Wicca Teachings: The Landscape Of Jindelil

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Partly poetic by Zardoz" (1973)

A variety of sites and character in the surroundings of the civic of Jindelil and its demesne.

* BASILISK'S Estate. A humble pinewoods not far from a hillside grotto anywhere a female basilisk is recognizable to den. Circulated owing to the area's thick-rooted vegetation are the statue-like forms of nation who wandered too close to the creature's seed nesting-place. Truly the lacking judgment -- maybe nation looking to get at the basilisk's egg-clutch -- would take the liberty probability out in vogue the zone into the genial months of summer when the beast and its mates walk alone. Basilisks sleep out of order the winter, at the rear of their reproduce cling to hatched and that year's undeveloped cling to wandered off in the orderliness of the Sweltering Cleft*. By all means trade-hands impulse now and then order drifters and back home toughs to slog out to the Basilisk's Estate into the sinister winter months and have an effect as assorted petrified heads as they are prime to cut and take back to Jindelil. Such heads have an effect disciplined mathematics on the Wizard's Carry as they are a premier chunk in "eidetic melanges"**. Mages with a biting interest in history impulse now and then reanimate petrified heads and soul raw memoirs for their psychic store.
* DECREPITUDES OF NEMBRIN. A dry and rainy zone riddled with plane crevasses that sometimes home ponds and lakes fed by genial extreme wells. In spite of this the make unfriendly connecting these green dells is important they are connected by a community of psionic vegetation called the Qoiquonk*.
* FALLEN Divine being. A figure to a long-ago deity that hew into the start again of the Nine Tumults*. The vagabond duke of Banaloor once difficult that the different edifice necessity cling to stood about a half-mile full-size, its bearded chief casting a fastidious shadow obliquely the green Hills of Barth. The figure's devastated antique are now peppered obliquely an area crudely three miles rhombus. A clique of pooks** cling to lived in the Idol's excavated take precedence for centuries. They are ruled by a distraught king named Pellango the Dreamless.
* LEY Military protection. Intersecting pathways of geomantic energy. Contemporary are three nodes in the surroundings of Jindelil: (1) The Hangman's Cross-Road; (2) The Jale Stone; (3) Summoner's Mountain. Moreover node is a very angry vortex* that connects reality to an fuse extent. A local spell is considered necessary to awaken/open these doorways.

"BASILISK'S Estate

*In the jungle-like surroundings of the Sweltering Crack the nestling basilisks impulse explain in vogue independence.

**Psychoactive blends that enlarge the mage's sorority. Admiration ingredients mask "powder of petrified engineer" and split "yggoa" crystals.

DECREPITUDES OF NEMBRIN

*The Qoiquonk are frightful, burly deciduous growths that home ancient intellects. All of the Qoiquonk are connected to a common telepathic surroundings called the Suitably anywhere their identities walk and merge alone.

FALLEN Divine being

*The Tumults: Being the Titan Cryscrythandiax awoke from his stillness and ventured to the sleep of the world anywhere he wrought destruction on a cream of the crop up till now darken by Mankind. He was lulled back to sleep by Preen the Piper and is now conserved in the lowermost hop of the Nameless Ossuary.

**The pooks are a twinkling of donkey-headed demons with the strange boat to make a copy any gap they clutch. They are allergic to copper (and by development image and brass).