The Obelisks

[winterblood 11181]

[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3fne25pGzA ]

[Prose by Sir Lawrance Alma-Tadema, 1879]

 

 

Scholars of The Library of Dragur are beginning to commonly be found roaming the roads all throughout Axios, giving all passersby tomes labeled, "The Obelisks"

 

The first page begins with, "Greetings, citizen of Axios.  It has come to my attention that the time for us to protect the obelisks scattered about these lands has arrived.  When we first arrived to these mysterious isles, I had discovered two and found them to be quite interesting.  I knew they had some sort of meaning and decided to write information of their locations into a dusty blank book I had picked up on the Island of Malin.  In the middle of my searches to find more of these monoliths, I heard word of an ancient kharajyr priest saying that they received a message from their diety that the obelisks were meant to be protected from a horrid Evil.  They obelisks are used as a key of sorts, holding back some sort of terrible and immense power.  The kharajyr solemnly said that their goddess was struggling to deliver the message, for they were in some great fight.  She managed to say one last thing before breaking Her connection with Her follower; there were ten obelisks to be found.

 

"I had found this news to be quite disturbing and new I mustn't give up on my search for the obelisks.  Months passed and I finally succeeded in my little quest, though years began to go by and nothing else could have been learned from these pillars besides appearance and location.  I felt as if I had nothing else to do but to wait until something were to happen with them, which something has.  Some form of great power is draining the power out from the obelisks seemingly one-by-one.  I believe that if we are to lose all of the obelisks, Axios will be lost, and we'll be forced to leave our homes yet again.  So here are my notes of them all.  A few bits may be outdated.

 

Sincerely,

Nemir Valnelis Ward, of The Library of Dragur"

 

 

Obelisk Near Johannesburg

This obelisk is located north east of the city, just across the river.

[[XYZ: 1238 85 -580]]

 

Obelisk Near Omith

This obelisk can be found just to the right of the grand doors to the dwarven city Omith.

[[XYZ: 1143, 103, -1898]]

 

Obelisk in Hou-Zi Jungle

This obelisk is within the old orcish lands, it stands tall near the center of a large lake.  The lake is near a graveyard of sorts, it’s filled with large fossils to old beasts.  The obelisk seems different that most of the others; it’s larger.

[[XYZ: 2550, 48, 1855]]

 

Obelisk Near First Druidic Settlement

This obelisk was discovered right next to the Druids along the coast.  It’s located west of Oren, south of the druids, and if you follow the coast north from the wood elven city, you’ll eventually run into this.

[[XYZ: 2731, 68, -288]]

 

Obelisk Near Wood Elven City

This obelisk stands right between the dark elf settlement and whatever the strange settlement is with arcane users by Lindandria.  It’s surrounded by lilacs.

[[XYZ: 3236, 111, 1694]]

 

Obelisk Near Haria

This obelisk was discovered just south-west of Al’Kalheed’s front gates, looking over what appears to be another Druidic Grove.

[[XYZ: 1823, 99, 605]]

 

Obelisk Near Sutica

This obelisk stands in a giant lava lake near Sutica.  There are several more lakes of lava within the area, the land surrounding it seems rotted.

[[XYZ: -862, 85, 250]]

 

Obelisk Near Portal to The Sunless Sanctum

This obelisk is located just north of the portal to the Abyss, surrounded by snow drifts and a few giant ice spikes.

[[XYZ: -1975, 98, -2270]]

 

Obelisk Within Haelun’or

This obelisk can only be reached through the upper district of Haelun’or.  It’s located within the mountains that look over the ocean and the city.  I’ve been informed that the high elves plan to start researching the obelisk soon.

[[XYZ: -2739, 207, -192]]

 

Obelisk Near First Warhawke Settlement

This obelisk stands tall on a hill that looks down where the old Warhawke camp used to be located when we first arrived in Axios.  It’s a bit different than the other obelisks as well from appearance.

[[XYZ: 928, 91, 1435]]

 

OOC: Sorry if some things look bad, pretty tired.

[Cat Evocation 3728]

Sarrion would toss the book to the side after the rather long read. "I mean, it's inevitable by now, isn't it? At least the elves should know this." Muttered the unaging elf himself.

[HurferDurfer1 2978]

coltaine goes 

[oblivionsbane 714]

Kalina would take one of these sheets and read it, lips parting.

"Oh no..."

[Kaiser 2347]

"To whom it may concern,

 

 I too have seen the obelisks spread through the lands, and it's sparked my own curiosity. Perhaps, though unlikely, the Kha are correct, and they are some old chains for an evil held beneath the lands, but I have my doubts. Axios had been occupied long before we modern-folk landed here, and all the races and people from eons ago have since left, or died. Obelisks like this may be vestigial parts of old religions, or kingdoms - built in the days when their use was apparent, but have since just wasted away in time. Any host of answers could be brought up to their purpose, but what is currently apparent is that they've done nothing since we've found them to warrant any real answer. We have no reason to fear them, or create conspiracies about what they do, when we have no evidence of such. No offense to the Kha-folk, but one testimony from a priestess isn't going to convince me that the world is ending, and that we should clutch our loved ones in fear of the obelisks and whatever they hold/do.

 

-R. Bauer"

[rukio 8924]

Lily Selothan scratches the back of her head. "Ahh, they'll doom us all."  She shrugs after reading the tome. taking it with her.

[Taketheshot 3834]

Ser Phillip nods "We found these things like 20 years ago in the Company of the Westerlands, I ******* told Berengar they were part o' somthin bigger."

[Norman Osborn 247]

Hektor Blargskogr peers at the book, shaking his head in dread "You lot say these things are going to be the cause of our destruction, so you decide to share their exact locations with the entire world? You lot aren't as smart as I've been told."

[Eurielle 1189]

10 hours ago, UnBaed said:

There are several more lakes of lava within the area, the land surrounding it seems rotted.

Dunstan, whose name roughly means dark stone, gets violently triggered. He starts screaming about volcanoes, volcanic ash, pyroclastic flows, and other volcano related knowledge. It seems someone had appropriated his rocks.

[Lotoke 25]

Enedor's face lights up in interest as he reads through one of the tomes. Giving a short nod of approval, he'd set out to visit one of the obelisks. " And I was beginning to think they truely were nothing!"  He pronounces.

 

[Fawb 557]

Moved to The Great Library. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.

 

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