The worm beats the water, and the eagle screams -Poetic Edda, Benjamin Thorpe translation:
Connects to: 30.15.01 and 46.06.
Overview
Several miles out of Fernsbank (01.09), where a sand-stone cliff rises out of the trees, an extraordinary scene is played out in stone: the skeleton of a burning eagle (30.15.01) is frozen in battle with the exoskeleton of a grey worm (46.06). By some sorcery, both have been stripped of flesh and transformed to stone.
The same skeletons are a site of pilgrimage for stone giants, and it is not unusual to find one of those solemn beings in meditation before the fossils. According to the austere and solemn teachings of the Stark Way, the bones represent the triumph of earth over both the power of fire – the burning eagle – and that of water – the grey worm.
Connections
- This seems to confirm the claims made by one of the bosses of the Wedding Band (30.15).
Hooks
- Was this a climactic elemental battle?
- What process turned them to stone?
- Where do the stone giants come from?
- Where can one learn the Stark Way? Is it only practiced by stone giants?
- There’s a philosophical martial art called The Stern Way - is it the same thing?
