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The Journal of Thorne Babblebrook: The Foothills of the Gelder Peaks
Of my recent journey into the Gelder Peaks, I must recount one extraordinary event. While mounting the foothills of the Gelder Peaks, just barely outside of Lilyvale, and hiking for no more than half of an afternoon I stumbled across a dwarf druid. A sturdy, and rather surly being, who squinted suspiciously as he looked about the mountainside. It seemed quite odd to find a dwarf who still studied the druidic arts, for I had thought most of his kin had left such ancient rites and rituals to what they felt were races of lesser sophistication. Regardless, this particular dwarf was mid-incantation when I came upon him. He was standing in the midst of a boulder strewn field, just nearly above the timberline. I could barely make out the words he mumbled, the ancient dwarvish he spoke sat heavy on his tongue, and most phrases were slurred beyond recognition. I could make out a few simple, one of which I will translate for you here: “… of earthen skin, and rocky bone … rise soil, rise roots, rise wood, and stone …” After a few more undecipherable mutterings the began ground shaking suddenly with a light rumble and the very mountainside moaned as one awaking from a restful slumber. My curiosity making it impossible for me to remain hidden any longer, I poked my head out from behind the bush where I knelt. The dwarf continued to utter his ancient verse as I crept out silently and stood transfixed by the wondrous site. Then, with finality, the dwarf raised his boney staff skyward and thrust it down upon the earth. A rush of wind shot up the side of the mountain and before me in the clearing, boulders that were once mere objects became an animate thing. Stones swirled, and congealed, and fell somehow into place. Then the wind died down, the moaning stopped, and where there was once nothing but air there stood a stone giant. A living pile of rocks, a fabled elemental forged from the earth…
From the journal of Thorne Babblebrook
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The Journal of Thorne Babblebrook: The Foothills of the Gelder Peaks
Of my recent journey into the Gelder Peaks, I must recount one extraordinary event. While mounting the foothills of the Gelder Peaks, just barely outside of Lilyvale, and hiking for no more than half of an afternoon I stumbled across a dwarf druid. A sturdy, and rather surly being, who squinted suspiciously as he looked about the mountainside. It seemed quite odd to find a dwarf who still studied the druidic arts, for I had thought most of his kin had left such ancient rites and rituals to what they felt were races of lesser sophistication. Regardless, this particular dwarf was mid-incantation when I came upon him. He was standing in the midst of a boulder strewn field, just nearly above the timberline. I could barely make out the words he mumbled, the ancient dwarvish he spoke sat heavy on his tongue, and most phrases were slurred beyond recognition. I could make out a few simple, one of which I will translate for you here: “… of earthen skin, and rocky bone … rise soil, rise roots, rise wood, and stone …” After a few more undecipherable mutterings the began ground shaking suddenly with a light rumble and the very mountainside moaned as one awaking from a restful slumber. My curiosity making it impossible for me to remain hidden any longer, I poked my head out from behind the bush where I knelt. The dwarf continued to utter his ancient verse as I crept out silently and stood transfixed by the wondrous site. Then, with finality, the dwarf raised his boney staff skyward and thrust it down upon the earth. A rush of wind shot up the side of the mountain and before me in the clearing, boulders that were once mere objects became an animate thing. Stones swirled, and congealed, and fell somehow into place. Then the wind died down, the moaning stopped, and where there was once nothing but air there stood a stone giant. A living pile of rocks, a fabled elemental forged from the earth…
From the journal of Thorne Babblebrook
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