Here, there is - the CastleWorld Gateway
into -the ֆtor₼Lands >⸗ϟ~؉
Kryxxiea lies, still - Ϟ further beyond,
in the Polar region of the North,
You may travel via this:
Castle-gateway access
into the StormLands
edge of the Naturalis`
~ ~ ~ ^^ - the Shrouded Henge. ~
The Shrouded henge is here, - this Upland Sanctuary, secluded from the Harsh rainy winds, provides
temporary respite.
this druid Henge Circle is a Travel-point into tƕ Ƥꜳꞡꬱn Ϣorɭɠ
-the Focus of the Pagans culture is their Woodland Shrines, their reverence of Nature, the Henges & Nature
Worship is unique to their Realm. It is preserved for years to come, and this, it provides sustenence and life for the region. this in turn resolves worship.
A Land filled with mystery,and strange rites.
A RainLand,of zealous cults,
the old Goddess' worship of
Tṻnare is now rareified
in the Rainworld and pagenlands,
a rain-worhip religion lost to time, now only
followed by a strange few isolated hermits.
-the Thunder & Storms of the world of rain\\\... bellow across the skies, a faraway land, particular in it's lost chasms .. & charms... ...
the Land sings warm emotions, clawing around you is the: ScarraBush -~ wet ferns, wet stumps, A valley-frond
of overgrown lilies. Thisis the dense tribal-wetlands now...
the rain is torrential, Unyielding.
the peatland beyond: aglow with pond-borne evolution, these are the echos of a long lost civilization..
bird calls shriek across the valley's remit....
the sky asunder with uncountable raindrops~.
the nearby sounds of the Rushing waters of a Fall are present,
spring lily flowers bloom in the warm waters, as lighting & storms rumble across the distant sky.
This is the terrain of the Wetland, the Fens. the Shrouded Lands...
birds fly amongst evolutionary waterzone typess; floating all around are glow-flies, sea-snakes slither silently beneath the Watery Coves. better be careful where we go.
&
wetland canivorous plants teem across the foreboding landscape.
A fearie city seems to abode these hills.
perhaps they have sanctuary?
these Waterways seem impassable... You notice something in the forest.
you are not alone. there are others in the forest over the other side of the river.
is there is a way back? who are they?
the river meanders backwards... there is a bridge,
Below the RiverBay opens, ships pass occasionally, on way to the Rainlands citadel.
Or we can cross the ropebridges, perhaps bargain with the villagers, wherver they are...
If you chose to walk across the ropebridge, a Green female Sylvan being stops you to Speak to you read here:
Hey!! GreenEars!! you, my friend. I don't bite, nor will you. This, wait. I saw you
coming, like a whitetoees, making noise in the bush. rustly rustly you made.
Yes, quick , this canopy above. Watch your step. its quite a fall. the Rapids below... its quite a torrent. this.. Ruined Citadel... its ours now... You'll see.
one side of the Vallery. It is fallen. Benaath the waves. that citadel is pracarious, lost to Sea, & Ocean. the Tempest World is stronger than ever before...
but this place. is our secret. Beware of the Zealots, their faction is not aware of us.
But this Wizard's citadel, leads into this same Ruins of the Tempestcitadel, it is quite a complex architecture . . Be aware. everything is not as it seems. there are strange forces at play.
You must make haste, my Angel.
the folorn world will guide you. Even if it says it
would not. the water speaks to you. This place, this Rainlands
citadel there is a way inside. But only if you have the correct
magicks.
there is much more intracacy to it the ritualists hide their secrets..
If only you can learn... And that i cannot tell you, for it is a secret of the RainWizards only.
~the RainLands [-Outer-reach Citadel-] __>\
~the protectorates of the Wildlands,& its sublime rainworld, guard this forested domain.
the strange , Zealot's Citadel, sits atop the Rainlands, Over the Valley of the RiverWorld...
its presence? whom is it for? At present, the interiors of the Citadel seem enclosed.
no clear entrence seems available..
Other Options seem to be to Travel via the Axis Mundos of the Water--Citadel~~
We may be able to cross the walkways to the other side of the Citadel: into the Riverworld
...And the city slumbered...
...another rainy night.....
the Residents of the Outer Citadel Wards surely dryly stashed away in the Tower~Houses.
Not many souls walked the Castle-grounds in the rainy nights...
Their world lay somewhat Pale ,dormant. The city Span rumbled through the Mist. the overgrown Tree-Sprouts lunge among the breached outcroppings.
the Gatewaylands : -
the Arcane Gates (dimensional pillars) This is is the CastleGround;. ownership of the Wizard's of the Pagan factions... the castle ground do provide Gateway Portals:
Voyage, on the Air~Zephyr, will take you on over into
the Next Valley, Over the Mountain-pass,
off into the StormWorld:Tower-gateway.
...these, times..days.
the rain spakest to thus.
~do not hear, without heeding.
strangeness. strangeness comes... soon...
- these ones,protectoratores of the domain have not come,
but IsheI hs here still, look. stop.
follow, us.. into the Riverworld if you can...
You have entered :
Zone channel_: ~the Shrouded RainLands
(the Urraziz Wetlands)
the gateway over the canopy forest from the Hypoborean lands was welcoming enough... Mists dispered all over the peaks ~
...
There is an opaque tension in the air ...As you arrive over past the Skytop's Citadel's walls.
the dark heave of a skyZepplin, buffeted by the windy gusts - its engine & tarpulins flapping & spluttering in the rainstorm.
~the GuardKeeper greets you intently;
unkeenly,but he smiles, and nods. AS he makes eye contact:
"I'll let you go. Traveler."
- "
passing through the RainLands gate. In these hours? You may arouse suspicion."hmpf,
"Tread warily, my friend. This place is nothing but a swamp. -"
- The same spiralling inter-connect of Tower-citadels, Spans
gracefully across the UpperWall, seperating the Altitude-Lands with the plunge into the Fallen domain below -that form across the Great-plateau on
the ridge of the Mountain is here, -the Monasteries, Gloomtower,the KeepCity, Elysium
itself, too a part of this heiriarchial network of Spires up on the plateau, this outpost
in the Rainlands another one of these quasi-regional Spire-states.
And in the Rainlands: religion before politics.
~ the suchness of the sacredness of the energies & leylines here,
Shroud and drench the land in an ancient mystery... this is where the
Hermits seek refuge, this is where much of the Folorn World exists, in this
strangely overgrown wetland, of mists, thunder, craggy spires, lakes, rainfoests<
But here: the Throne of UrZa Castleworld
extends its ropey annulis; its tenuous
hold on Nature....
the Rainlands Outpost is on lockdown.
Zealot stormbringers have seized
the interior and blocked access. But
there is a Gate here, a doorway back
through the mountain; into the
Hypoboreal volcanic pass, where Elysium
is also, where the Hypoboreal Wilds
descend the scrubs into Vale & Desert, Moors
but here - the shrouded valley wades
through the lost-ancient Ruins of
the Old Citadel. A Land lost to Rainfall,
sunken forever under its humid Pale Sun,