Commission for foulfrost where a new world awaits.
Below you can read the story that they wrote to accompany the scene above.
( recommended music along with it to set the mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHNKWeH8ths )
"My son,
As my end nears, I feel obliged to impart.
There is an explorer's dream, to find such a place where none have been before. To set foot in a place untouched, to lay eyes upon marvels unseen, to hear songs and sounds unheard. And to feel as if, in this moment, there were nothing but you and this pristine oasis, belonging only to eachother.
I heard of one one such place that I wish I had seen before my time. A jungle of azure light, where – it is said - things live that people would only dream of. A place of beauty beyond anything we know but so deadly that the few who are said to have laid eyes upon it returned smiling before dying, if they returned at all.
This Azure Jungle, where we are told the trees glide across the sky to land upon unsuspecting prey, where toxic pollen waft on a gentle breeze to choke the unfortunate, where creatures so massive they tremor the earth, impale what we would call mighty behemoths upon jagged spikes in mighty struggle. Where a clear and silent water surface hides only terrors and each gentle caress of light and love is followed swiftly and remorselessly by death. A mistress to love but once.
If such a place were real, how I wish I could have loved her, in my twilight years. To see the twin moons beam down upon a battlefield masked as a meadow. To see, more radiant than anywhere in the world, if word is true, Eada's path gleaming above. Imagine seeing her lighted way and for a moment, feel that perhaps the old stories are true and that the All-Mother left a trail in the sky for her children to follow. However impossible it may be.
Permit an old man his follies, for none die without some regret, imagined or not. Still, I wonder, if beyond the seas, over the mountains, and deep into the wilds, there is indeed such a place. What I would not give now, to die there and not here, in this musty mansion, laden with blankets and pampered by nurses, choking my soul more than my breath.
What sights might I have beheld? What creatures might I have seen... Indeed what creature might even survive in such a place, I must wonder. To endure from a young age the hardships of this unforgiving place and live and love in spite of everything. Perhaps to become at ease with it all that to them it might not even be the dread place it would be be to outsiders, but a Garden of Eden, where all things have their place. I can but guess.
Do not mistake my intent, my boy, it is likely folly to seek such a place. But it is important, when surrounded by tall walls, walking upon paved roads and conversing with naught but clerks and clergy, to remember that our world is so much bigger than that. And that the only means of grasping it, is to never stop seeking what lies hidden from our eyes.
- Transcript of a letter from Sir. Julien Rice, head of the Heldhall Explorer's Guild, to his son Vincent Rice."
Below you can read the story that they wrote to accompany the scene above.
( recommended music along with it to set the mood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHNKWeH8ths )
"My son,
As my end nears, I feel obliged to impart.
There is an explorer's dream, to find such a place where none have been before. To set foot in a place untouched, to lay eyes upon marvels unseen, to hear songs and sounds unheard. And to feel as if, in this moment, there were nothing but you and this pristine oasis, belonging only to eachother.
I heard of one one such place that I wish I had seen before my time. A jungle of azure light, where – it is said - things live that people would only dream of. A place of beauty beyond anything we know but so deadly that the few who are said to have laid eyes upon it returned smiling before dying, if they returned at all.
This Azure Jungle, where we are told the trees glide across the sky to land upon unsuspecting prey, where toxic pollen waft on a gentle breeze to choke the unfortunate, where creatures so massive they tremor the earth, impale what we would call mighty behemoths upon jagged spikes in mighty struggle. Where a clear and silent water surface hides only terrors and each gentle caress of light and love is followed swiftly and remorselessly by death. A mistress to love but once.
If such a place were real, how I wish I could have loved her, in my twilight years. To see the twin moons beam down upon a battlefield masked as a meadow. To see, more radiant than anywhere in the world, if word is true, Eada's path gleaming above. Imagine seeing her lighted way and for a moment, feel that perhaps the old stories are true and that the All-Mother left a trail in the sky for her children to follow. However impossible it may be.
Permit an old man his follies, for none die without some regret, imagined or not. Still, I wonder, if beyond the seas, over the mountains, and deep into the wilds, there is indeed such a place. What I would not give now, to die there and not here, in this musty mansion, laden with blankets and pampered by nurses, choking my soul more than my breath.
What sights might I have beheld? What creatures might I have seen... Indeed what creature might even survive in such a place, I must wonder. To endure from a young age the hardships of this unforgiving place and live and love in spite of everything. Perhaps to become at ease with it all that to them it might not even be the dread place it would be be to outsiders, but a Garden of Eden, where all things have their place. I can but guess.
Do not mistake my intent, my boy, it is likely folly to seek such a place. But it is important, when surrounded by tall walls, walking upon paved roads and conversing with naught but clerks and clergy, to remember that our world is so much bigger than that. And that the only means of grasping it, is to never stop seeking what lies hidden from our eyes.
- Transcript of a letter from Sir. Julien Rice, head of the Heldhall Explorer's Guild, to his son Vincent Rice."
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