ShadowPlay
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- Joined
- Dec 24, 2023
- Location
- Scandinavia
The City of Calipahs
Late in the evening.
Pharast 15th
Late in the evening.
Pharast 15th
It was a quiet evening in the city of Caliphas. The rain was pouring lazily, like it never really wanted to go into a full shower, and the full moon only showed itself momentarily between the heavy clouds overhead.
Inside his home, Samuel was sitting in his small bedroom. The television in the living room was showing the news channel, with his parents paying attention to the news about the first space station over the planet. The international collaboration had taken almost ten years and billions of taxpayer money to create the first habitation of the face of Golarion.
Sammy was looking at the small figurine on the table before him. It was the most beautiful white swan. The beak seemed to be made of gold and the feathers looked like the purest ivory, yet it was light as a feather. It had not looked like that two hours ago when he began to clean it up. Sam had found the amorphous lump, of what had then looked like mud and dirt, on a school field trip to the Isle of Cartor, a short ferry ride from Caliphas. He had gotten separated from the rest of the group and had tried to find them when he had head a voice calling him. It was a soft and sweet voice that called out his name, more in his mind than with words of sound. The mists had swallowed him as he had moved down a rarely trodden path.
And there in a small clearing had been a well. An ancient looking well. It looked like it had stood there for centuries, forgotten and secret. Samuel couldn't explain how he had known to remove the second brick from the top and find the hidden lump in a secret chamber within. But as he reached out to take the ball of clay and dirt, it had spoken to him more clearly. Promising him the love and dreams that only he knew about, if only the glory of Arshea would once again be recognized.
On the way home from the island, Sam found himself gazing though the mists back toward the island where he had found the strange dirty lump of material.
The next day, Samuel had gone to the library to scour any information about this Arshea. He had never heard the name before, but as he read the books it became apparent that Arshea was an ancient goddess or perhaps an angel that was active in the age of lost omens, centuries, if not millennia ago. To think that something as old as that had contacted him and made him pick up that object made Sam's head spin. He needed to find out more. Just because magic was real didn’t mean it was something someone like Sam would encounter on a regular basis, and ancient forgotten gods. Now that was another league all together.
So here he was sitting in his room with the amazing, delicate figurine on the table before him. He knew he needed to share this with someone, with the one person in the world that meant most to him.
With careful, silent steps, he went to his sister’s door. The news anchor on the television had moved on to the news about the lychanthrope killer claiming their fourth victim, this time a young werefox, his parents were still engulfed by the news. But Samuel’s mind was something completely different as he gently rapped on his sister’s door. “Madeline, are you awake? There’s something I need to show you.” He said with a soft voice. “Can you come to my room?” He asked before returning to his room to wait for his sister.