https://wiki.achaea.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Logosmas_in_the_northlands&feed=atom&action=historyLogosmas in the northlands - Revision history2024-03-29T12:06:05ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.36.0https://wiki.achaea.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Logosmas_in_the_northlands&diff=37384&oldid=prevShirszae at 13:37, 27 March 20172017-03-27T13:37:46Z<p></p>
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</table>Shirszaehttps://wiki.achaea.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Logosmas_in_the_northlands&diff=36830&oldid=prevShirszae at 02:40, 24 March 20172017-03-24T02:40:32Z<p></p>
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</table>Shirszaehttps://wiki.achaea.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Logosmas_in_the_northlands&diff=36829&oldid=prevShirszae: Created page with "By: Erisycthon Posted on: November 13, 2006 Logosmas in the Tundra Have you ever met the old toymaker in Caer Witrin? He's a nice old fellow. Sells toboggans, balls, and t..."2017-03-24T02:38:32Z<p>Created page with "By: Erisycthon Posted on: November 13, 2006 Logosmas in the Tundra Have you ever met the old toymaker in Caer Witrin? He's a nice old fellow. Sells toboggans, balls, and t..."</p>
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Posted on: November 13, 2006<br />
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Logosmas in the Tundra<br />
<br />
<br />
Have you ever met the old toymaker in Caer Witrin? He's a nice old fellow.<br />
Sells toboggans, balls, and toy soldiers. My mother told me once that every<br />
thirty years, if I were good, the toyman of Caer Witrin would visit in the<br />
night at Logosmas time, and bring me toys and treats, putting them in my<br />
Logosmas stocking.<br />
<br />
Well, I grew up during a period between Logosmases, but there were fabulous<br />
stories about the magical time when there were stockings and mistletoe<br />
everywhere. Presents were passed out, and there was pudding, and family,<br />
brotherly love and goodwill towards man. And I think one of my favorite<br />
Logosmas stories was the story of how that elderly toy maker, one year, brought<br />
Logosmas to the tundra, far up in the north.<br />
<br />
It was a normal Logosmas at first, just like any other. The toy maker was<br />
checking his list of good and naughty children. He got all his presents in<br />
order. Perfumes from Marianna, enchanted goods he was supplied with through<br />
the Arcane Kindred, little miniature instruments from Salieri. He had his sack<br />
all full, that fateful Logosmas eve night. Everyone's stockings, he knew,<br />
were hung with care.<br />
<br />
Our old toymaker was a jester by trade before he started up his little shop in<br />
the Vashnars, and he never totally forgot that trade. He charged up his own<br />
chariot tarot and flung it to the ground<br />
<br />
Loading the vehicle with his joyful cargo, the toymaker set out, delivering<br />
toys to all the young ones of Sapience. Each of Handel's little choirmembers<br />
received a new lute, in Shallam. Timmy got a new kite, to replace the one he<br />
lost when he got scared and let go of the string last Mayaween.<br />
<br />
In Ashtan, he left a bag of stasis in Amadia's apprentice's stocking. The<br />
little fella was learning to make some fine jewelry, and would definitely want<br />
to keep some of his finer specimens preserved.<br />
<br />
His magical ride took him to every city, and even between, to the little ones<br />
in Manusha, where he dropped little chess sets in the stocking of little<br />
Tshaya. Venasia Enverren got a puppet of a pretty glubber woman. In<br />
Tasur'ke, our toy maker dropped off candy and bouncy balls for the little<br />
ones. He was making great time, and the Logosmas eve was almost over.<br />
<br />
But then, disaster struck. A sharp wind suddenly wrested control of the<br />
sleigh-chariot away from the toymaker, and he found himself blinded by a<br />
violent blizzard, thrown this way and that around the sky. He heard a lout<br />
snap, and felt the reins go slack in his hands as the flying goats which led<br />
his chariot were loosed from it by the snapping of his reins. Helplessly, the<br />
toymaker began uttering fervent prayers to Lord Thoth that his end would be<br />
painless as he felt himself begin to plummet blindly downwards, at the mercy of<br />
the wind.<br />
<br />
But suddenly, SPLASH, he wasn't dashed to pieces against the icy tundra after<br />
all! His chariot landed in a frigid sea, just off a little peninsula. Gaping<br />
about in wonder at the village nestled just a little inland, the toymaker was<br />
astonished that such a quaint little place, with penguins waddling around, and<br />
snowshoe hares hopping about, had gone on existing right under his nose, and<br />
he'd never heard of it.<br />
<br />
How many Logosmases had they skipped? How many stockings had gone unfilled or<br />
(worse) unhung? There were villagers walking about tending the herds of<br />
