Folklore: The Angelus Bridge

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Folklore: The Angelus Bridge

Postby Kilaana » Mon Nov 16, 2015 9:37 pm

The Angelus Bridge refers to the artificial bridge on the northern road away from Outentown, designed by an architect named Athos 'Pinquick' Ilabrar; an Impilturan who spent much time in the great cities of the west, such as Cormyr and the Dalelands. His works are heavily influenced by the cultures, sights and sounds he experienced there, and to most Impilturan folk he remained a grandmaster of his craft, yet a household name spoken with both admiration and trepidation due to his expansive ways of thought and his embracing of traditions that were not his own.

The bridge is an engineering marvel, consisting of a rumoured 100 columns and beams, with winged angels on either sides, trumpeting the glory of the Impilturan Empire at the hands of Imphras the Great during 1097 DR, which marked the end of the Kingless Years.

The Bridge is significant as it is one of the few major entrypoints to the North, marking the start of the Herald's Road; past the Ilmatarian Towers of Lamentation and further still to the fortress-city of Ilmwatch to the northeast. This road passes through the Barrowlands, a large area devastated during the Fiend Wars. Over the years, many adventuring bands who entered the earthen mounds of the Barrowlands failed to return. The adventurer Yargildas, prior to his untimely demise in the Year of the Worm (1356 DR), reported no obvious signs of the presence of fiends or undead but noted the existence of what he described as "rune circles" which he postulated operated as a sort of portal system and provided access to hitherto undetected chambers, isolated from the others. For this reason, travellers are a rare sight beyond the Angelus Bridge - and those who must pass through are either those seeking pilgrimage, or passage to Ilmwatch, or those foolhardy enough to explore the waterless wastes.

The Bridge is manned at all times by a handful of stationed Impilturan Wararms. Construction is also underway to repair the centuries-old Bridge as part of a conservation project. Increasing raids by humanoid races inhabiting the surrounding areas are, however, proving this effort more of a challenge than expected.

Past the bridge, in the easterly shadows is a small clearing that has not escaped the rich imagination of the locals. An old folktale says that a sworn knight of Tyr, having his heart swayed by the fairest of maidens, decided to break his oath with his god when his fair love was not offered the mercy she pleaded for. It is said that they had leapt off the Angelus Bridge together to escape their fate, but die together they did not, for the winds that day were so strong that they each fell apart from another when the ground rose to claim them. The place suffers from an eternal fog that doesn't go away even in the hottest of summers.
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