When a tyrant wants to build the biggest and mightest stronghold in the country he will crush his subjects with corvees and slave job.
This if you are one of the lucky ones.
If not the tyrant will be so cruel and callous to crush them literally, to use their houses and streets as the foundation of his stronghold, transforming a normal village in a dark, subterranean labyrinth, never to be seen or visited again.
Some says that when he did the act his guards killed everyone who tried to escape, he wanted the very souls of the villagers to defend his rock. They were trapped in their underground houses, they died there without seeing the sun again for the pride and ambition of their liege.
The sound you hear is the moaning of their vengeful souls roaming the halls.
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Rocca Paolina, Perugia
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This rocks! I guess you rolled Gloomy :)
ReplyDeleteI totally recognized Perugia from the thumbnails: I passed through there one time only, but it's so odd...
Nice story, too: I love this fortress foundation haunted by the spectral remains of the old inhabitants.
The best part is that's all true, except for the killings.
ReplyDeleteThere is another place in Umbria I want to post...
ReplyDeleteTodi?
ReplyDeleteOrvieto. St. Patrick's Well ^^
ReplyDeleteAh, you're 100% right.
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