Connects to: 51.12.
Overview
The land is barren here, in a narrow gap between the Keening Sea and the World’s Edge. One of the few features of note is a small split in the dry earth, running northeast, into which has been inserted a huge wedge-shaped stone ten feet high. The point of the wedge is driven into the crack, while the flat top appears to have some sort of runes engraved upon it. If translated, the runes read:
All shall be as it was in the beginning. Drowned Andara again shall see the sun; black Serpantia, kingdom of worms, shall sleep beneath the waves.
What Melnir (51.12) did shall be undone; what the Traitor Prince did shall be undone; what the Drowned await shall come to pass.
Look to me when the Hammer of Bronze is forged anew. Look to me on the twelfth night when the sea boils. Look upon me, ye of Serpantia, and despair. Sages say that the names Andara and Serpantia refer to ancient kingdoms, one of which was situated in the lands which are now the Keening Sea, and the other in the lands beyond World’s Edge. The meaning of the rest of the inscription is currently unknown.
Hooks
- Where are the lost kingdoms of Andara and Serpantia?
- Who was the Traitor Prince and what did he do? Was he the Prince of Men, or someone else?
- What is the Hammer of Bronze?
- Could this stone be used to drain the Keening Sea into the sunken lands beyond World’s Edge? Who would want to do such a thing?
