====== No Title | Letter to Vandra ======
=== Author: ===
Deglan
=== Estimated Publishing Date: ===
Unknown [[:Timeline#Ante Confluvium, AC & Novo Tindrem, NT|NT]], [[:Timeline#Ante Decollator, A:eD & Anno Decollator, A:oD / AD|A:eD]], or [[:Timeline#Ante Decollator, A:eD & Anno Decollator, A:oD / AD|AD]]
=== Location: ===
[[:Hyllspeia|Hyllspêia]] docks or a point of interest in the region, exact location unknown.
=== Player Discovery Credit: ===
Provide a screenshot of the in-game text with location details in the ''#lore-notes'' channel on [[https://discord.gg/PMt3vzSXTN|The Compendium Discord]] or to Mortalitas (''marot'' on Discord) in order to have your name listed here.

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//[[Letter to Deglan|Vandra]]//,

Think of [[:Hyllspeia#Old Hyllspêia|Old Hyllspêia]] for me. Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and truly imagine the sight of it.

You likely imagined [[:Rimfrost]] or [[:Branth]], but smaller. They exist as the grandest spectacle of [[:Blainn]] architecture, after all. And maybe you are right, perhaps that is what it looked like, but none of us can truly picture it because there's no present evidence it ever existed.

All records say it did, both the [[:Tindremic Empire]] and the scholars of //Rimfrost// say that there was once a //Blainn// settlement named //Hyllspêia//, and they mention it quite casually.

If all can agree it was not a myth, where then did it go?

That impregnable gate sitting high above [[:Hyllspeia|Hyllspêia]] is not //Blainn// in make, all can recognize it is [[:Huergar|Huérgar]]. It mocks us with its cold, solid presence.

Have you heard the story of the [[:Third Battle of Nereb Madgulu|Battle of Nereb Madgulu]]? How the fissure-skinned certainly sat by in their heartless [[:Nereb Madgulu|tower of stone and metal]] while we mere humans were allowed to be slaughtered and sullied by the score?

They are cowards, //Vandra//. The clearest signs of their treacherous nature began at //Rimfrost// and continue to the present.

What do you think they did to the //Blainn//, //Vandra//? Why is there nothing left? Why does the //Huérgar// gate stand strong while the //Blainn// who once lived here have been wiped from the face of [[:Nave]]?

I intend to find out.

//Deglan//

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