Trading Maps

JP with Winteroak and Omni

Naravas tried and explained that the images they saw of people praying to the sea was related to Muros, using gestures and pointing at different carved images. He would later point out in the ceiling map an area just north of the Great Desert of Skulls, that he referred to as Hel's Maw.

Voah took in the information. This Hel's Maw must be the area that Zargari mentioned that his people did not visit, saying the tribes were did not like outsiders.

Her suspicions of the Muros were confirmed. The priests considered the creature to be sacred and maybe even some manifestation of their god. She assumed that these people believed in the twin gods and maybe they did, but was it possible that they were a hidden faith persecuted and exiled to the desert? Although she didn't remember the names of the twin gods, she was sure Muros wasn't one of them.

For a holy temple, the underground sanctuary seemed more like a library, a stone record of Arcadian history. Voah found herself strangely at ease, where a year ago, in Helias, she may have been instructed to take a group of Mizaran iconoclasts to destroy the temple with hammer, chisel, sword and torch. She would have taken pleasure in ridding it from existence. Not this place.

He proceeded to take the two into a smaller room, filled with ancient tablets, scrolls and papyrus. Inside the room there were a few small benches and tables.

Stopping near one he took a small sheet of paper and some paints and quickly drew the now familiar outstretches of Arcadia and a few geographical points they recognized.

He then smiled at them passing a fresh piece of paper and passing the quill. Pointing at the two of them.

He wanted a drawing of Helias.

Voah wanted to pull out the scrolls and peruse the writing, maps, or other possible inked illustrations.

In spite of herself, she found herself thrilled to respond. She gladly received the quill and shot Gonyaul a smile. Voah was more than a fair illustrator, painter, and calligrapher, but she rarely got the chance to demonstrate the skill anywhere besides correspondence, church record, or her own personal journal.

Following Naravas' example, Voah first took the painting quill to different colored paints delineating the regions of Helias so they were easily recognized as separate places.

The ending result of her depiction was a general rough estimate and skewed according to her views and understanding of the continent with Mizar being the most accurate, especially the coastal geography and inner sea of Cambena, albeit the religious state was larger than it should have been in proportion and relation to the Forsaken Lands and the Empire of Salos.

She then outlined the borders in black and gave each location a name in a plain script so that it was legible. She then pointed to each one and gave their names aloud.

"Salos, Garah, Torja, Kru'll, Mizar and... the Forsaken Lands."