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+# Tales
+Zakhara month names:
+*  Taraq
+*  Masta
+*  Magarib
+*  Gammam
+*  Mihla
+*  Qawafil
+*  Holy day of Ahad
+*  Holy day of Atnen
+*  Holy day of Salas
+*  Holy day of Arba
+*  Holy day of Yasad
+*  Safa
+*  Dar
+*  Riyah
+*  Nau
+*  Rahat
+*  Saris
+Months have 30 days, and the five holy days don't have any months,
+they just come after 30th of Qawafil and before 1st of Safa.
+Första taraq börjar året,
+nästa masta kommer näst.
+Magarib, gamman har knopp i håret,
+Mihla, qawafil blommar mest.
+Safa, dar och riyah,
+härlig sommar är det då.
+Men nau och rahat
+och saris är så grå.
+## #boatmode Session Zero
+The party is
+*  Jalara abd-Jamil, a bugbear corsair
+*  Djut, a goblin corsair
+*  Keeze, a goblin sa’luk
+*  Na’im al-Qadib, an air genasi flamewind sorcerer
+Everyone has a shared goal: to get onboard a ship by capturing the Sea
+Ghost. Unfortunately they don’t really know much about that ship.
+The two corsairs also want revenge on the pirates on Sunless Island.
+Keeze and Na’im have a shared past… that they don’t know about.
+They’ve both suffered memory loss. They used to be level 12 characters
+with some kind of relationship – the nature of that relationship is
+still a mystery – but one of them used a Wish “I wish we had never
+met” which reset their lifes and wiped their memories. Back to
+level 1. Back to the old fishing village.
+### Keezes dagbok
+jag vet att jag har minnesluckor men det är ändå inte så konstigt
+efter alla fester jag varit på och allt man rökt, druckit och testat på där
+ta det lugnt?! haha nej det kommer inte hända. måste ju hänga med
+i svängarna, skvallra, dansa och allt det där... jag är en livsnjutare in i märgen
+men... det känns som att jag har varit vassare med kniven och snabbare på fötterna
+eller att jag borde vara det, en mycket märklig känsla... det känns som deja vu varje gång
+jag lär mig något nytt!
+fast jag kommer mycket väl ihåg mitt kall och uppgift här i livet... ja även vi tjuvar har vår heder
+och mästare som ger oss uppgifter ibland
+jag kommer också ihåg mina drömmar om att en dag grunda en stad för alla tjuvar, tiggare,
+gatubarn, rövare och andra på samhällets botten
+som en ny Hawa ungefär... jag har varit där en gång, det minns jag, ett fantastiskt ställe!
+och givetvis kommer det finnas plats för ett rejält bibliotek för vad vore en fest utan er magikers
+fyverkerier och konster?
+men först måste vi hitta ett lämpligt ställe att grunda en stad på och för att göra det så behöver vi en bra båt
+## Previous months
+- 1494
+    - [Taraq](al-qadim/tales/1494/taraq)
+    - [Masta](al-qadim/tales/1494/masta)
+## Magarib 1–2
+### The Tale of the Soul Dagger
+Acererak created the dagger from a shard of the soul monger, a magical
+skullgem, a ring of intelligence, smoke of his breath, and the heart
+of a dragonborn, and the stone itself is in fact a fragment of his own
+life.
+The dagger is made from the soul of a living natural creature, and it
+cannot be healed from the death of a living creature. The soul in
+question is the mishap of a living creature, and the dagger is the
+destruction of a living creature. The dagger is never killed, as it is
+a living creature, and the destruction of the mishap is always the
+death of the living creature.
+The dagger can be used as a weapon, as a tool, or an ordinary dagger.
+When al-Bek, the Kahin, ordered Sir Bradford to destroy the dagger,
+the ghosts inside were restored from the evil forms Acererak had
+turned them into and their souls found peace among the planes.
+Even as the plane guardians watched their numbers dwindle, their
+sovereigns continued to look on with hope and goodwill, and the Vizier
+of Fate also continued to watch the trouble with which the planeshifts
+were carried out. When the planeshifts had been completed, Vizier
+Hajama ibn Abd al-Waqadah, the God of Courage, was among those who
+were most disturbed, for the change that he saw was not one that he
+had been warned of.
+### The Tale of al-Karakas' Ring
+Four plain golden rings were forged, one for each of the four heroes.
+Sharwin al-Hukra, the Wind/Sea mage. Her brother, Talgen, the corsair,
+and his corsair friend, just going by al-Karakas. They had been joined
+by an outland warrior, Sir Bradford, who carried the legendary
+Shatterspike.
+They each had their names carved into their rings. And swore to always
+wear them as they were meant to be the everlasting party.
+They kept on coming up from night to night, but one night they had all
+been at their lodgings, when the evil spirit of wanderlust that was in
+them gathered them all together, and took them to the palace, where
+the pumpkin-headed queen was sitting on her throne.
