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From Westaven

The "Holy Isle" is a small island of rocky crags off the southwestern tip of the Trepindian Mainland. In ancient Aenean times it served as the center of all worship, although for the past two (or more) thousand years it has declined, until now it is completely in ruins--and commonly believed to be haunted.

Not much is known of the Holy Isle today, and no one visits there. Details are even unknown to the learned Keepers of Scrolls (a.k.a., "Greybeards"), with one of the largest libraries of Westaven at their command. (see 26 April 986 log.) Gereth did, however, read "vagaries" about the Isle in a book he inherited from James: “It appears that the gods and goddesses at one primeval time or another, gathered around a temple of Aeneus and declared it their seat of earthly power, and defended it against the forces of chaos, from which they spread out the life of the world. It was said this may be the heartbeat of their collective parent--the progenitor of the entire Westaven Pantheon, it seems. It is where the older gods seem to have stabbed him and drank his blood (?), and then used it as their life spring. On the other hand, the Holy Isle appears to be some sort of temple fortress, where they defended their worldy power. And finally, the font mentioned here was also the source of the oceans on the surface of the world.”8 Nov. 985

The adventurers' journeys took the men to the Isle twice, first in the ...