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On the Lost Tomb of the Spriggan Queen<br>
by Hrondus Pandarus<br>
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There is little to support this study with, and indeed, this scholar is forced to rely as much on long-passed-down mythologies as accepted fact. However, that there was a King Gilverain early in Ayleid histories, and that his wife was a Spriggan creature, is at least evidenced by my research. Certainly, there is nothing to contest it in the general knowledge base that we have accrued regarding these ancient peoples. <br>
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I have discovered carvings at the sites of several notable ruins that suggest a kinship between the Ayleid people and the Spriggan race, who would have acted as spokeswomen for the inhabitants of the - at that time significantly more vast - forests of Tamriel. Amongst these depictions I have found several times repeated a blue Spriggan - always unique in its context - and a crowned Ayleid man in close proximity. My findings are described at length in papers I have written on the subject, which can be sought in Scholar's libraries. In this report, however, I will list only my personal conclusions.<br>
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Allowing myself room for speculation, I believe that the early Ayleid King, Gilverain, took a Spriggan as his queen, and though they reigned together for a long span by present standards, he was yet still surprised and grieved by her uncustomary early death (her's being a race that, though not immortal, is nonetheless very long-lived). Having much of his own life-span left to mourn her, he dedicated many years to building a tomb in which to house her body. When this tomb was at last built, and the funeral rites attended to, he and his court were amazed to see that, though the structure had been built in the Ayleid style, the part of it inhabited by the Queen was quickly taken over by nature, becoming, not a stone hall as he'd first intended, but an encaverned forest.<br>
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The exact site of this tomb is recorded nowhere, but it is my belief that its location can be placed somewhere in the far east of the Empire. I venture to guess Lake Canulus as a probable site, but the likelihood of my organizing a party to investigate the whereabouts, given what proof I have at present, is woefully low.<br>
I can, again, only guess what the contents of the tomb might be - perhaps the usual Ayleid funeral trappings, but in this unusual case I conjecture not. The mythologies suggest that the Spriggan Queen crafted her husband a pair of gauntlets from her own bark-like flesh, which, when worn, would stay the creatures of her domain from doing him harm. Of course, the real existence of such an artifact cannot be relied on. More generally, the body parts of a powerful Spriggan are believed to bestow great abilities, and even in this present day, the warriors of rustic or barbarian peoples will carry on their person flowers taken from the body of a slain Spriggan, believing their competency in battle to be increased. Of course, we cannot expect the body to have been preserved, but where the great and mysterious magics of the Ayleids are concerned, I do not pretend to draw boundaries on what is possible.
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