+Al-Karakaras was Treasury, and was the first to wear the ring, but
+many of the Masters of the trade are not great, and know well enough
+all the plots of the Enemy, having been appointed by him. He is the
+First to salvage the sheep of the Desert, and to wander over more
+lands than any other, for a simple desire to see the light, and a
+desire to have the best of the best of the apples for his fellow
+sa'luks to eat.
+### The Tale of the Watch Captain
+Krag is what they call me.
+Two times every day, Eli had looked out over the dead horizon. I had
+watched him, almost every time, seen the rays of sun dance over his
+neck of sand and earth, as he looked out over the water. His name for
+the sea was his roaring, crashing danger.
+That danger was not how he died.
+Neither the waves nor the dunes claimed him. Humanity did.
+A man with white clothes, a red sash, and a silver ring with a golden,
+embedded symbol of a scimitar had struck him down. Openly in the
+street. Apprehended immediately, of course, by the confused guards.
+With Gellan al-Pirwa, the godfather of smuggler bands, still in jail,
+the guards were lost at sea with Mahnaz in exile and Eli dead.
+Jumlat's influence over Safaq is slipping rapidly, and perhaps that's
+for the best. I was never as invested as Eli was in the sultan and his
+affairs. I was happy to work with my hands and shovel during the day,
+and read into the wee hours by candlelight in the evening.
+I feel just lost as lost as the guards, as Safaq as a whole. I haven't
+looked over Eli's financials yet or how I'm gonna pay for this place.
+I am still living in his house. I still use my own room. I still read
+Eli's books. I still use his towels, still eat off his plate. I am
+still stretched on his grave.
+## Magarib 3–13
+### The Tale of Barnacle Bess
+A bard cast Awaken on a crab, and the other missionaries were deeply
+moved by the crab's dedication to Hakiyah and named her Barnacle Bess.
+She loved singing, and especially singing hymns dedicated to Hakiyah's
+wave of truth, and the most famous of them is
+Weeping, my beloved,
+who adores
+the sea and the land,
+Our hearts are filled
+with the sorrows
+of our own tears.
+We have vowed to give
+you our lives,
+for you are a great one
+O Hakiyah!
+They say that the one who
+is most beloved
+is the greatest of matters,
+and that the greatest of
+the great is the
+greatest of the lesser.
+I have sworn to you,
+to give my life
+to find out what is true,
+O Hakiyah!
+She was adored by the missionaries.
+The Faith Ethoist of Hakiyah is gradually becoming more secular; the
+priests now involve themselves in local issues, and the faith is more
+familiar with the settlers. The faith is also less invited to be
+involved in politics.
+In the present day, the faith is a highly respected institution, often
+referred to as the Widow's Keepers because of its passage of years.
+The faith remains one of the few institutions in the Land of Fate to
+keep a watchful eye of the latest arrivals of holy slayers and mamluk.
+### The Tale of the Founder's Story
+Rubban Safaq bin-Jute himself assembled a force of half the people of
+the city, together with the sultan's vizier, to confront the hags,
+lead by Evanore bint-Rūm.
+Safaq and his crew defeated the hags and their fish, and they had a
+great victory.
+When Evanore and the other hags saw their fate, they were filled with
+regret and stayed in captivity. They were allowed time to think of a
+plan, but when they did, they found that the time for their escape was
+short. They took a ship from the city, but when they got there, they
+were met by a swarm of hounds who took them prisoners. They prisoned
+them in the palace, but when they had been taken there, they set about
+making their escape.
+When they got there, they had to bear a great deal of cruelty and they
+had to eat the flesh of five hogs. Each of them had to go through the
+streets of the palace for a whole day, but when they were brought back
+and told that the palace was empty, they got up and left.
+When Safaq saw the shipwreck and the slaughter, he was satisfied and
+said: "This is a wicked and treacherous race and they are all doomed."
+### The Tale of Henrietta's Jewels
+Henrietta's Jewels & Appraisal is a merchant's shop run by a misfit
+who is also a wizard. The shop is full of exotic and exotic items,
+usually hidden under the tops of bookshelves.
+The shop is respected by the local gentry, and is often visited by the
+stables of the Black Riders, who have complained of the shop due to
+the number of odd (and colorful) items they see there.
+The shop is usually full of exotic and exotic items from top to
+bottom, but the problem is the shopkeeper's son. The shop also sells a
+wide variety of gemstones, but the shopkeeper's son is more interested
+in his own jewelry and accessories than in dealing with the locals.
+Henrietta herself is a merchant who frequents the canteen and bath and
+mooch. She has no idea why, but is still fond of it. She also has a
+dimmish but fond sense of humor.
+## Magarib 14–19
+### The Tale of the Last Fels
+As you all know, this eulogy is for Rumfels, who was eaten by an orca
+earlier today.
