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Broken Meadow, Year of Foundation (YF): 836
For the children of Broken Meadow nothing is as it should be.
In the classroom they are taught from an early age that they are descended from the refugees of the Scouring, a cataclysmic war that destroyed the city of Sanufell – the last stronghold of the Delgardian age. Now they live in a world smaller by far, encircled by a fog barrier maintained by an ancient magic.
But the walls protecting them have begun to close in. The colours of
Broken Meadow have faded; the minds of Sylt folk are failing and their skies are blanketed in a thick layer of permanent cloud. No living Sylt has ever seen the sun, indeed, the word for it no longer exists in their language. Out of desperation some pray to the absent god for help, but Aethelron does not answer, long since departed from their world. And as the memories and minds of the population regress, the overwhelming majority don’t even recognise anything is amiss.
And yet there is one who does: our hero Hopskotch Pestle, who sees things others do not. For in his dreams the gifted Sylt child has visions of the Broken Meadow that should be – alive with colour, smells and sounds unimaginable to his fellows.
Burdened with the knowledge, Hopskotch is driven to return with something special from the annual cicada hunt, a fabled creature of legend with the power to unlock the shackles of dour grey binding the lands and minds of Broken Meadow. For this hunt falls on the cusp of a very special anniversary – the thirteen-year birth cycle of the Golden Duke. |
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