Land of Four Shadows

Here are the Columns on the North and South side of Room 1.   Column 1 GREETINGS. SEE THE FRUITS OF RESEARCH. DO NOT GO TO HIGHER LEVELS WITH NO SAGES.   Column 2 WE SEEK BETTER SENSE OF HERE. SIGHT TOUCH SOUND TO KNOW MORE PLACE.   Column 3 WE SEEK SENSE BEYOND OUR POINT OF PLACE. CAN WE SENSE FAR AWAY HERE?   Column 4 WE SEEK FAR STEPS FROM HERE TO THERE. CAN WE WARD FROM FAR STEPS? CAN WE SENSE MORE AT ONCE?   Column 5 WE SEEK TO BE MORE PLACES AT ONCE. WE CAN TIE PLACE TO PLACE NO MATTER DISTANCE. CAN WE USE THIS TO CATCH NOUNS?   Column 6 CHANGE SIZE WITH GATES. WE SEEK BEYOND SKY WITH CHANGE SIZE OF LIGHT. SEE THE MOON.   Unless otherwise stated, there is always SOME Float-vines in each room.   Room 2   This is a large room, 15 feet high, with thorny Float-Vines covering all exits except the one to Room 1.  The vines cling to all the walls and extend from the ceiling.  Along the west wall are benches and planters with the vine...

    I would be pretty remiss if I didn’t update on the first day of the year.  Kind of bad luck.   This whole weekend, I’ve been keeping the Land of Four Shadows in the back of my mind.  Thinking about the Highmen, their culture, their history, their architecture, how they raise their children and such.  I was inspired by Babylonian structures, but I don’t know anything about their history outside of the shape of their buildings.  So, in my head, I’ve slowly imagined how children are taught.   They wouldn’t have called themselves “Highmen.”  They would call their race something like “Clayborn” or such.  Names and words tend to shorten as civilization goes on, soooo…  Clayborn.  Claybon.  Clayb.  Claib.  Klaib.  There we go.  The “Klaib.”   The Klaib believe they were created, not by their god, but the first Klaib called Katr.  Katr was a lonely Highman and the only one of this kind.  He m...