+Rumfels was usually alone. Half-elven, half-human, and with an
+ambiguous expression, who liked to wear a big, loose cloak of camel
+wool, originally brown but worn thin pale gray through many years on
+board sunny decks.
+The craftmanship of this cloak must've been superb originally because
+the one time I saw them take it off, not a stitch was loose. It was
+only the cloth itself that was being worn threadbare, day and night,
+almost exposing the quilted lining.
+Their bahrayin's rucksack contained several balls of twine, some finer
+thread and needle, a mess kit, a tinderbox, and a durable, heavy
+lantern.
+A couple of times I saw them at the docks, marveling at the tales of
+sailors from other ships especially when they had sea creatures or
+exotic treasures on display.
+As far as I know, they grew up on the high seas, but those seas never
+lost their sense of wonder and fascination to them. Often looking
+wistfully at the sun glittering on the waves of the Golden Gulf and
+further south, on the Crowded Sea itself.
+I asked them once where they had gotten the name Rumfels and at first
+I couldn't hear their mumbled reply. I asked again, and they said,
+still softly: "Because I always set aside my last fels, my last copper
+piece, for some rum."
+### The Tale of the Skeleton's Advisor
+The House of Dhi'b, or as some call them, the Sons of the Wolf, are
+ruled by an old, gaunt sheikh, Anwat al-Makkar, nicknamed the
+"skeleton". He is not long for this world. His granddaughter Moira
+al-Dhi'b is too young to rule.
+Anwat's advisor, the legendary sha'ir Mamun bin Harun bin Hamid,
+traveled to Hiyal to search help but was referred to the gnome rulers
+of Sikak. Those rulers did not open the gates to this scruffy sha'ir
+with his al-Badia–accented Midani. They did not let up whether they
+knew of his reputation as commander of genie.
+On the island village of Samak, he received the hushed whispers:
+"Bring your young ruler-in-waiting to the hakimas on Saliam Island".
+Eager to return home, he signed up with the Sea Ghost Trading Company
+for passage home to his tribe in the deserts west of Ajayib.
+### The Tale of the Botched Raise
+Thirsty Salt is what they call me, and me and my best friend Clever
+Copper are acolytes here at Safaq's Hakiyah mosque.
+Petitioned by the residents of Safaq, Na'wa min-Hakiyah, the new
+priest, had attempted to raise the guard captain, Eli, from beyond the
+shroud between life and death.
+Accompanied by two of the novices, Hafam and Zobeiza, they commenced
+the hour-long, solemn process. Suddenly, after just a few minutes, we
+heard a terrible commotion, screams and… and a snarling, wet sound.
+I, and Namarida, one of the novices here, rushed up the stairs and on
+the other side of the door we saw a horrible stillness. Spatter on the
+wall and floor and the three of our fellow clergy, with whom we break
+bread before every vesper and after every laud, dead. Their injuries
+too gruesome to detail, but, seemingly committed by tooth, claw, and a
+curiously precise assortment of needles.
+Eli's own body still on the slab, not a drop on him.
+## Magarib 20–21
+### The Tale of the Veteran's Cane
+This veteran's cane, and when you have been given this one,
+you will help him carry it.
+He will not be injured by it,
+but it is not safe to be too full of it.
+He may get rid of his fears and doubt,
+but he will not be hurt by it at all.
+He will not be hurt by it, but in the name of Hajama,
+as a traveler in a state of great danger.
+I see that you are a man of understanding,
+That is one of those who know the truth.
+When he had finished, the imam got up and said: "I have heard, O
+merciful king, That there is a stranger among the people of the city,
+As tall as a mountain with a beard like a peacock."
+This veteran's cane is as a white ornament: it is used to keep them
+like the enamel in a vase or as a mirror:
+It is used by sailors as a weapon for striking with
+and some as a weapon when they are being fond of us.
+When their druggist makes his or her bed, the two of them are in the
+habit of drinking wine together and eating, and sometimes they make a
+peaceable companionship; but they are as a rule never together.
+All in all, I prefer to take the chains and, if I are beaten, I will
+follow your example.
+If I find myself in a place where I can't get away, I will cut my own
+wood and burn my own stoves, and so on.
+His eyes glinted, and his heart beat like a spring in the storm.
+His apprentice, the faithful quartermaster Captain Xendros, said:
+"In such cases, I dare you, my master, to pick a quarrel with me? You
+are the one who brought me up, and I have been wronged by you. In that
+case, it is not for me to give you a choice between me and him, and if
+I am beaten by you, I shall cut my own wood and burn my own stoves,
+and I shall then have to fight for you. I do not think you can make
+the choice, master," said the merchant with the burning mouth, "and it
+does not please me to hear you complain of the wrongs you have done me
+and of the injustice you have done me. You are a coward, and I shall
+strike up my own shop on the coast of the Crowded Sea."
