[HQ Ignorance] Scene 98: Aalmon's Divination

[Lev Lafayette]

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On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 23:21 +1100, Lev Lafayette wrote:
> Under the light of the Red Moon Aalmon makes his mysterious divination.
> Icthya, watching, is curious to see the courier glow ever so slightly
> himself with a white halo. Strange too, the Elf thought, that Aalmon
> seems to struck by moon beams both red and blue. The blue beams seem to
> come from the plateau whose cliff-face lurked in the distance. Icthya
> was sure she could see the shadows of trolls dancing in the moonlight.
> 
> The secrets that Aalmon sought were trivial to his ability to discern
> secrets, even those as hidden as the Blue Moon Trolls, followers of the
> goddess Annilla. Annilla was the child of Nakal, the Primal Darkness,
> and Zaramaka, the Primal Waters. Her husband was He Who Moves and she
> was Queen of the Giants of old, who fought against the Dragons.
> 
> Her husband was killed by the dragons and Annilla ate the remains. After
> that she gave birth to a souless child, and Annilla possessed the body.
> When she did this she became the Blue Moon. Defeated by Yelm and
> Dayzatar she fled to the underworld, and prepared to invade the sky
> which she did by summoning an ancient blue dragon. Disguising herself as
> a corpse shroud she blindfolded Yelm, but when Death came to the world
> where she was broken apart, some say by Orlanth, some say by Mostal,
> others say by the Rat With Hands, others say by the Serpent with Fur.
> The Blue Moon Plateau is the largest piece of her broken body.
>