Connects to: 02.22, 16.16.04, 19.31.04, 49.03 and 50.04.
Overview
Far out into the nightmare jungles beyond the World’s Edge, there lies an enormous pile of reeking detritus - offal, feces and bones. This is the ancestral defecating-ground of the hoarlephants, which are among the most vile and terrible of all the World’s Edge monsters.
More than a hundred years ago now, the Thringish paladin Sir Hyfres descended the World’s Edge on the back of the famed charger Garendar (16.16.04). Before he could complete his quest, both he and the horse were devoured by a particularly noxious bull hoarlephant, and their bones were subsequently left in the bone heap. So, to this day, it is sometimes possible to see treasure hunters and knights climbing over mountains of filthy bone and stinking garbage, in search of the bones of Garendar the Brave.
Connections
- A collective of bone golems is often seen here sifthing through the bones (50.04).
- The Collector (02.22) knows of the Bone Heap.
- The proprietor of the Dead Fish survived an expedition out here (19.31.04).
- Local hoarlephants have begun to eye the nearby dwarven outpost hungrily (49.03).
Hooks
- What weird ecosystem has developed around the bone heap?
- What other treasures might be found here?
- Why was Sir Hyfres travelling so far from Thring?
- Even considering that horses are such a precious commodity, there must have been something really special about Garendar the Brave that people will brave the World’s Edge to try and retrieve his bones. What was it?