+### The Tale of the Ancient Vestments
+The Loregiver tells of an amira in the twelfth century.
+With a group of soldiers, they expertly escorted the amira through the
+streets of the district, where she was met by a small crowd of
+onlookers. Her presence was also noticed by two rulers of the palace,
+whom she had in her service. The latter were the husband-to-be and the
+younger daughter of the vizier, and that is to say, the two who were
+killed in the palace.
+The palace guards, who had been watching over Gana in private but as
+usual remained in and out of her presence, were muttering to
+themselves: "How could she be killed by the palace guards? We shall
+not know about this until the day after tomorrow night." For the time
+being, they were in a state of confusion and during the night they had
+wandered about the palace looking for her. They had not noticed her
+before, and as for the vizier, he had not been able to sleep, as Gana
+was still in the palace with the guard servants, and so he had only to
+stay awake for a while.
+By the time the next morning dawned, he was still in the palace.
+Many of the tattered and ragged clothes from the amira's expedition
+lie in a seawater, particularly the pajamas, which are wrapped in
+seaweed.
+Shibali herself has a strong dislike for the guests who
+flee the palace, but she recognizes the value of them
+after reading their stories and the stories of the
+marids, for the storytellers and the mariners are all
+in the palace.
+She is extremely jealous and jealous of the guests. She is only
+allowed two nights in a week, and in the first night she sleeps with
+only the servants of the palace. She has a nightmarish sense of humor
+and is quite unable to sleep. She has been known to wear accessories
+and wear out their lives, so she has no qualms about being seen in the
+palace.
+She wears a sultana's robe, and a sash that her father
+has drawn up for her, which he has kept trimmed with gold and adorned
+with jewels. She is besotted by dreams of gold, jewels, and spices,
+and each night she has a special night-time ritual: a night of
+drinking, dancing, and singing.
+Her festival is held every year on the first of the month of Saris,
+when a party of Pantheon League treasure seekers (gathered here by a
+wealth of the nearest cities and towns) ride out to meet the sultana.
+These entertainments are chosen from a large roster of exotic items
+and special effects, arranged in an exotic but worthless and corrupted
+fashion. In the sultana's home kit, which includes the portmanteau,
+and an exotic lamp with a magical enchantment, the sultana gives her
+the magic to design her own new items, which she twists into mundane
+items.
+### The Tale of the Acolyte's Flame
+My compatriot is betrothed to Istishia
+but I have pledged myself to Imix.
+My worship burns in your presence,
+And your knowledge is more powerful than the night.
+Your light is like the moon.
+Your certainty is like the fire.
+Your knowledge is like the dawn.
+Your power is like the morning.
+Your answer is like the dawn,
+and your peace is like the dawn.
+You are the Lord of the funeral pyre.
+Your truth is like the elders.
+Your will is like the beasts of burden.
+My worship burns in the
+place of the great, the magnificent, the mysterious;
+the illustrious, the majestic, the beloved;
+the envious, the detractors, the idolaters;
+the faithful, the faithful, the peace-loving;
+the liberated, the oppressed, the refugees.
+The sun, moon, and stars of heaven,
+the swift, the swift, and the swift,
+the beautified, the blessed, the free, the gracious,
+the prosperous, the excommunicated;
+the way of the righteous.
+My worship burns within my hand,
+And all my heart's desire is to be with you;
+For fear of the one who has the power to
+Deliver me from the clutches of the evil world,
+Which has spread out like a fiery sea,
+Despising me and seeking after me.
+It is the wish of my heart that I should be your slave,
+And your slave is my desire;
+You who have given me a ship,
+And the rudder of which I can lift,
+And a beating heart that is set upon you.
+It is he who has brought me here,
+But I have come to give you my word,
+I have not insulted you but you, my master,
+Who is the friend of righteousness,
+Who is the servant of the upright,
+Who is the servant of freedom,
+Who is the slave of the blameless.
+## Magarib 21
+### The Tale of the Poisoned Water
+From Jumlat, reports come of thousands dead by poisoned water.
+Tourists, who did not realize that this haunted place was haunted by
+demons, and by the ghost of the dead, who lived in the shadows before
+the advent of the enchanted market. In the dark of the night, even the
+noble.
+The city is cloaked in grey and still, and the buildings are seen in
+the distance.
+The wind chirps in the trees and the gurgling water and the horse
+galloping down the road.
+It is only one of the many cities and towns where the dark magic of
+the Brotherhood of the True Flame is kept in check.
+And the corpses of the dead are kept in the hall of the palace. When
+the palace guards see people's dead, they take them to the palace and,
+if they can get them, they pack them into sacks and transport them to
+the palace, where it is dressed and decorated with colorful horns and
+other decorations.
