travelling stone

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_voyager.co.nz>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 16:24:00 +1200 (NZST)


Oliver Bernuetz:

>Does anyone know anything about the "Battle of Travelling Stone"? It's
>mentioned in GM and I know that Travelling Stone is to the south of
>the Rockwoods but I don't have a date for it. Here's the reference:

>Obviously it occured during the Gbaji Wars but when?

Between 440 and 450 ST. It would depend on when the Battle of Hangalium (in which Saird was conquered by Arkat) took place as one has to reach Saird through Dragon Pass. This could be the same event as the Battle of Darnstiggi in the _Troll_Gods_ Arkat writeup, but a date is not given for that either. The FS implies that Saird fell before 430 ST (Anirestyu abdicates in 431 ST after the fall of Saird), but the abdication date of 431 should actually be 451 according to Greg.

>According to
>the GM map there's information on Travelling Stone in the Dragon
>Pass game but I don't have access to the game.

It's at the very edge of the Stinking Forest and lies within Tarsh. It's north of Bagnot and west of the Ivory Plinth and is reputed to be the place where Larnste rested his travelling bag when he rested while making the Rockwood Mountains. "Thereafter there grew something miraculous, a living stone with its own spirit. The spirit is sometimes called the son of Larnste, or simply the Spirit of Movement [...]. Ever since that time it has been possible to contact this extraordinary spirit at its magical rock" [Dragon Pass Rulebook p24].

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