsted for freedom and sought it.Moadi took up a hammer from the barn before returning to his sleeping chamber in the night. And as the watch checked to see the slaves were secured, his hammer flashed out and crushed the guard's skull. Bathed in blood, he used the hammer to shatter the pins of the door to the pen and fled across the green valley toward freedom.But the guards of Achelb are cunning. And as he sought the pass they snared him in a trap of clever devising, another slave was trapped along the path in a gibbet, and called for aid. And as Moadi brought his hammer upon the lock the guards fell upon him with clubs and cloaks. Imprisoned, his master sold him to the mines that he might be rid of the man.Moadi in the mines took up the hammer anew. But no simple bludgeon would break his chains, no. And the guards watched his every movement down into the darkness of the mines. Deeper, and deeper, they delved into a cavern of blazing heat and river of stone. And it was there that Moadi made his escape.With the molten rock he weakened his chains. With hammer in hand he destroyed his captors, and deep he fled into the darkness beyond the river of fire. It is said that he wanders the darkness, yet. That his hammer rings out upon stone far beneath. As he continues to seek a path back to the world from his new prison of stone and shadow.But I have heard it said in hushed whispers beneath furtive gaze, that Moadi did not remain in the darkness. That what he unleashed in the depths below rose up and haunts the mines he worked. That some ancient terror stalks the mines of Achelb... though if you speak such things you will be quickly dismissed. The mines were closed as they played out. Not for fear of demons in darkness.Not for fear of Moadi's Hammer.-The Chronicler-Like the story of Am-Tet, this could be a literal tale or a myth couched in metaphor hiding history. Moadi's Hammer could be a Slavebreaking Organization looking to break chains across the land. Or it could be a magical weapons empowered by death, freedom, and the Dweller. Or even the Mountain itself. It's a tale that could be told from different sides, like the story of Isra and Ukada.</blockquote>

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