Inspired by Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon and Adapted to Fantasy
Deep in the bowels of the earth, the mining of the dwarves broke through into the Cacophony: A vast substrate of strange, fluted rock through which howled an unnatural gale-storm of subterranean wind.
Others might have destroyed such a place. Or sealed it away to save themselves from its terrible roar. Fortunately, the work of dwarves is fraught with care: “With cautious skill, tap by tap — a small chip of rock and no more, perhaps, in a whole anxious day” they discovered that the whole of the Cacophony was made up of a twisted morass of differentiated spires.
And each of these Spires, when separated from the Cacophony of the whole, possessed a unique and ethereal song of haunting beauty.
For generations, therefore, the dwarves have worked: Carefully choosing and extracting each songspire so that its music can be heard. They are rare and beautiful objects, prized by both dwarves and surface dwellers.
Radical!
Since my campaign world is set in an alternate reality Southern Africa, I will have to steal this idea for Organ Pipes Pass in the Draken mountains:
http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/3521505.jpg
Been waiting to have an intelligent comment to make, and simply add this to the bottom of it — but I guess I’m not intelligent lately…
There is something about the formatting/code for the blog that’s causing the elements on the left column to overlap the body of the blog and cover the first five or six letters of the lines they are alongside. I see this on a newer-ish computer, and my steam-powered, derelict, seven-year-old machine. I making the assumption that I’m not the only one seeing the blog this way…
@Bygrinstow: Glad to hear from you! I’ve had a couple people report this error in the past, but it appears to be very rare and I’ve been unable to duplicate it (which makes it almost impossible to fix). Can you you go this page:
http://thealexandrian.net/wordpress/23503/site-news/site-update-troubleshooting-the-left-sidebar
And tell me what operating system and browser you are using?
Thanks!