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Episode: Shattered Peace

Posted by Story on 11/07/22
It's been nearly two weeks since the Eclipse of Mirrors, long enough that even those that make a point of not paying attention to such trivial things have started to notice that the moon's looking a bit...reddish. A joke has started making the rounds among the Lycene that this clearly means the Mirror Masquerade celebrations should be ongoing (some of the jokers seem to be joking a bit less than the others), and it curiously tends to be told around particularly traditional Oathlanders. There aren't many scholars that devote significant time to studying the movement and patterns of the skies, it being below concern for most Arvani that aren't sailors or pathfinders, but those that do speculate that the moon's continuous presence coupled with this new occurrence must be part of an extremely rare years-long celestial phenomenon, with some daring to suggest, generally to light mockery, that it may not be a once in several centuries event, but an entirely new one, pointing to the absence of any mention of such a thing in archival records.

Some poetry is written, some songs are sung, and artists have a new source of inspiration. A few people just generally find it a bit creepy. Regardless of how much attention it's given by individuals, however, the general consensus among the populace is that it's interesting, but certainly temporary, even if "temporary" may be a bit longer than is necessarily comfortable. Even if it seems as though sometimes the moon looks just as it did before the Eclipse, before the touch of red returns. Even if it really is a little strange that the moon hasn't started setting again. Even if some of them have started having very, very bad dreams.

Things will go back to normal, they say. They always do.