Post by Head Moderator on Feb 12, 2017 20:18:04 GMT -5
STORY 1
Deep within the Bristleback Mountains in the maze of tunnels that surround Gimthur of the Dwarven Kingdom Valdrok, there is a a shaft within the mountain that is home to a pair of waterfalls in a cavern of carved faces. The two waterfalls fall from the eyes of a female that is believed to be the likeness of the dwarven queen of old. A devout follower of Helga and Medra who would cry and pray for the warriors and souls that had to leave their home for battles long ago. Her tears were so great during one period that she created a river that began to run down the mountain and grew a forest thick around the base of their mountain making it hard for those that didn't know how to get in the city to find the right passages. Heroes have long since been carved into the wall amid the stoney face of the queen and her forest to allow her tears to bless those whose likeness feels the spray of the falls. Loved ones doing this for centuries knowing that the queen is crying and asking for Helga and Medra's blessings until they come home or the situation is fixed.
STORY 2
Le Crie de la Vie (The Cry of Life)
In ages past, a lonely woman in the Madder was having no luck at all, so they say. Married five times, to honorable good men, all of whom succumbed to some illness or tragedy exactly one year after the nuptuals. People assumed she was some sort of black widow, marrying men for the thrill of killing. Each husband, she loved with all her heart, each husband gave her a child, sometimes more than one. And yet, the fates cursed each husband to be taken from her after a single year of bliss. She cried nonstop, but soldiered on for the sake of her babies. After a decade after the last marriage, she met a man. A man who refused to turn from her, despite the rumors of his death being imenient. He carved her face in the rock of a mountain, he took care of all seven of her children, and for five years, she avoided marrying him. Finally, when her last child was grown enough to take care of himself, she consented to marry him. On the one year mark, she expected to start planning a funeral, but nothing happened. And for the first time in years, she ceased crying, tears drying up.
He was killed the next day by a nobleman who wanted her hand in marriage.
The noble was arrested for murder, and put on trial. The story emerged that he killed each of her husbands, hoping that she would get desperate for coin, and turn to the streets, and he could 'save' her. But she always perservered. Once the guilty verdict was handed down, she returned to the statue he had carved. Her tears resumed, and the statue.. also cried, tears of purest water. Some say she died there that day, others say she lived until she was old and venerable, nobody knows for sure. Her name and her children are lost to history. Some say the pool itself below the statue can heal the broken hearted, blessed by the Goddess of love herself. The only thing for certain is the statue is a reminder to everyone in the Madder, to keep living.
OPTION 3
Since both deal with two different cultures, why not just have both stories. The dwarves have one tale, and Maddish citizens have another? We'd put it in Madder and change the mountain range to fit with location.
Deep within the Bristleback Mountains in the maze of tunnels that surround Gimthur of the Dwarven Kingdom Valdrok, there is a a shaft within the mountain that is home to a pair of waterfalls in a cavern of carved faces. The two waterfalls fall from the eyes of a female that is believed to be the likeness of the dwarven queen of old. A devout follower of Helga and Medra who would cry and pray for the warriors and souls that had to leave their home for battles long ago. Her tears were so great during one period that she created a river that began to run down the mountain and grew a forest thick around the base of their mountain making it hard for those that didn't know how to get in the city to find the right passages. Heroes have long since been carved into the wall amid the stoney face of the queen and her forest to allow her tears to bless those whose likeness feels the spray of the falls. Loved ones doing this for centuries knowing that the queen is crying and asking for Helga and Medra's blessings until they come home or the situation is fixed.
STORY 2
Le Crie de la Vie (The Cry of Life)
In ages past, a lonely woman in the Madder was having no luck at all, so they say. Married five times, to honorable good men, all of whom succumbed to some illness or tragedy exactly one year after the nuptuals. People assumed she was some sort of black widow, marrying men for the thrill of killing. Each husband, she loved with all her heart, each husband gave her a child, sometimes more than one. And yet, the fates cursed each husband to be taken from her after a single year of bliss. She cried nonstop, but soldiered on for the sake of her babies. After a decade after the last marriage, she met a man. A man who refused to turn from her, despite the rumors of his death being imenient. He carved her face in the rock of a mountain, he took care of all seven of her children, and for five years, she avoided marrying him. Finally, when her last child was grown enough to take care of himself, she consented to marry him. On the one year mark, she expected to start planning a funeral, but nothing happened. And for the first time in years, she ceased crying, tears drying up.
He was killed the next day by a nobleman who wanted her hand in marriage.
The noble was arrested for murder, and put on trial. The story emerged that he killed each of her husbands, hoping that she would get desperate for coin, and turn to the streets, and he could 'save' her. But she always perservered. Once the guilty verdict was handed down, she returned to the statue he had carved. Her tears resumed, and the statue.. also cried, tears of purest water. Some say she died there that day, others say she lived until she was old and venerable, nobody knows for sure. Her name and her children are lost to history. Some say the pool itself below the statue can heal the broken hearted, blessed by the Goddess of love herself. The only thing for certain is the statue is a reminder to everyone in the Madder, to keep living.
OPTION 3
Since both deal with two different cultures, why not just have both stories. The dwarves have one tale, and Maddish citizens have another? We'd put it in Madder and change the mountain range to fit with location.