The Unsung Bluff

Seek it out or be Imperiled

Believed to be vital in the future of the heblin people, a vision of this astonishing natural formation was granted to a heblin wise-woman. The sense of urgency was unmistakable and led to a massive cultural shift among her people.

At the base of the Reidsole Mountain Range, very near to where the city of Medale would one day be established by human and dwanar stonemasons, one of the first Heart-Seekers in remembered history received a vision during one of her fortelling card readings. The vision was unlike any she'd had before and felt as though she'd been transported to a far away place.

This was long before the Allegran government existed and knowledge of this prophecy has been passed down through many generations of oral tradition among the heblin who commit many such foretellings to memory. The Heart-Seeker, now known only as Josser, made many drawings of what she experienced and spread knowledge of her vision far among her people.

Summary

Upon recalling her vision, Josser included the following information;

• The plateau on which she initially stood was a bluff and overlooked the piedmont below. It was encircled by eight columns that reached roughly fifty metres upward.

• Above her, between the pillars was a swirling aurora of multi-colored light that would drift and warp in the bright sunlight like reflections in shallow water.

• An intense sense of urgency pressed on her mind, somehow telling her that the future of her entire species depended on finding this hidden place.

Spread

Josser and the chief of her tribe immediately sent dispatch riders to all other known tribes across the continent. It's important to note that this event predates recorded human history and heblin tribes were not the mobile communities they're known for today. Although they still used trained animals for many similar tasks, stories remember the heblin of this era as considerably more hostile than they are today, especially towards the growing orc and goblin communities that often threatened them.

Cultural Reception

Oddly enough, this prophecy was widely accepted by the different tribes it reached. Such a massive shift in proposed lifestyle and the inherent dangers it would entail must've been daunting. It's unknown how long the heblin of this era had been living in permanent settlements, but over the following decades it seems like not a single one ignored the call to search for this mysterious plateau.