Far north, past the freezing expanse of bone-chilling seas and through channel where the shores are encrusted with ice, one will come to a great cliff, its surface smooth and concave in shape in a cave dark as midnight. Structures of frozen ice – stairs, platforms and such hang from the other end of caves, where mirrors of ice on adjustable hinges stand. What is this straight contraption?
- This cave is the ancient observatory used by a civilisation long ago to observe the movement of the heavenly bodies. The mirror are out of sync with each other, and by arranging them correctly, one would be able to see stars and planets, some unknown to modern astrologers, reflected on the mirror of the ice. However, whoever built this tool has foretelling the future in mind too, for glyphs of all sorts surround the edge of the mirror. A sage coming with the expedition with the adventurers deduce that some disaster is able to happen. Should the adventurer trusts the sage, or do some more digging of their own? There are, after all, libraries of text hidden in acloves around the caves.
- The Mirror of Ice is used as a form of a signaling device. When the mirrors are aligned correctly, and a flame lit on a great brazier at the top of a platform, the smaller mirrors will direct the light to the great mirror of ice, and it would be reflected out to the sea. The question is : for whom is the signal for? What if the adventurers accidentally woke up some ancient races beneath the sea? Or maybe this is what the sponsor of this trip really wants?
- The Mirror of Ice is an abandoned project which was never completed. The goal of the project is to direct the lights of the stars of the Five Magus (see Dragon Warriors, or Bloodsword) into a an ancient artefact which would provide warmth and regulate the weather around the region. The region used to be warm and temperate, but due to the movement within the faerie realms, the climate changes and the mages of the land scrambled for a solution. The solution did work, but has such a baneful effect that they believe it is better to abort it. Now someone is attempting to direct the light of the five sorcerous stars into one beam once more…
Adventure Types: Discovering Lore, Exotic Locations, Exploration
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