The sea are ever treacherous along the jagged shores of Sinden’s Line, a stretch of coastline littered with the wrecks of many unfortunate ships and the corpses of their former inhabitants. Not far from Sinden’s Line, upon desolate hills, is a light-tower. Every night, a feeble ray of light shines out from it, the only guide to safety in the darkness. Not once in hundreds of years had that light failed to be lit. The mystery is that there are no settlement within miles of the tower and the closest settlement rarely see anyone venturing past the rocky crags which their village stand on. What is the truth behind the light?
- The light upon the tower is more than just to guide ships to safety; it is also part of an enchantment to keep a dreaded sea monster at bay. A magical ruby which bursts into flame when the sun sets is set upon a stand. The blood of faerie creature is needed to keep the ruby’s enchantment going and this has to be done every 30 lunar years. The Elves who built the tower has all but deserted the area and the end of the last lunar year is coming…
- There is still a keeper at the lighthouse, bound by a geas to lit the lamp there forever for his negligence one night; the old man has a fondness for wine and gambling, and a combination of both kept him away from his duty during one stormy night. The ship, which his son was returning on back from a victory during the crusade, crushed. Without his son’s forgiveness, the keeper’s soul would never move on. He is forever bound by grief to tend to the lighthouse forever. But if the keeper’s soul does escape to the afterlife, who would then look after the lighthouse?
- The lighthouse is a mechanism left from a prouder time, the legacy of a people who has discovered principles of mechanics and physics, much akin to the Greek. They built an automated lighthouse which would lit by using carefully a calibrated system of water-clock, sand and tough rope. However, the mechanisms are wearing out soon. A trip to the lighthouse would not only prevent it from breaking down, but may yield great value to a siege-engineer.
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