You have no idea of how you arrived here, but one thing is for certain you are in a different place. As you look up towards the night sky, the alien landscape becomes more evident. Above you are six moons and foreign star formations. With a deep sigh and trepidition, you push onward uncertain of what you will find. You continue to walk for what seems an eternity in the dark forests. A fleeting light is seen up ahead through the swaying branches. Soon your feet thread upon a paved road of masonry. Your steps quicken and you enter a couryard with soaring dark gray cyclopean walls that seem to engulf the night sky.
Velvety emerald moss clings to the rim of the walls, draping over them like a caressly tossed shroud. In other places, pockets of moss litter the ancient walls and cobbled stone floor of the courtyard having found a nest among the cracks in the masonry. Delicate Wysteria blooms cling to the walls in some places like delicate spider web tendrils.
A large weathered black marbled fountain occupies the center of the ancient place. Its murmuring waters always chirping with a soft echo that cools the night. A top protruding from its center, displays four buxom cast bronze mermaids who with their outstretched arms to the heavens and open palms hold fishes, who have been perpetually caught in the moment of leaping over sea born waves, that spout waters through their own mouths in graceful cascades.
A few stone benches have been place beneath tall silver colored trees that offer shade with their large feathery fern like fingers and near the central fountain. A round channel outlines the fountain's base. From small grooves at the base, water trickles down into the channel. The water travels from here down through twelve radiating arms that form a spectacular sun star formation. Six of the ten radiating arms end in large round silver stone lined channels representing the Imajian Moons and three of the radiating arms end in gold lined channels in the form of an eight pointed star, representing the three Imajian Solarian Stars. Carefully planted flower beds are located near the Western and Eastern Walls. As your gaze is drawn there, you spot the towering silhouette of towers.
The roar of the Ocean of Souls vibrates through out the courtyard. The Keep has been built on a rocky incline of some 60 feet with the ocean as its backdrop.
The night air is cool and light fragranced from the exotic blooms that grow in this alien world. There is something about this place that stirs the deepest primordial fears and desires. You noticed how the air seems to be charged with something potent.... but what is it?
It is said that in some places there are natural occurring phenomenon such as portals that allow passage into other realms or parts of the universe. Not many are able to find these gateways, but you somehow have.
Welcome to the Stonehaven Keep, Home of
the Ascension Conclave, and the Realm of the Imaji. Stay a while and do not pet the Black Lotus Flowers. Lest you stirr their playfulness.