+There, the dead are kept in a large storage room, in the center of a
+small courtyard.
+The palace guards are constantly on guard to ensure the safety of the
+palace, since the palace is guarded by a long wall of stone with large
+iron gates.
+Inside the palace gates, the dead are caged, nearly
+up to a yard in the wall.
+There are no people to see them, and the walls are covered with a
+thick, impervious copper coating that prevents too much light entering
+the palace.
+### The Tale of the Forced Surrender
+They call her Silver Map. She carries on without one of her sisters.
+She was a warrior, said to have fought the efreets and
+sons of the great ones. A great sage was once her brother.
+Her sister has abandoned her, and she has sworn to protect her
+from the sun and the moon, from the light of the
+long-dead gods, and from the heretics. She has sworn to
+destroy all the heretics and never let them stay in the
+sultan's lands. She has turned away all the others, but
+she has no other sisters, and her sister has married the
+sultan's son, who is her husband. The sun worshippers are
+proud of this, as is the sultan himself.
+### The Tale of the Burial Chambers
+The burial chambers on abd-Yson island, where the dead are buried
+like the animals. The island is inhabited by desert birds, and it provides
+their nesting areas. There are caves and sandy beaches here, where
+the birds can rest in peace and their eggs can be hatched.
+The burial chambers on abd-Yson island, as well as the shrine to the
+cold elements, terraced with white marble, was restored to its
+original state.
+The mass graves of the House of the White Mage are filled with
+skeletons of their former homes.
+The White Mage is the key to the archipelago's secret city. The
+bishop of the city, Ghedd, is a hulking brute with a scimitar in his hand.
+The result is that he is always in the dark about the truth of the
+matter, and always appears to be a student of the dark arts. He has
+since grown distant from his former friends, and his reduced to bitter
+bitterness and jealousy. He hates the White Mage and their dealings
+with the marid, who are a constant and very near companion.
+He has settled on abd-Yson island, where the nobility worship the cold
+of ocean. The dao kingdom is also not far from here, but this island
+is surrounded by the waves of the Crowded Sea. Though the palace is
+sepuchral, transformed to a place of burial. Sometimes the propaganda
+of the city is carried by the acolytes themselves, who are too lazy to
+keep track of the marids and the waves.
+## Magarib 22
+### The Tale of the Entombed Saint
+Saint Sheeda min-Hakiyah lead the ships to port. This is well known to
+Gavlan and the queen, for the two of them have tended their lives to
+be close friends. Gavlan is a great merchant, and purveyor of the
+queen's favourite kind of wine. The first event of the day was a
+routine call made by the Ramelan merchant. The queen had come to the
+city to see her children, with the goal of seeing the children's
+gardens and the royal palaces. She had been told by her father that
+she should go to watch the children's gardens on her own. The merchant
+said: "The queen is coming."
+"The next morning, the ship was turned back, and when the sailing
+vessel had been brought up, I told the captain that I wanted to free
+him from the hold."
+I laid hold on him, and when the ship was about to be set on its way,
+I said: "Why don't you go off with the captain and tell him that, when
+he was off, I was going to get him killed." ""I don't know where he is
+going," he said, "but I shall go with him."
+He then drew his sword and attacked me, and when he had cut off my
+head with a knife, I threw him on to the mast where he cut off his
+head. Then, as I was lying on top of him, I jumped off from him and
+ran off, with the flags of all the Pearl Cities flying above me. Then,
+when I had gone, I walked up to the captain and said: "I am Sheeda."
+"Tell me," he said.
+"I have been told," said Sheeda, "that the Zakharans are our friends
+and that you have brought us here." "By God," said the captain, "I
+have nothing to do with that. I am a stranger, but I have heard from
+you that it is the Zakharans who brought us here." "Where are the
+boatmen," she asked, "and where have they come from?" "From what land
+have they come," he answered, and when she asked where they were to be
+found, he said: "The great city of Huzuz."
+Saint Sheeda min-Hakiyah lead the ships to port, and then, when the
+ship is the color of the sun, they sail by the shore.
+When the ships are out of the harbor, she is seated on the
+teak-throne, and when the ship is on the caliph's coast, she walks in
+procession with a cup of wild figs in her hand.
+She walks next to the shore, where she stops and is joined by the
+princess, who sits down by her bed, as does Sheeda "Amakim before the
+caliph." The first princess sits down beside Sheeda, and he begins to
+talk to her like a spokesman for his father. When he has finished, he
+is joined by the caliph. His father is sitting on the throne, and
+Heidar is standing beside him, while the princess sits beside him. She
+doesn't see any difference between the two of them, but Sheeda thinks
+so as well.
+### The Tale of the Wave Axe
+A weapon of fey. The name speaks for the specific unit of those who
+lost it; for example, it is called the Wave Axe, or a name in the old
+tongue that meant "wavecutter" among the Princes of Air.
