**Inspired by: **Endermen, Minecraft
Connects to: 19.31, 20.18, 23.32, 33.00, 46.00 and 49.03.
Overview
In the central park of Jahar (19.31) is a chain of dark marble obelisks, each indistinguishable from the one three paces before and the one three paces after it. Towards the end of the chain is a gap of six paces.
Half an obelisk of identical size and make, though toppled on its side, has been unearthed on a cliff overlooking the Maw (46.00) by a band of Hoard (33.00) dwarves who reported the discovery to the Foolish Sages (20.18) but otherwise refused to explain their business by the Maw.
Simple farmers who live near the obelisk report that by night strange tall figures - half again the size of a man - appear around the obelisk. They shift dirt and stone, reshaping the landscape for their own inscrutable purposes. Whether they are violent is unknown; recently some members of the town have gone missing.
The children have recently learned or invented a nursery rhyme that warns against making eye contact with the ‘Men of the End,’ because when it is broken they swallow you up and carry you in their bellies to their homes. The children will not comment on who introduced them to the rhyme.
Connections
- The obelisks commemorate the reign of the Cephalopedic Empire (23.32).
- Dwarves take this route when travelling to their outposts beyond the Edge (49.03).
Hooks
- Who are the Men of the End?
- What is their home?
- How did the children learn the rhyme?
- If people have been stolen away, how can they be retrieved?
- Why is the one obelisk misplaced?
- Have the Men of the End appeared in Jahur too?
- What do the Jahuri think of the obelisks?
- What were the Hoard doing by the Maw?
- Why is there a village here in the first place? This is one of the most desolate and remove corners of the Shrouded Lands.
