[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Dragonstrike]

"The ends of the earth? That might be a loose translation of our oldest name for this swamp: Hangoari Whennua, the Base of the Swine's Tusk. The Carved Tusk is Creshire, Whenua, the land... actually, not just the soil but everything on it. The other 'end of the earth' would then be 'Whennua Huiy Ihiy'... this is hard to explain. It is the tip of the Tusk... but the Tusk's tip is a mountain. But it is also the tip of a spear, and all the force that implies. But it is also a place, a 'meeting place.' That would be the literal translation. I do not know where this might be, somewhere on the west coast of Creshire."

"'The beginning of the land' I do not know at all, unless it be another way to say the first end of the earth. In a way, the Swamp is the cultural origin point of the Mamo universe. Those who journey too far from the swamp never come home. You can only leave. So it has been for ages, but once it was not so."

"Hmmm...and that time it wasn't so?"

Nathan's pulled out his journal again and is writing all of this down (including the stuff on Escartress).  Somehow, it's completely free of the muck that seems to be covering everything as the group travels through this swamp...