As opposed to the human-like business of Lyran’s, this place feels like the one place untouched by breeze or busy-buzzing in the whole of Stormhome. There’s a distinct sense if only brought on by the many eyes watching my Not-Khoravar-Self, of being watched and weighed. Honestly, this is something I get all over Khorvaire, so it doesn’t bother me at all. The incense is heavy and seems to form clouds at the top of the dome. It is peaceful, if foreboding, wary, warning, like a still ocean on a cloudy day. I take a little time to watch the candles…
Vacation in Stormhome: Around Highwash > Matriarch > Lyran’s Hall
I head over to the Matriarch Ward to check out Lyran’s Hall. It’s busy and crowded as the Ten Torches on Wildnight, and most people are there to talk business. Here and there, past scheduling and crewing, past supplies and weather forecasts, I catch snippets of “extraplanar expansion” and “Whole-building relocation”, but nobody answers me when I ask what those are, or how they’re supposed to be accomplished. Rude. Nonetheless, this goes into my “interesting things to follow-up on when you get done roaming about acting like an adventurer,” file. The frescoes and enchanted images and statues, however, are beautiful,…
Vacation in Stormhome: Around Highwash > Pinnacle > Ruins
Headed over to check out the old Gatekeeper ruins in Pinnacle. They are peculiar and very old, and beautiful. I think some of the symbols I see on them are similar to ones I saw in the Cave Heart of Ghaash Dar when I was in the Demon Wastes. More peculiar is that as soon as the symbols catch my eye, they’re gone again. They make my Mark from the testing ritattotual tingle, once, the first time I touch one of them. After that, I can’t make it tingle again by touching any other ruin, nor the same one again.…
Vacation in Stormhome: Around Highwash > Pinnacle > Belgeth
I head over to the Belgeth district in Pinnacle to browse the shops some. All sorts of stuff to look at here with a lot of rare and interesting things scattered about. Pricy stuff so I’m pretty much only looking. The good thing is, we Tabaxi are rare on Khorvaire (rhymes 🙂 and I’ve got decent enough clothes that I’m not immediately kicked out. I keep my eye out for anything that might possibly be from the Dhakaani period and to see if they’ve got any Xen’drikan wares. As far as the Xen’drikan stuff, I would be thrilled to find…