#JulyRogueChallenge Eidolon-worthy Real Places
The Sea Prophet
"Listen to me, young man, I don't care if you are a perl diver of the western isles or the first mate of a huntship. And yes, I heard the story too, but to go and mess with the Sea Prophet is folly."
"Even assuming you can find a way to get a merfolk to owe you a debt, and that they are faithful and really loan you one of those necklaces that let you breathe water... assuming those even exist, and that those treacherous slippery bastards don't just drown you... why do you think the Prophet is made of Stone now?"
"Ah, you didn't think this through this far, I knew. Listen to me then: forget the Prophet, forget the Stone of the Eight Seas. It's not worth risking your life and those of your companions. Stay away and live."
Real world place: the Christ of the Abyss
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_of_the_Abyss
in the sea of my native region.
I’m learning today that you can’t possibly compete with the Italians when it comes to phantasmagoric geography.
ReplyDeleteHeh, nah, the world is rife with wondrous places, I'm just cherry picking the ones in Italy that are not churches ;)
ReplyDelete... and every year a priest and several faithful will don scuba gears to perform a submarine mass.
ReplyDeleteOther times people will get married in front of it.
Or is this the submarine Christ that once a year is made resurface to be cleaned and then resubmerged with great cerimonies?
I know of at least three different submarines Christs along the peninsula and maybe I'm mixing traditions.
The first one, I think: the wikipedia page says it was brought to the surface once, to clean it and repair a hand that had been hit by an anchor.
ReplyDeleteThe pics with all the algae on it are pretty cool too.
This is the one that is always mentioned in one of those "look at these incredible abandoned places" listicles, to which I generally reply with "that statue is not abandoned at all, people!"