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The group descend into the valley of Maahet
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5/8/42 Aper Tertius (evening)
The group set watch after a brief discussion.
6/8/42 Aper Tertius
The group investigate the valley and see a number of settlements that they want to investigate.
They find evidence of the Cult of Sabba with two corpses and believe they are being watched from a distance. They examine the first chasm in the ground and discover that the cult may have entered into here.
In the first settlement they find a ruined temple with carvings of Maahet creating food and water. There are scrawlings of 'The End' but these have been defaced. The Temple was warded by a recent 'Alarm' spell, whether for them or for the cult of Sabba is unknown.
The second settlement had a larger temple with carvings of Maahet judging those who harmed the community, and educating (specifically about herblore and medicine). The temple square has smaller temples to the three other desert gods with scawlings about Kauket.
Excerpts -
Kauket has sent him. His wings beat beneath the earth. We cannot stop him. As he breathes, the ground shakes.
Was this you? Did you breath life into him? Was this you, Kauket?
He wakes, he shudders in the deep
He eye pierces from the darkness. Her hand's shadow passes over the earth and the dagger it wields is one forged of our own ore. A dagger has no conscience, no heart but a man should. Even Sabba has no love of such creatures. He is as cold as the cloudless night. He pierced our camouflage. He was called a priest, a magi, but he has no loyalty. His power seeps up, the son of the leviathan is torn from wrest. The beast draws breath, the wings beat, our homes shake, our people die and River Mother's gift is swallowed by the ground.
Her evil eye upon us, the dark tyrant has sent he dagger.
.....and which is worshipped by those who followed the Dagger of Kauket, those who drank it's power. The power of ending.
"Was this you? Was it you who damned us? Did you breathe life back into him or was this Kauket?"
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They find a school and evidence that pilgrims took a route from the 'Spear' monument to the Path of the Spine so they could reach Maahet's true temple.