Andrew Michael Miller's Thought Backlog
Writer and working Agile professional. Author of Pancho's Fall.
The following series of letters occurs between two rival clerics, Recamundus de Gelgadongo and Cesario de Torium. While there can be no question that Torium is a much larger cultural hub - it is the Torian Capital, after all - not enough can be said about the Academy in Gelgadongo, where many lords from the peninsula and trade barons from the the Saibhrean Isles send their children to receive an education.
Vestilla, the fortified castle city in the mountains on Northern Caelon, stands at a higher elevation than any other castle in the whole of the peninsula. Huge, ancient walls built directly into the mountainside offer protection against any would-be invaders. Inside the outer walls lie separate districts where all citizens carry out their lives under the constant oversight of the Vestillan Guard. A king sits atop the throne, asserting his influence on a wide span of countryside that includes smaller keeps and villages, as well as a vast forest across the realm, untouched by the Great Fire.
The song recorded in this article remains of unknown origin, sparking much scholarly debate as to the exact time period it was written. A popular assumption that has been accepted as fact by the laymen of our time is that the song was, indeed, written by a man whose wife was outside of the walls of the Holy City when the Fall began. While indeed that is a romantic notion, recent research has noted that the phrasing and the styling of the song hint at a much later original penning. No known texts reference the song prior to year 314 of the current age, when it is recorded that King Alberto IV of Penderona had the song played every night… Continue reading “Walls” – Song from the World of El Tor
