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| ====== Summary 366: Tomb of Ornovar One-Foot; and the King-Who-Walks (2024-11-15) ====== | ====== Summary 366: Tomb of Ornovar One-Foot; and the King-Who-Walks (2024-11-15) ====== | ||
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| An Enerali (pre-Galanini ancestors; “primitive” Godtime horse people of Ralios) Hero named Ornovar One-Foot proved himself mightily in battle against Arkat in the First Age, near Hrelar Amali; beheading the leader of an East Ralian Sun Domer cavalry unit. The horses of the defeated were buried there. But soon Arkat’s forces ralied and defeated the alliance at Hrelar Amali. Ornovar’s fate is unknown. That skeleton might be him, or a proxy. The Wizard-Sages found, via trading networks, a First Age magical shield with inscriptions that attributed it to Ornovar One-Foot, and called upon the “ancient alliance with the King-Who-Walks”. In their studies, they learned that the Sharic clan has a strong bloodline leading back to Ornovar. They kept investigating this for several seasons until clues led them to Ridalstead, said to be close to Ornovar’s tomb, where they hoped to find the secret of this King-Who-Walks. They did so under the auspices of Erengazor (Archon of Sentanos; and who was one of the big players in the struggle to prove Arkat ancestry and power; but fallen on hard times) herself, who became very interested in the project, probably hoping to gain new magic for Sentanos County. | An Enerali (pre-Galanini ancestors; “primitive” Godtime horse people of Ralios) Hero named Ornovar One-Foot proved himself mightily in battle against Arkat in the First Age, near Hrelar Amali; beheading the leader of an East Ralian Sun Domer cavalry unit. The horses of the defeated were buried there. But soon Arkat’s forces ralied and defeated the alliance at Hrelar Amali. Ornovar’s fate is unknown. That skeleton might be him, or a proxy. The Wizard-Sages found, via trading networks, a First Age magical shield with inscriptions that attributed it to Ornovar One-Foot, and called upon the “ancient alliance with the King-Who-Walks”. In their studies, they learned that the Sharic clan has a strong bloodline leading back to Ornovar. They kept investigating this for several seasons until clues led them to Ridalstead, said to be close to Ornovar’s tomb, where they hoped to find the secret of this King-Who-Walks. They did so under the auspices of Erengazor (Archon of Sentanos; and who was one of the big players in the struggle to prove Arkat ancestry and power; but fallen on hard times) herself, who became very interested in the project, probably hoping to gain new magic for Sentanos County. | ||
| - | A question that the Sages sought answers to, and Idotus still is passionate about, is who this King-Who-Walks truly was. This becomes clearer later but is the horse Ornovar’s magic horse or something, or just a horse? | + | > A question that the Sages sought answers to, and Idotus still is passionate about, is who this King-Who-Walks truly was. This becomes clearer later but is the horse Ornovar’s magic horse or something, or just a horse? |
| Bog stomps out of the tumulus; he’s had enough and remarks to Fraud that if Ornovar was an Arkat foe, maybe this place should be ruined. Many Solar/ | Bog stomps out of the tumulus; he’s had enough and remarks to Fraud that if Ornovar was an Arkat foe, maybe this place should be ruined. Many Solar/ | ||
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| > The King-Who-Walks then is a horse, but more than this probably, and that is where the Sages’ insights end. They had hoped to learn more, and some of that connection is in another item. | > The King-Who-Walks then is a horse, but more than this probably, and that is where the Sages’ insights end. They had hoped to learn more, and some of that connection is in another item. | ||
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| - | [well known to some of you: the preceding Hippogriff myth, which goes something like this: Hippogriff underwent a series of painful and humiliating experiences during the War of the Gods and the Greater Darkness. First she met Valind in raging battle and her proud fangs were broken out of her mouth so she could no longer bite. In a fight with Humath, Hippogriff’s legs were broken and her bronze claws were ripped from her feet, but Ehilm was able to replace her feet with hooves. The greatest loss was when Zorak Zoran tore off her golden wings, laughing as he robbed her of ever returning to the sky. In some myths, the final ignominy is that Hippogriff is saddled and made a servant by mankind. Others see it differently, | + | > **[well known to some of you: the preceding Hippogriff myth, which goes something like this: Hippogriff underwent a series of painful and humiliating experiences during the War of the Gods and the Greater Darkness. First she met Valind in raging battle and her proud fangs were broken out of her mouth so she could no longer bite. In a fight with Humath, Hippogriff’s legs were broken and her bronze claws were ripped from her feet, but Ehilm was able to replace her feet with hooves. The greatest loss was when Zorak Zoran tore off her golden wings, laughing as he robbed her of ever returning to the sky. In some myths, the final ignominy is that Hippogriff is saddled and made a servant by mankind. Others see it differently, |
| Under the stone tablets, a small wooden diptych holds very thin vellum leaves; 17 smaller pieces of vellum have been cut out and used to make some rubbings of some strange, engraved script (from the golden tablets that the Wizard-Sages had found through various excursions and connections before coming here, and studied but not collected). Around the rubbings, marginal notes document the work (and perplexities) of one of the Wizard-Sages, | Under the stone tablets, a small wooden diptych holds very thin vellum leaves; 17 smaller pieces of vellum have been cut out and used to make some rubbings of some strange, engraved script (from the golden tablets that the Wizard-Sages had found through various excursions and connections before coming here, and studied but not collected). Around the rubbings, marginal notes document the work (and perplexities) of one of the Wizard-Sages, | ||
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| Angry red-skinned men, twice the height of a man, with long hair and multicoloured wings, stand in the middle of the crater, some distance from you. Smoke and fumes blossom as their breath. They carry burning spears and flaming stones, and are clad head-to-toes in red-gold plates of metal. A sizeable salamander accompanies them, having gushed out of cracks in the ground. Bog puzzles over what these beings are, of Earth/Hell or Sky? They have the look of both perhaps. Yet you have no time to puzzle further—the beings immediately launch into violence! | Angry red-skinned men, twice the height of a man, with long hair and multicoloured wings, stand in the middle of the crater, some distance from you. Smoke and fumes blossom as their breath. They carry burning spears and flaming stones, and are clad head-to-toes in red-gold plates of metal. A sizeable salamander accompanies them, having gushed out of cracks in the ground. Bog puzzles over what these beings are, of Earth/Hell or Sky? They have the look of both perhaps. Yet you have no time to puzzle further—the beings immediately launch into violence! | ||
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