Connects to: 14.11, 19.04, 23.11, 45.09 and 50.30.
Night after lonely night Lord Ward (19.04) keeps watch over the night sky in his lonely tower for he knows were true darkness lies. It is not, whatever the dwarves may tell you, under the earth (see darknesses), for even the depths of the Sunless Sea is warm and where there is warmth there is light.
True blackness is cold and is above, not below, in the darkness behind the stars. Every so often a chunk of this darkness falls to earth, burning the air around it so that it looks almost like a star.
This has not happened often in the last century, but just last night Lord Ward on his tower top saw a meteor hurtling towards the earth, striking down in a cow pasture not far from Winds. He has already strapped on his old sword and is hurrying to the site of the impact and hopes to move it to holy ground or bury it deep before it can hatch.
Connection:
- Kobolds indirectly spring from a favour granted to dragons by the “darkness behind the moon.” Is that the same thing?
- Meteors that fall from the sun are far more benign (50.30).
- A demon that fell in a meteor is now trapped in a tarpit in the Lornfields (14.11).
Hooks:
- What hatches out of meteors?
- Moving unearthly things to holy ground makes sense, but why bury it deep? Is the earth full of buried demons? When will they hatch?
