Winterlands 4 - Dragonstar
Winterlands 4 - Dragonstar
“In those days the city of Bel had been a fishing village, subservient to the vassal kings of the Seven Islands, whose true wealth lay in trade from the south. Through Ernine, amid its luxuriant hinterland of crops and cattle, had flowed the gnomes' silver from the Deep at Droon, and the furs of the northern forests; the Kings had raised palaces there pillared in the golden sandstone of the eastern deserts, and the priests worshiped unremembered gods in marble temples open to the sky. Long after... Ernine had fallen to raiders from the steppe, a second city was built on the low knees and foothills above the Gelspring: Its foundations stood on the more ancient stone, but few recalled what it had been named or how it had met its end.
Descending with the dragon through the pink-gold radiance of morning, Jenny Waynest could make out the outlines of this second city's temples, tangled in brush and thickets of pine all powdered with snow. She'd seen them before only at night, when in the autumn Moon of Sacrifice John had come here to pay his teind to the Demon Queen, the tithing that would purchase back his soul.MoreLess
Descending with the dragon through the pink-gold radiance of morning, Jenny Waynest could make out the outlines of this second city's temples, tangled in brush and thickets of pine all powdered with snow. She'd seen them before only at night, when in the autumn Moon of Sacrifice John had come here to pay his teind to the Demon Queen, the tithing that would purchase back his soul.MoreLess
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