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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7812362" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 237, Part Two</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>The Final Murmur</strong></p><p></p><p>This planar mote was smaller than most, barely ten miles across, and it floated ten miles from Mavisha. As they drew closer, Uru, Uriel and Leon noticed that proximity to the plane was rapidly draining the ship’s arcane levitationals. So they once again mounted the stone discs – which were powered by psionics – and maintained the Coaltongue at a safe distance.</p><p></p><p>The surface of Avilona was mostly barren, with just a few scraggly grasses and brushes inhabited by flightless birds. Angular wind-eroded stone dominated the landscape, with slender uneven arches, knife-like overhangs, and huge boulders balanced precariously on pillars of weaker rocks that had been weathered away.</p><p></p><p>All the erosion was ancient, though. The wind was practically still now, although some unseen presence murmured irregularly, disturbing the silence. Gupta could not identify any meaningful language; Uru could sense no lingering spirit. Uriel, however, sensed the presence of the divine and used location loresight to find out more:</p><p></p><p>The remains of Avilona were the literal remains of something like a dead god. Ages ago, an eagle whose wings spread a thousand feet perished here, and as the elemental air energy that empowered it drained from its body, feathers, flesh, and skeleton turned to stone. Now the titanic petrified eagle lay sprawled on its back. Its neck had twisted in death so its head – skull and eye sockets exposed – lay near its chest. There the killing blow was revealed: its heart was torn out by another equally colossal creature. The cracked ribs were wrenched open, and now the hollow of its breast yawned up to the sky.</p><p></p><p>At the very moment they peered over the lips of the pit formed by this chest cavity, the creature shuddered. Its lungs drew in a thin breath, and its head shifted slightly so one empty eye socket could glimpse unit – bracing themselves for trouble. Then, like a sigh, it exhaled. The continuous murmur ended.</p><p></p><p>Uriel realised that this explained the weakness of air magic on Lanjyr. Only there were already <em>two</em> explanations for that: the eroded, fossilised tree on Axis Island in which the golden icon of Avilona had been embedded; and the failed experiment Kasvarina had carried out on the Ziggurat of Avilona, high above the Cold Claw Sea. How could it be that air magic had always been weak? How could the dragons ever have flown? “And what about Gale?” he wondered aloud. “How can her magic be so strong?”</p><p></p><p>They would find no answers here.</p><p></p><p>“Where to now?” asked Uru.</p><p></p><p>“I think we should go here,” said Gupta, half-joking – pointing at Ascetia on Calily’s chart. Everyone knew how keen she was to go there.</p><p></p><p>“Eventually,” said Korrigan. “Next on our path is Apet.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7812362, member: 79141"] [B]Session 237, Part Two The Final Murmur[/B] This planar mote was smaller than most, barely ten miles across, and it floated ten miles from Mavisha. As they drew closer, Uru, Uriel and Leon noticed that proximity to the plane was rapidly draining the ship’s arcane levitationals. So they once again mounted the stone discs – which were powered by psionics – and maintained the Coaltongue at a safe distance. The surface of Avilona was mostly barren, with just a few scraggly grasses and brushes inhabited by flightless birds. Angular wind-eroded stone dominated the landscape, with slender uneven arches, knife-like overhangs, and huge boulders balanced precariously on pillars of weaker rocks that had been weathered away. All the erosion was ancient, though. The wind was practically still now, although some unseen presence murmured irregularly, disturbing the silence. Gupta could not identify any meaningful language; Uru could sense no lingering spirit. Uriel, however, sensed the presence of the divine and used location loresight to find out more: The remains of Avilona were the literal remains of something like a dead god. Ages ago, an eagle whose wings spread a thousand feet perished here, and as the elemental air energy that empowered it drained from its body, feathers, flesh, and skeleton turned to stone. Now the titanic petrified eagle lay sprawled on its back. Its neck had twisted in death so its head – skull and eye sockets exposed – lay near its chest. There the killing blow was revealed: its heart was torn out by another equally colossal creature. The cracked ribs were wrenched open, and now the hollow of its breast yawned up to the sky. At the very moment they peered over the lips of the pit formed by this chest cavity, the creature shuddered. Its lungs drew in a thin breath, and its head shifted slightly so one empty eye socket could glimpse unit – bracing themselves for trouble. Then, like a sigh, it exhaled. The continuous murmur ended. Uriel realised that this explained the weakness of air magic on Lanjyr. Only there were already [I]two[/I] explanations for that: the eroded, fossilised tree on Axis Island in which the golden icon of Avilona had been embedded; and the failed experiment Kasvarina had carried out on the Ziggurat of Avilona, high above the Cold Claw Sea. How could it be that air magic had always been weak? How could the dragons ever have flown? “And what about Gale?” he wondered aloud. “How can her magic be so strong?” They would find no answers here. “Where to now?” asked Uru. “I think we should go here,” said Gupta, half-joking – pointing at Ascetia on Calily’s chart. Everyone knew how keen she was to go there. “Eventually,” said Korrigan. “Next on our path is Apet.” [/QUOTE]
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