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Deep Water: Lead by good King Jiscal and his wife and Queen, Zeranda. For some time Jiscal feared for his life and his kingdom as he recieved strange visits froma 'dark' person. Now however, Deep Water seems to have crawled out of it's rut, trade is up and food is now bountiful. Here is a pplace where one can find many pups and innns, or even a place in the courts, if he/she is willing to go into the castle.

Wizan Watch Tower: now only a pile of rubble that lies to the north-east of Deep Water. Once it was a place where powerful wizards kept a watch on Labyrinth for the now deseaced king Dimitri. Not long before this monarchs fall the twoer came down, and now it is only a place of ghosts. Some say that powerful magics lay still within it's rubble. Others say it was stripped by the drow ages ago.

Pura Peninsula: A land of many tribal communities lead by a Council from representitives from these tribes. Mostly a half-blood population (elf and other) these people are quite but strong, loyal and true. It is not easy to fool a Purian, even though their kind and often open disposition might lead others to think so.

Honoursfeild: Once known as Lostagrace, a rough and tough town of brutes, this city has been refound. With a new king and a city fast growing, this is a place of new beginings, new loyalties. Everything is being built from the ground up and the whole city has to pitch in for Honoursfeild to becaome a glorious city, just as it was long, long ago.

The Catacombs: Once the home of the Oracle, now this place is nothing but spider-infested caverns. If anything lay in here anymore, only the monsters know.

Labyrinth is a place under the soil and out of the sun, as the surface has become inhabitable. The only light here is either magic born or given off fungi and creatures who have evolved to illuminate the under world, some dragons for example posses the power to make light. Most other creatures are blind. The whole terrain, much larger then our map has been able to show, is webbed with channels of water and steep cliffs, making travel by boat the only way to go.

Labyrinth is about one thousand years old, and some of the older creaturs in the underdark can still remember what the surface would is like. Some morn it. some struggle to find a way to restore the surface world. Five hundred years ago, the planets aligned with the moons and created a force that drove away the poisonous gas (this gas eats everything, even magi) and allowed surface things to grow for about a year before the gasses returned.

How did the surface become so inhospitable? Only the odlest of dragons could tell you why.

Az has provided us with a map that extends North-West of the Labyrinth area.

Map

((Its a chart with Names Tarathiel Picked for the locations, not all of them have anything to do with their real names))

Here is a very useful map of Deep Water.

Deep Map

Moonstone glared at his brother, took a deep breath, and tried to calm himself. This was no time to be angry, he had to find a way to get home. But Onyx had set off down the tunnle, the feeble light given off by some strange looking plants clinging to the wall grow fainter and fainter as they continued onward.

"Hey! Onyx, come on what are you doing? Give me the raven item so i can figure out how to get home."

"What you did mom and dad was cruel. I'd be doing the right thing. Don't you care about them." Reluctantly he followed his brother down the tunnle. "And in case you haven't noticed, I don't run." Under his breath he said "What do you think you just did?"

"I mean, look at this place. The moss is giving off light! By all indications we aren't even on the same planet anymore. Probably not even on the same PLANE! You probably cause mom a lot of physical pain, you know."

Onyx was no stragner to Moonstone's heckling. Things like this had happened before, though certainly not to this extent.

"No chances. I am NOT taking a risk this time."

"I'm NOT sobbing." He put a hand to his forehead. "Damn right ma and pa are trying to find us. They wouldn't abandon us, unlike a certian son I know."

Moonstone stopped his brother from turning down a passage that smelled rank and disgusting, pointing him in a .....fresher direction. "Dear god, don't you use you're nose? And who taught you to think like that? When have fame and fortune ever been important?"

He tugged on his brother's shoulder, though it didn't halt the stubborn one. "What you are doing is selfish."

He threw his head back a bit. "Can you be any more disrespectful?"

"We don't get our gifts from out paraents, we make them ourselves. Plus would you really want the voices of a thousand and some souls whispering in your head? Trying to tell you what to do? Or Mother's void, she can hardley controle it herself. I've seen it work, and I would much rather be without a hole then have blackness dripping from every orrifice of my body."

The air was become fresher. Wherever they had landed, they weren't that far in. Moonstone now had some idea why his younger brother was so bitter. Did he really want all that power? God new Moonstone didn't.

"I think it best if you curbed such ambitions, Onyx. Power has not made our parents lives great, it would not make our lives great either."

They stepped out of the long tunnle to find themselves surrounded in tall...things that resembled trees. Except there was no sun, infact it looked as if they were still underground. The tree things were tall, and straight, and their surface was a strange and pale grey. Their canopyed tops stretched out, covered in sickly green leaves. The whole plasce smelled like mist. Said mist floated in and out of the treees, masking anytihng that lay beyond.

A little yellow creature poked it's head out from behind one of the strange tree's branches. He looked down, smelling a familiar scent. But no, he wasn't looking for this person, though he would note her in passing. Silent, fast, he moved from slick tree to slick tree, keeping himself in the strange clinging mist. He traveled most of the forest, not findind or smeling what he sought. Another fruitless search. Shacking his long ears, scratching an itch, then simply blinking out of existance.

A second later he found himself on the edge of a lake, or a river, he didn't rightly no. He began to sniff along it's edge.

"Elizabeth gives them free food and drink because they are such good freinds, and because Father doesn't leave the manor much. And obviously, if we are born without such powers then we never meant to have them." He folded his arms. "The logic is all there."

He peered through the mist, his eyes adjusting to the seemingly perminant gloom. "Yeah, I smell Emmie." That had been the name Moonstone had given her, when he was little and couldn't pronounce her name properly. It had been a casual thing that stuck, though Onyx sometimes made fun of him for it.

He set off, following the scent. "What is she doing here though?"

"Emmie? bah. I was thinking it was uncle elias. but Esmerelda works too."

A smirk at his brother, and heading toward the smell more of the cigar then the person holding it..but hey, better than finding it to be Nailah or thier own parents. Nailah woudl flay him alive and send them both home in a heartbeat.

"And the hell with logic. Elizabeth and Father are good friends becuase Father turned her old husband into a chair, and then cleared out the village of a bunch of violent thugs with nothing more than his claws and mother."

But enough of that arguement, looking around in the mist for Esemerelda.

"And what is it with this mist?! It's annoying and I don't see or smell any water it's coming from."