#JulyRogueChallenge Eidolon worthy real places

#JulyRogueChallenge  Eidolon worthy real places

"You walked for more than 300 miles with it on your pack, and now that you see the place, you wonder if it was worth the effort. It is too late now to question the wisdom of your acts, you just get the pebble in your hand and throw it. The second it touches the ground you are unable to distinguish it from the million others piled around the cross. If this is an empty gesture, at least you are not alone at making it."

The "cruz de ferro" is place in the Santiago's way, a pilgrimage on the north of Spain. There is a tradition to carry a stone from your home place and throw it to the mound while facing the other way, as a symbol to have gone through the mountain pass.

#JulyRogueChallenge Eidolon-worthy Real Places

#JulyRogueChallenge  Eidolon-worthy Real Places

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
Inspired to historical facts

#JulyRogueChallenge Eidolon-worthy Real Places

#JulyRogueChallenge    Eidolon-worthy Real Places

Cool and fashionable h/t to Renato Ramonda 

You see that rock up there, young rogue? That enormous boulder in the middle of the valley? It looks natural to you? It looks like a hill or a mountain? It has been put there, I tell you! 

Look, look at the mountains. Not like that, in the right way! See? Is that a mountain to you? Look, that's a nose, a mouth. It has a belly, and feets, I tell you!

That's not a mountain, child, I tell you. That's the giant body of the King Of Thousand Demons. Once in an age, if you are unlucky, it will wake up that old body and walk the leand once again.

And that rock? That's Its Throne, I tell you! It will sit on Its Throne, holding court of demons and evils. 

Who knows what evil wonders will it leave behind, in those occasions? What dark magic? What cursed treasure? It's a dark place. People die on it, it thirsts for blood, I tell you!
You should be mad to go and try to climb such an evil place.

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Rock of Bismantova, Reggio Emilia
Inspired by a local legend

#JulyRogueChallenge Eidolon-worthy Real Places

#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."

#JulyRogueChallenge Eidolon-worthy Real Places

#JulyRogueChallenge Eidolon-worthy Real Places

The legends are contradictory: some say that she was a goddess that accepted to become stone to save the people that worshiped her.

Some instead tell of an ancient war in heaven and how the dreaded goddess of blood was struck with magic by the first of heroine of mankind, she who stole fire from the stars, but even her incantations could only freeze her in the state we see her now.

Nobody knows for sure. 
What you can be sure of, is that you saw the stone skin crack.
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Take an inspiration for this month's challenge.

Take an inspiration for this month's challenge. 

Originally shared by Amazing Places to See

Angel Falls is a waterfall in Venezuela. It is the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall, with a height of 979 m and a plunge of 807 m.

July Eidolon & Simulacrum Challenge

July Eidolon & Simulacrum Challenge

Inspired by Renato Ramonda's suggestion, this month's challenge is to pick a real world place and use it as an eidolon for a rogue or a tale.