Connects to: 09.09, 10.10, 11.08, 16.16.10 and 22.25.
This is a pleasant region of low rolling hills dotted with wildflowers and small clumps of trees offering quiet green shade. Or at least it would be quiet green shade if not for the giant bees (10.10) that often fly through this area.
The most notable feature of this hex is a life size alabaster statue of an impossibly beautiful maiden. During one night a year in the high summer a strange haunting lament in an unknown tongue comes of the statue, as if the statue was singing it. The local halflings (11.08) dismiss the statue as “haunted” and steer clear of it, which would be wise to do in any case as the wild growth of wildflowers that can be found around the pedestal draws the giant bees.
However, behind the wildflowers are strange runes written into the pedestal of the statue and is it not strange that the statue has not been worn down in the slightest by wind and rain?
Connections:
- The runic script resembles that found in the Forgotten City-State (22.25).
- The Sparrow Knight hopes to make Princess Elandra cry, and thus win her hand, by telling her a story of this statue (16.16.10), claiming that the statue was a woman turned to alabaster by her elemental lover (09.09).
Hook:
- What is the statue singing about? Why does it sing?