reindeer when he slowly dragged his chariot onto the land, panting with<br />
exertion as he greeted a bundled-up man sitting near the pen of reindeer.<br />
<br />
"Hello, stranger!" said the man, his Achaean a little accented, "Welcome<br />
to Kamleikan."<br />
<br />
The toymaker gruffly panted out a greeting, still taking in his surroundings,<br />
and finally leaning agaist a fencepost, his breathing laboured. Obviously, old<br />
jesters aren't very well-suited to carting around chariots.<br />
<br />
"What brings you up here? The blizzards are dangerous of late. Every 30<br />
years or so, it gets so bad, like there's a wall of snow," giving a<br />
chuckle, the man strokes the neck of a nearby reindeer, "We always say only a<br />
fool would try to trudge through that. Well, here you are."<br />
<br />
"Fool, eh?" laughed the toymaker, "I guess 've been called that.<br />
"˜Jester' is usually the more polite term for what I do. 'm just out<br />
delivering gifts for Logosmas. I was on my way back west, to make a last stop<br />
in the Darkenwood, but got blown off course, and ended up here. As you can<br />
see, my chariot crashed in the waters off your peninsula. Luckily my toys are<br />
still in-tact, and I can always call another chariot."<br />
<br />
"Logosmas, you say? Sounds like an interesting fellow. You say he lives in<br />
the Darkenwood?"<br />
<br />
"No, no no, Logosmas is a season, not a person. It's where we remember<br />
that the Logos created us all with a love of live, and whether we be Evil,<br />
Good, Forestral, or Chaotic, whether we craft or kill or explore, we're all<br />
here because of the great Gift of the Creator, and He wants our lives here to<br />
be the best they can be. It's a time when we remember that all Sapience is<br />
one great brotherhood; A brotherhood that wars, sometimes, and argues, one that<br />
disagrees. But that's what makes Sapience our home. So I try to remind<br />
people of that joy by carrying toys about for the children, hoping that<br />
they'll remember my generosity, and think to put a little gold, some candy,<br />
or even coal for those hard, cold nights, in the stockings of their friends,<br />
and when they're older, their children."<br />
<br />
"Wow, sounds like quite a season, to be sure. It's a shame 've never<br />
heard of it. Here in Kamleikan, we don't do much in the way of toy-making.<br />
We make balls from whale blubber, or rope a couple of penguins together and<br />
sled on them." Rubbing hs chin the man said, "We should start making<br />
stockings, though, and trading the little things we can find up here. Why,<br />
just last week, I found a narwhal tooth near the water, and 'm sure my son<br />
would enjoy getting to show that off."<br />
<br />
The toymaker grinned slyly. "I have some extra toys, actually. Some of the<br />
good children 'd meant to deliver to in Mhaldor, it turns out, were sold<br />
into slavery down in the mines of Blackrock. Poor kids won't have a use for<br />
toys," frowning, he motions to the bag in his chariot, "But 'll see if I<br />
can't give some of this to your children. To be honest, I should be going<br />
soon, anyway."<br />
<br />
And so the toymaker gave some of his toys out to the Kamleikinian children,<br />
their eyes filled with glee as they accepted the new toys; the girls squirting<br />
their pretty perfumes into the furry bits of their parkas, so the scent would<br />
stay, boys playing with toy swords, or chasing around hares in the snow fields<br />
on toboggans, none could remember a time they'd all been so happy.<br />
<br />
At last it was time for the toymaker to leave. After a hearty dinner, late in<br />
the evening, he took his sack over his shoulder, and stood facing the whole<br />
village of Kamleikan.<br />
<br />
"Merry Logosmas to all!" he said, "And too all a good-." Frowning, the<br />
toymaker shuffled his tarot deck, taking out cards, putting them back in, his<br />
brow furrowing more and more with each draw. "Great, 'm out of Chariots<br />
and Blanks. Now what am I going to do?"<br />
<br />
Kicking over a snowdrift, the toymaker flopped down, sprawled in the snow, his<br />
eyes closed, tears squeezing through his closed eyelids. What now? Here he<br />
was, trapped in Kamleikan, with no way out. The snow had come down so hard,<br />
there was no way he could walk back. The distance was just too far.<br />
<br />
He didn't realize at first, but another sort of wetness was on his cheek,<br />
mingling with his tears. Opening his eyes, he felt the soft nuzzle of a<br />
reindeer against his left cheek. As it happened, two reindeer were standing<br />
together to his side, looking down at him with what could almost be considered<br />
pity.<br />
<br />
"Friend, perhaps you could let our reindeer pull your toboggan. These two<br />
have obviously taken a liking to you, and the herd's been remarkably healthy<br />
this year." The man who the toymaker had first seen offered his hand to help<br />