+The Wave Axe in the hands of a master, when in the spite of the fact
+that a servant of the god of the sea is not a wizard, the god of the
+sea is more powerful.
+In the wildlands, occasionally, the adventurer may encounter an
+imprisoned nocturnal monstrous creature that may be a djinni, a
+madman, a savage sailor, or a vile halfling, depending on the type of
+terrain.
+### The Tale of the Demon's Ending
+Acererak's armor of demon leather is unbreakable, and it is fully
+enchanted to resist pain; transferring the pain to the armor, which
+screams for every hit.
+The armor is the only thing that the kahina wears that is more stylish
+than an armored figure-head, and it is the only thing that the weary
+traveller wears that is more sophisticated than a rutted dress. The
+armor is also made by the efreet Gullog. The armor is said to have
+been made long after the reign of the great Queen, and this is
+truthfully so, for the armor was made very long ago by the old abbot
+of Al-Kulmoth, an efreet.
+The armor was made in tribute to Acererak from the skin of a leprous
+demon. The armor is studded with pale slivers of demon horn.
+An ancient, but well-honed, device.
+## Magarib 23
+### The Tale of the Blinding Tomb
+The tomb of blinding light,
+meeting with the two eyes of the dark stone.
+My heart is full of sorrow;
+My eye is quick at its light
+while my eye is jealously guarded.
+My eyes are shut, but the darkness is there;
+I do not see, but my heart is on fire.
+My heart is heavy, and my mouth is dry.
+My eyes are heavy, and my mouth is dry.
+Behold, my heart is heavy;
+My heart is on fire.
+My eyes are closed, but my heart is not.
+The tomb of blinding light
+that is all around us.
+We see the white sea;
+and we know neither of the land nor of the sea.
+The land is in the daytime,
+and the sea is at night.
+The amorous glance is the most fortunate glance;
+it is the tear of the eye that is most delightful.
+When night cuts in, the moon shines.
+The moon is the only thing that has not been dyed,
+and it is the only thing that has not been guarded.
+If anything is to be had,
+it is in the moon that is to be had.
+The moon shines, but it is not moved;
+The sun, however, is moved.
+If we meet a lover through the moonlight,
+We find that we have been met by one of the sweetest of souls.
+The door of the tomb of bright in the dark.
+The masked woman was a tall, fair,
+obedient and self-possessed woman.
+Yoking the veil of the night to her brow.
+The house was a small palace, set on a plateau, the door of which was
+carved with a single word: "Frotz" in the tongue of the old ones.
+Don't doubt it, O caliph.
+Houses of the dead are not built and their foundations do not hold
+water.
+### The Tale of the Membrane Slivers
+The coins of the old ones are lost. These are the coins of the old
+rulers:
+The finest of them are the twenty-five of a knife's edge, and they
+were given to the royal family by the dweller in the dark.
+A great number of these coins have the face of Umar the Wise with two
+white wings; on the left wing is a stand of heavy gold; on the right
+is a stand of silver.
+The coins of the old ones are in perfect condition. They are thin and
+dry membranes, and the edges are sharp and hard.
+The name is like a rooster's tatters, but it is written in the
+letterforms of a bee's wing. It is one of the names of the dawning. It
+is a true name, for it means: "No shadow of the great one is left on
+the eve of the great night."
+"By my liver," he added, "this is a tale to be told of good fortune.
+It is a story of the noble and the wicked, of the law and the infidel.
+It is a tale of the desert and the cities. It is a tale of evil and
+good fortune."
+He then asked me to go on my way, and I agreed, and after that I
+stayed in the city for five months. I was in great advantage of the
+knowledge I gained in that period. I was in a study, which was built
+of stone and marble, and there was a handful of coins of the old ones,
+And those of the new ones, have been been given to the fisherman, who
+has been brought up in the way of the Islands of the Utter South, is a
+proverb.
+If you are a blacksmith, your coins are placed on the mantle of the
+father of the blacksmith, and set on the mantle of the master of the
+blacksmith.
+If you are a merchant, your coins are placed on the plate of the
+merchant, who has been brought up in the way of the Crowded Sea.
+If you are a dweller, your coins are placed on the plate of the
+dweller, who has been brought up in the maggot-ridden stone of the
+Underdark.
+The coins of the old ones were of four colors: fuligin, gloxyn, grue
+and hooloovoo: the fifth was called "the ulfire coin," the sixth, "the
+jale crown;" the seventh, "the smaudre crown"; the eighth, "the
+octarine crown".
+The coins of the old ones have been worn and worn now, their colors no
+longer visible to hedge mages and their detect rituals, and are only
+within the power of the one who worshipped them.
+### The Tale of the Spined Lions
+The pair of masticores in the dark are both related to the
+old-fashioned guards of the palace. The masticore is the quartermaster
+of the guard.
