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About a days walk south of Windreach and little to the east lies the Moonlight Escape. Tucked away safely beyond the Vine Forest the Escape, as it is shortened to, doesn’t look like it lives up to its name. No, for this is not the location one travels to see during the day for when in Syna’s light all that can be seen is the destruction of the Djed Storm of 512 AV. Nothingness, a wasteland. Even the dirt looks dry and cracked. Here, a pool of wild Djed has collected in the Escape, poisoning the area. The air is charged with a noticeable energy, even to those who are not initiated into magics, and the land has been warped beyond recognition.
Here is Moonlight Escape, the barren wasteland of magical energy pooled to fuel the many unexplained phenomena that happens there. When one steps onto the cracked and dry earth it seems to churn a little, the earth restless as if it’s trying to tell a story, as if it’s been given life by the djed that saturates the area. Most take this as a warning to go back, but others look over the area and see only wonder and unexplained mysteries. For across this wasteland, crags of stone rise into small peaks and allow the climber to observe with more knowledge of the land the layout of the Escape.
Climbing to the tip top of one such peak might allow the climber to see the exact area of the Escape, for its funny that it seems to end so suddenly going only a mile in each direction. The Escape is anything but big, though some say its big enough for the rocks and stone that cover the area nothing is allowed to grow there, and nothing will ever grow in the soil taken from the Escape either.
Dull, barren, without personality and bland are good ways to describe the place. The stony peaks that rise from the ground, commanded by the Djed to do so, are the only defining characteristic of the place. Though, if one were a geologist or avid rock collector one might find a mutated stone or two, carrying with it some unusual properties, such as crystals that absorb sunlight itself and glow at night based on how much sun they have absorbed. Indeed many curiosities have been found lying in wait, but for each curiosity that is found one will find there is just as much, if not overwhelmingly more, of the dull and everyday stone.
The Moonlight Escape isn’t called The Moonlight Escape because of its appearance in the day (or moonless night for that matter). What makes the Escape the Escape is how it appears under the light of the moon:
What once was a barren land filled with small earthen peaks flattens out like the light itself quells the lands frustrations, and whispers to it, allowing it to become something more. Under Leth’s light a paradise is shown, and the very nature of the land changes. A meadow sprouts from rays of silver, the grass taking an almost metallic shining hue thanks to the dreamy and almost magical light which molds the landscape. Specks of silver dot the place where the sterling grass fails to grow making the place sparkle with breathtaking beauty.
In the center of it all forms a pond that only appears on full moon nights. The rays of the moon sparkle and dance atop the water. The water itself is charged by the power of the moon creating a florescent, mirrored surface, and if taken out of the pond the water would glow like the moon in the sky. Casting very minimal light, the water isn’t sought out for that property, but rather what it does to plants and animals that drink it. Those that drink it will no longer be visible or able to affect the physical world while not in the direct glow of the moon. They are changed, some say cursed, by the Escape. The only way to break the spell is to drink of such waters again.
Dotting the area are trees speckled about. Their long branches and huge trunks indicate their age. Touching the sky and under the light they too grow strong, their leaves changing from a dull grey to sparkling silver depending on the phase of the moon. The closer it is to full the more color and life the trees will have, the closer the time to the moonless nights the trees will appear more dull and ordinary. Everything touched by the light of the moon will have the lights hue to it, and visitors to this paradise find it hard to describe the wonders the moon does to the land.
Though the land and foliage isn’t the only wonder that draws people to the place, Djed warped wildlife too is another major attraction. Luminous bugs that cast silver light fly about blinking off and on, unique fish can be caught in the pond, and songbirds whose lyrics and form can only be seen under Leth’s light appear. That and many more animalistic wonders are drawn to the place. Though a word of caution would be advisable, for not everything that comes there is harmless
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