February Entry: Werthers Skull

[Redrobes]

Hey Neon, Thats a fabulous quote. I have never heard that but its so fitting. The painting image does not look like the Astral plane tho so maybe some dark wizard(s) battled a Gith (or many) and stole it transporting via teleport to this place. Perhaps in battle, the wizards just dimensionally flung it anywhere out of the sphere of battle and it was teleported or gated randomly into the ground of another plane and now the erosion is revealing it once again.

So that would mean that the original interior would have been 'carved' out by Githyanki perhaps with a more fortified theme than I was anticipating from that created by a wizard... Its says this in plural so I figure that this would not be the first or last skeletal remains to have been converted so I reckon they would have a good idea how to do it and would optimize the space better than square block shaped interiors. Maybe this explains why the skull is so hard too. Either skulls of deities is hard stuff or that the Gith have made them harder - though I like the first option better.

Edit -- The painting is from the Elric series of books by Michael Moorcock and he has a character in one of the books called Werther which is based on some old text of which there are details here. As you can gather, I haven't read either tho a long ago friend used to rave about the Elric series.

Looking at the Wiki there are bits of Gith etc but also an entry called God-Isles so this idea of the Githyanki using skeletons from fallen deities must be fairly well known (by everyone except me it seems !).