The Cyclopean Palm

Area Aspects: Titanic six-fingered hand rising out of the ground, unknown and indestructible substance, deep excavations, rumored staircase A great hand carved of smooth black stone rises in the center of the village, its palm facing the sky and its thumb and fiveforgers splayed out. The cyclopean stonework is nearly forty feet high—tall enough that buildings have been constructed around it and a tavern sits underneath the shade of the back of the hand.

Deep clefts have been dug in around the hand's wrist, confirming that it is attached to a forearm descending far beneath the ground. The age of the stone hand jutting out of the ground has never been accurately determined, and its origin remains unknown. Its stone is seemingly impervious to damage, and resembles no other type of local rock.

A number of explorers and miners have tried to dig out the rest of this ama zing construction over the years. However, most such attempts were abandoned when their crews began to complain of nightmares filled with strange buzzing sounds. Some of the clefts left behind by these excavation efforts still exist, with old rope ladders leading down roughly one hundred feet to the bend at the elbow of the arm.

Currently there is a new attempt to excavate going on but it has been difficult for the local lord to find volunteers.

A rumor continuously floats around Whitesparrow talking of how the hand's wrist is hollow, and of a staircase carved into it that leads down below the surface. A chamber within the arm is said to be the boundary between two worlds. However, most pass this rumor off as a fantasy, spoken of by drunkards and sketched onto false maps sold for a few silver to travelers awed by the spectacle of the cyclopean palm.