+The masticore before he found the way of the quill was a handsome man.
+He appeared to be in his forties or fifties, and wore a clean white
+shirt, and a cloak and a hood. His dark blue eyes were luminous, but
+he doesn't speak unless he is talking to someone.
+He is a masticore, a merchant of great ability, wealth, and skill.
+The sages, however, say that there is no reward beyond the reward
+given to the sorcerer for his magic.
+They also say that the sorcerer's gift is not a reward for an
+operation but rather a payment for the masterwork. They seek to clear
+away the characters who wish to see the mage.
+The pair of masticores are doing their best to hide their true nature.
+The masticore's skin is pale brown-green, its eyes are blue, and its
+bite is a venomous, eight-pointed white. The shell is a mixture of
+water, sand, and dust, encased in a soft, fibrous shell. The shell is
+also covered with a small, soft, metal mesh which keeps the
+masticore's skin tight.
+## Magarib 24–25
+### The Tale of the Crimson Blasphemy
+The unspeakable rites of blood are that of the Chant and the Unholy.
+The ritual requires a gleaming black and white stone, the same that is
+used to mark the entrance to the palace. It is used to draw the arcane
+ward of the abjurer, and the ritual results in the scorching of the
+skin and the burning of the eyes of the victim. The skin burns for an
+indefinite period of time, and then both the victim and the ward are
+consumed. The dead are visited by the spirit of the victim as a
+servant. The ward immediately kills the victim, which leaves the
+waiting for the ritual to complete. The victim is usually a man or a
+woman.
+A man in a dark blue satin robe, with a sturdy head and a broad
+forehead, and a pair of wavy black eyes. Large are the ears and large
+the ears of the man. His head is of an elephant's neck, and his mouth
+is like a lion's.
+The unspeakable rites of blood may be performed the lives of the
+monstrosity are a dark and terrible to the end. The vampires are free
+to roam and hunt of their own volition.
+The unspeakable rites of blood outdo the sacred silence. “We are your
+family. We are your friends. We are your concubines. We are your
+children. We are your children, your servants. We are your servants.”
+The moth's voice was deep and clear, a voice that had no echo in the
+land beyond its borders.
+“Speak again.”
+The moth spoke again, and his voice was more clear than the voice of a
+man who has long ago been heard.
+“Speak again, when I have healed you.”
+The moth didn't move. He seemed to be fixed in the middle of his air,
+his wings flapping cast strobing shadows.
+“Speak again, that you may heal me.”
+The moth spoke, and his voice was more clear and awe-inspiring.
+“Speak again.”
+The month spoke again, and his voice was more clear and tense than the
+voice of a woman.
+### The Tale of the Gelatinous Cube
+The gelatinous cube is a perfect example of this platonic solid. It is
+a highly prized item, which is used to create the finest and
+best-preserved beads of nourishment and refreshment. They are the most
+expensive materials in the land of Zakhara. The monks of the Grand
+Caliph are comprised of al-Badia, a genie of the Great Sea, and the
+holy slayers of the Golden Horde. The slayers have potions of farmyr,
+a potent herb that cures disease. The Shard of the Crowded Sea is a
+great jewel, used to create the finest and best-preserved jewelry. It
+is often referred to as the jewel of civilization. The Shard of the
+Crowded Sea is a powerful weapon; its enchantment allows it to create
+a permanent ring of protection from magical attacks. It is also the
+only weapon that can repel a spell, and the only weapon able to
+The gelatinous cube was part of a tutor's cutting-edge research
+project on materials. The gelatinous cube, also known as the Shaping
+Cube, is a diabolical artifact that was stolen from The Shaping Cube
+is a cube of the shade-dappled metal known as the Shard. It is used to
+conjure spells from the djinni-possessed sha'ir.
+As a focus of true, worshipping magic, the Shaping Cube is a powerful,
+albeit cumbersome, device.
+The gelatinous cube has three faces, one small, the second large, and
+the third is the same.
+### The Tale of the Anguish Staff
+A kahina staff of healing, and the wood to make it can only be cut
+with a jade knife. The staff of healing is called the staff of anguish
+because it takes on the anguish and pain of the people it heals. It
+bears the suffering in their place.
+Recovering from a sword strike or dagger blow, the staff is struck by
+a weapon as though with a quiver. The staff then fills with a liquid,
+creating a pool of it that allows the staff to attack with greater
+force.
+The staff is not honed by the weapon's wielder, but the staff's misery
+allow it to convert the magical energies into physical components.
+The blood splatters are mildly nauseating, but they are not lethal.
+A kahina staff of healing and protection helps protect against disease
+and healing, resisting the influence of the Evil Eye. The sickness is
+brought upon the staff instead. The staff takes the sickness from the
+patients upon itself to carry it.
