Anja's Folly
Anja's Folly, also known as "Blondie's Bane," is a Dungeon in The New World, located at the base of the Red Mountains north of Gatefall. Its name is derived from the ill fortune suffered by Anja Lefkaris during her Party's initial Exploration of the site. It is a large stone ruin of unknown provenance thought to have been constructed between 1,000 and 1,500 years ago, around the same time as the Gatefall Obelisk.
It is unknown who built Anja's Folly or why, but it has been inhabited by various civilizations over the centuries. Numerous carvings adorn its walls, though only some were made by the original builders. The only original carvings still preserved are a series of unknown runes arranged in the shape of a pentagon, identical to those which adorn the Gatefall Obelisk's pyramidion, and an inscription written in Stary which reads, "A way shall be opened there. It shall be called the Way of Holiness. It will be for those who walk on that way. The unclean will not journey upon it. Impious fools will not go about on it."
The ruin's innermost area contains a dilapidated shrine, built by one of the various groups to inhabit the structure since its original builders abandoned it. The shrine area contains two intact carvings, both written in Rzekomy. The first, inscribed on an altar reads, "When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes clouds rise from the ends of the Earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses." The second, written on a stone tablet, reads, "Ho, Great Thunderer! Hold us in thy stormy gaze. Send us nary trouble nor plight and illuminate thy foes with death."
Other writings discovered in the ruin, many of which are thought to be graffiti, include a holy symbol of the goddess Tiamat, the phrase "12 Fingers, 0 Brains" written in the Draconic language, and an exaggerated caricature of a Dragonborn. The most recent inscription consists of the phrase "Clodia yet lives" in Rzekomy, and was apparently made by an unidentified Human Bard. The author's skeletal remains were discovered during Exploration of the site, apparently killed by a Landshark. A locket on his corpse contained an engraving, also in Rzekomy, which read "Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love."
It is unknown who built Anja's Folly or why, but it has been inhabited by various civilizations over the centuries. Numerous carvings adorn its walls, though only some were made by the original builders. The only original carvings still preserved are a series of unknown runes arranged in the shape of a pentagon, identical to those which adorn the Gatefall Obelisk's pyramidion, and an inscription written in Stary which reads, "A way shall be opened there. It shall be called the Way of Holiness. It will be for those who walk on that way. The unclean will not journey upon it. Impious fools will not go about on it."
The ruin's innermost area contains a dilapidated shrine, built by one of the various groups to inhabit the structure since its original builders abandoned it. The shrine area contains two intact carvings, both written in Rzekomy. The first, inscribed on an altar reads, "When he thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes clouds rise from the ends of the Earth. He sends lightning with the rain and brings out the wind from his storehouses." The second, written on a stone tablet, reads, "Ho, Great Thunderer! Hold us in thy stormy gaze. Send us nary trouble nor plight and illuminate thy foes with death."
Other writings discovered in the ruin, many of which are thought to be graffiti, include a holy symbol of the goddess Tiamat, the phrase "12 Fingers, 0 Brains" written in the Draconic language, and an exaggerated caricature of a Dragonborn. The most recent inscription consists of the phrase "Clodia yet lives" in Rzekomy, and was apparently made by an unidentified Human Bard. The author's skeletal remains were discovered during Exploration of the site, apparently killed by a Landshark. A locket on his corpse contained an engraving, also in Rzekomy, which read "Let us live, my Clodia, and let us love."
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Lyudmila Krupiński
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