Connects to: 15.19, 29.14.07, 29.14.08 and the City of Shuttered Windows.
On southern shore of the Keening Sea, where the Burning Lands meet the water, there is an island just out to sea, connected to the land by a stone bridge. For centuries it has been known by no other name than Drowning Place. This island is the stronghold of the Whispering Sisters (29.14.07), though some argue that there are more members of that cult in the City of Shuttered Windows than anywhere else. The nunnery where they dwell is hidden by steep cliffs and sub-tropical undergrowth. Rumor has it that it is also accessible by a secret path on the seaward side of the island.
The location’s name comes from the strange properties of the stone bridge. When men (not women) pass exactly halfway across the bridge, they are suddenly struck by a suicidal mania and immediately hurl themselves into the water below. Those who survive the fall will swim to the shore, climb up to the bridge and leap off again.
Because of this, the armies of the Shuttered City have never been able to destroy the well-defended nunnery, much as they would like to. However, in recent years Lady Eliana, one of the Doge’s twin wives, (29.14.08) has been attempting to organize a company of all-female soldiers to march on the Whispering Sisters.
Connection:
- Sir Waine, a paladin (15.19) of Thring raided the holding of the Sisters here to rescue his squire from them.
Hooks:
- What strange rituals to the Sisters of Drowning-Place get up to?
- Is the bridge’s power a spell cast by the Sisters, or something older?
- Will the Doge’s wife succeed in her plan?
