katoomba ♔ while I formulate denials of your effect on me

[moonheart]

♬ Watching You Go - Ghosts

WHO || Alanna, Jaime, Faith, Fiona, Jordan, Adi [Closed]
WHAT || The Knights investigate a shady temple of Mystra.
WHERE || Katoomba, Australia
WHEN || July 24th [forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam. Single thread, don't worry about maintaining tagging order.

The Knights take off for Katoomba, Australia, to investigate a tale of a temple to the goddess of magic Mystra that was erected very suddenly and mysteriously, seemingly unknown to other Mystran clergy in the world.  A bizarre tale of a cleric being chased out with gunfire, and a missing bookseller with a connection to the church have left Wynn worried about what might be going on within the walls of the temple.  It is constructed a short distance from the actual city proper, up the river.  

Comments

[moonheart]

So kind of like clerics here? That's where my mom's magic comes from, anyway.

[trebond]

Exactly like a cleric. I do believe our Great Mother Goddess may even be the very same as the Great Mother that this world calls Chauntea. Both are associated with the harvest, though in Tortall, the Great Mother is the ruler of all the gods. [ Alanna's hand moves to close around the ember pendant around her throat. The goddess had given it to her with one another when she was still Jon's squire—a charm to detect the presence of magic, and one to ward off — well. One she wouldn't be using any time soon. ] She's beautiful.

[moonheart]

I don't think I know very much about Chauntea. My family worships Lurue, mostly, the goddess of good talking beasts.

[trebond]

'Good talking beasts.' What precisely does that include?

[moonheart]

Oh, you know: unicorns, pegasi, talking owls... Lots of things!

[trebond]

Immortals, then. [ At least—that's what they call them in Tortall. They're not truly immortal, not all of them, but the catch-all fits regardless. ]

[moonheart]

Huh? Unicorns aren't really immortal. Just really really old.

[trebond]

Where I come from, that's how we refer to them. The Immortals aren't truly immortal, but they're a far cry closer to divine than the rest of us. Both sorts of unicorn suit the mould. Most of them will live centuries, or until something stops them.

[moonheart]

"Both" kinds of unicorn?

[trebond]

Of course. There's the harmless sort, like the stories children tell, and there's the great beastly ones. Flesh-eaters, they say. Hard to know which are simply stories in the end. No one sees Immortals: they're all trapped in the Divine Realms.

[moonheart]

Flesh eating unicorns? Are we talking about the same thing? Big white horses, horn on their heads...?

[trebond]

Of course. What is it you think the horn is for?

[moonheart]

Alicorns have healing properties. That's one reason people like to hunt unicorns.

[trebond]

Well, I can't say anyone in Tortall has seen one to hunt it, but I can guarantee that the legends are quite clear about the dangers of some of the beasts.

[moonheart]

Well, yeah, they're dangerous. But only to the bad guys.

[trebond]

I'm not certain flesh-eaters discriminate.

[moonheart]

I don't know. Most people eat flesh too. Just not like... raw off the bone.

[trebond]

Quite a gruesome way of thinking about it.

[moonheart]

You're the one who started talking about flesh eating unicorns.

[trebond]

Well, it's not my fault! I thought everyone knew about them.

[moonheart]

All this multi-verse stuff is really kinda confusing, so I can't really blame you.