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+====== The Nameless Statues of Tindrem ======
+=== Author: ===
+Tectio da Levita
+=== Estimated Publishing Date: ===
+~70 [[:Timeline#Ante Decollator, A:eD & Anno Decollator, A:oD / AD|A:eD]]
+=== Location: ===
+[[:Tindrem]] library entrance chamber, book on a south-side desk.
+[[:Fabernum]] library, 2nd floor on a table.
+=== Player Discovery Credit: ===
+Mortalitas
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+One who spends any amount of time int he marvelous city of [[:Tindrem]] cannot escape the brilliance of figures made of marble. Tragically, some of these figures lack plaques to denote who or what they are meant to commemorate. As one would expect of such inventive and passionate people, the citizens of //Tindrem// have given each a story.
+Some are well-regarded enough to boast multiple!
+---
+==== The Sage ====
+The statue commonly known as The Sage is rumored to be the statue of a great thinker of the [[:Tindrem#Pre-Irruption Magic & Science|Clerus Magica]], an academy that sank into the sea only a few short generations ago.
+While few Tindremenes are alive today to have experienced the academy in its glory, the organization itself and its great thinkers and inventors glitter brightly among the many stars that light the sky of //Tindrem's// past.
+Another rumor surrounding The Sage is that he was a great scholar and philosopher, who brought knowledge to the people of //Tindrem// from far-away lands. Perhaps an ancient //Provinciale//, bringing his most valuable information to the capital?
+Could he have been from the ruined city of [[:Gaul'kor|Gabaria]], now known as [[:Gaul'kor]]?
+Some around Tindrem believe so!
+The tantalizing promise of knowledge from lands far and wide have long captured imaginations of our people, proof of our adoration for knowledge, exploration, and ambition.
+---
+==== The Grieving Woman ====
+Despite lacking a name on her statues, what is known about her would suggest that she was born in [[:Fabernum]]. It is uncertain how her life took her to the fortified island between [[:Myrland]] and [[:Sarducaa]], but most are certain that her story took her there.
+In the most common retelling, an unprecedentedly large group of [[:Nordveld|Nordeveldian]] pirates attacked the island, abandoning crudely made rats and allowing them to be whisked below //Tecton's Fault//. Tragically, her mother and father were slain in their bedchambers, and then the woman and her husband were brought before the pirates' leader.
+Despite her pleas, her husband was beheaded, and his head was given to her after she begged the [[:Kallard]] to give him back to her. It is believed that she sat with his head in a prison cell in the dungeon of the fortress for weeks before the island was retaken by the Empire.
+Another entirely different story claims that she was the sister of a decapitated member of the [[:Tindremic Empire#Tricapita – The Three-Head|Tricapita]], cradling her brother's head in her arms one last time. Was this perhaps the result of a plot for power all along and she merely kissed her brother's forehead to sway those into believing her innocent, or was she truly grieving?
+Some even go so far as to say she was the mistress of a decapitated emperor, which would make her perhaps the most famous, although nameless, mistress in all of [[:Tindremene|Tindremic]] history.
+All versions of the story are explicit about one thing, however: The woman believed that so long as she kept the man's head, she could hear his spirit talking to her.
+Was this madness, or proof that love transcends even death?
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