[Game thread] Skull Ruins Pokerole

[Iron]

Raphael sweeps into the room and reports back an eerie feeling around the Candelabra itself. The art on the walls doesn't seem to bother him. Ramiel finds nothing of interest at all.

To Nathan's investigations, the Keystone looks like it was probably placed here around the time the arches fell, not long after Sarimanok was ousted.

The cave paintings, on the other hand, are faded to the very limits of recognition. Once again they have been swabbed in resin to protect them. You see the shape of the Candelabra repeated over and over. There seems to be a theme where that same shape is depicted against different backgrounds. Eventually, you realize what the pictures are trying to tell you: the Candelabra has existed downwards from this location in the past, somehow elevating itself upward to its current location.

You also see paintings of surprising sophistication: a big metal box covered in flashing lights, a drill, a Klinklang. That stuff is mixed in with older technology: Apricorns, spears and the hunting of Piloswine, manpowered tools like a spinning wheel.

A plaque explains some of this: these paintings and the Candelabra itself are known to be associated with the First Technical Society, of which extremely little is known. Historians don't even know if the paintings were performed by FTS members or by later inhabitants. It's possible they are not an accurate depiction of life at the time. The FTS actually predates the arrival of the Mamo, and faaaar predates the era of Sarimanok/the Kings. We do know their populations were clustered around central Creshire.