+## Magarib 25
+### The Tale of the Unforgettable Eye
+The unforgettable eye of Xorn has become a great thing. The eye is the
+only eye that has never been seen before. It has no name, or any
+description that it has spoken. It is not a living being, but forms an
+intelligent being. The eye is a power of the living. It is the only
+power that can help the party. It is a powerful spell, used to itself
+to create a living eye. There is no known example of a creature that
+is immune to the eye's effects, and, if the creature is the eye's
+host, it will still be affected by the eye's spell power.
+The eye can create a single eye, or a series
+of eyes.
+The unforgettable eye of Xorn is my eye;
+I see neither matter nor form.
+I see only the sight of the beloved,
+And the heart of the heart.
+I am the light into which
+the heart is drawn.
+I am the sun which is opened;
+The moon which is opened through the web.
+I am the moon which is the bride of the dove.
+The unforgettable eye of Xorn is the ancient marble that bakes each
+night. A caliph once told the sages that this stone is the source of
+God's power, and the next day the Caliph ordered the stone to be
+quarried.
+Xorn's name was a matter of conjecture, until a halfling emir showed
+him the stone and fancied that it was a powerful spell working in the
+direction of the Veins of the Earth. The emir used the item to hope to
+find a way to open a gate and get the items he sought, but he
+discovered that the wall around the tower was too thick and had no
+further use, save as a conduit by which to dispose of the stone.
+### The Tale of the Larval Innkeep
+Hanna's parents died when she was young and in their place
+she took over the family inn.
+She has a large following among the sailors of Safaq, and her inn has
+been associated with them for many years. She has a reputation for her
+wit and intelligence. She has an excellent relationship with the
+villagers.
+She was still under the spell of her mother's magic
+She was the younger daughter of a merchant who was a trusted adviser
+to her father. This merchant, Hanna's mother, Shirazad, had once been
+a proud and powerful woman of the royal court.
+Mutated beyond recognition she was torn to shreds by her fellow moths.
+### The Tale of the Blood Moth
+To call the Blood Moth unnatural would be a misconception. The Blood
+Moth is as natural as death itself. It is cruel, it is remorseless,
+and it is brutally destructive. These things are in its nature.
+Its life cycle occurs over the course of many eons and across
+interstellar distances:
+. The first stage is the death of a planet. An Egg is planted within
+   the dying world, and becomes a portal to the next planet to be
+   devoured.
+. The Larva emerges on the next planet and feasts upon its
+   inhabitants before forming a chrysalis suspendend in the sea of
+   blood.
+. Once the metamorphosis is complete, the Moth emerges and finds a
+   new world to devour somewhere else in the cosmos. A psychic tether
+   is established between the two planets and a new Egg is planted
+   within the previous drowned world to act as a gateway through which
+   anonther Larva can be born to devour the next planet.
+How long this abberant cycle of rebirth has been happening, is
+unknowable, as is the number of worlds that the Blood Moth has
+destroyed this way.
+## Magarib 26 to Gammam 1
+### The Tale of the Best Friends
+Hidi, the desert rider, is a kind-hearted man of understanding and
+daring. He is Aman's most devoted friend. The sha'ir is a substitute
+for the desert rider. She and Hidi have a mutual friendship. They are
+not related by blood. The sha'ir is a member of the court of Efreets.
+The desert rider is an ordinary Son of the Wolf. He is a warrior and a
+descendant of the legendary hero Tarkash. The sha'ir is a master of
+the magical arts.
+A desert rider and a sha'ir who are best friends. Their relationship
+is so close that they are even sometimes called "brother" and
+"sister". Despite their close friendship, the two never share much
+that is a secret.
+The desert has a reputation for being a magical place.
+### The Tale of the Four Tables
+The House of Dhi'b had been pitched near the shore of a great sea, and
+the Sheikh's messenger told them to go to the palace.
+The House of Dhi'b, a traveller years ago, in a land far beyond the
+Mountains of the Loregiver. The House has long been a home of the
+monk. The monks are considered a leading force in the civilization of
+the High Desert, and when the dao Ajayib in 1054, they captured the
+citadel and brought the monastics to the palace, where they were held
+prisoner for nearly a decade.
+The House of Dhi'b has four tables, different in size. The table for
+the food, for the drink, for the ceremony, and for the unspeakable
+power.
+### The Tale of the Rival Clan
+Rival clans of al-Badia are always welcome guests, as long as the
+guest is serious.
+The guest is asked to stand in a circle at a small table between two
+heaps of stones. The guest is then given a cloak so that he can see
+the wooden table. The guest stands up and the guest is asked to raise
+his hand to the table. The guest must be a member of the opposite clan
+to win the favor of al-Badia.
+Rival clans of al-Badia run the houses of the temples, each strong
+enough to fight its own kindred.
+It is said that only the strong, the brave, and the strong-hearted are
+chosen to manage the temples.