Kraken's Fall

Kraken's Fall

History

First Entry

“Gather round children and I’ll tell you a tale. One of the seas and a man at his sail…” Old man Rosallio wove that tale every time he was too much in his cups, when the moons were gone from the sky, and the scar on his leg started to ache too much. “Now see here, lads and ladies,” he would start as he rubbed at the long, white scar on his calf. “The skies were as moonless and motherless as they are tonight. Just the right kind of night to let all the evil in the seas twist and frolic in their dastardly dances.”

Every child of Kraken’s Fall knows the tale. We are told it from the moment we are weened, throughout our lives, and even when we move into Lorminstra’s Embrace for it is our farewell address. It starts as the old man describes, on a night without moons…