up the aged jester.<br />
<br />
"I suppose, if you wouldn't miss them. But still, the snow is deep, and<br />
'd need something that can fly to get through it all." The toymaker<br />
scratched his head, when suddenly, an idea struck him. Reaching into his pack,<br />
he pulled out some gold, and flung it into the air. Down came a couple of<br />
balloons, which he smilingly took in hand, leading the two reindeer to his<br />
chariot, securing them with a makeshift harness salvaged from the scraps of the<br />
original one.<br />
<br />
Finally, the toymaker attached the balloons to the chariot, and urged the<br />
reindeer forward with a snap of the reins. Onward, faster, they ran to the<br />
sea, and suddenly, the chariot began to float up, up into the air, carried by<br />
the balloons.<br />
<br />
The ride was smooth for a time, but eventually, the storms returned late that<br />
night. "We can't fly through this. It'll only make us crash again, and<br />
this time, there's no water about to break my fall," thought the elderly<br />
toymaker to himself. "There's a tower and a few huts. Perhaps we'll<br />
land there, to wait out the night."<br />
<br />
So land they did, and the toymaker took the balloons from the sleigh and popped<br />
them, resting the thing beside a crude hut, knocking on the door. He was met at<br />
the door by a scared-looking woman, huddled in clothes that were nowhere near<br />
thick enough for the outside temperature to be totally nullified.<br />
<br />
Moved by pity for her meagre existence, the man frowned, knowing he couldn't<br />
possibly impose on these people. "Hello," he said, "I'm a<br />
Caer-Witrinite here, delivering toys for the Logosmas season."<br />
<br />
Just as before, he explained to the woman (and eventually the whole village<br />
that gathered around to see the new stranger amidst them) the meaning of<br />
Logosmas, and what he did every 30 years.<br />
<br />
"If you want to give us a gift, slay Maklak, the ice wizard. He keeps us as<br />
little more than slaves. He drove some into the caves to live like animals.<br />
Our existence here is wretched due to his dread magic. He lives in the tower<br />
over there, guarded by his army of animated ice sculptures."<br />
<br />
"Aye!" shouted the people, en masse. "The wizard killed my father last<br />
year," said one little boy of no more than ten years, "because our tribute<br />
payment to him was 3 sovereigns short."<br />
<br />
So great were the shouts that a strange feeling deep within the toymaker was<br />
stirred. Not since he was a young journeyman had he felt this way. The<br />
adventurer's spirit was reawakened in this aged jester, and without delay, he<br />
set out for the wizard's tower, running helter-skelter at the ominous spire<br />
which housed the oppressor of the tundra.<br />
<br />
Taking his blackjack in hand, the toymaker rounded a drift, and saw the<br />
entrance. Standing just within the doorway were three massive humanoid<br />
figures, blue-hued, and semi-transparent. With a sense of awe the toymaker<br />
stepped forward, taking in the majestic, crystalline interior of the tower,<br />
even as the three golems began to advance menacingly toward him.<br />
<br />
Reaching into his pack, the toymaker grinned as he pulled out 3 of his toy<br />
soldiers, and began winding them, placing all three on the ground. He pointed<br />
them towards the golems, and patted them on the "heads" as they began to<br />
advance, slowly, to meet the three golems closing in. All three reached their<br />
frozen targets at the same time, and upon contacting the massive icy feet"<br />
<br />
<br />
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!<br />
<br />
<br />
The concussion bombs which the toymaker had put in them exploded violently,<br />
showering the room with shards of ice. The toymaker took out some implements<br />
and began nimbly constructing another bomb, but the process was interrupted by<br />
a soft "ahem!" from the stairway leading to the top of the tower.<br />
<br />
"Why, my old fellow, did you feel the need to slay my doorguards?" a deep<br />
and commanding voice echoed through the halls. Standing on the stairway was a<br />
man with piercing white eyes, midnight blue robes, and hair like icicles. This<br />
was undoubtedly the wizard of the ice tower: <br />
<br />
Maklak.<br />
<br />
He descended the stairway, a fourth golem in tow, a wicked grin plastered on<br />
his pale face, ice-blue lips curled in a wicked sneer. "'m afraid you're<br />
going to have to make up for their deaths with your own, old man." As the<br />
golem advanced towards the toymaker, Maklak raised his hands and hail began<br />
pouring down throughout the room, mysteriously appearing out of nowhere, and<br />
returning there after pelting the toymaker, who, for his part, shielded his<br />
head with an upraised arm until the storm passed. Unfortunately, at that<br />
point, the golem was closing fast, and he had to think of something to do to<br />
stop the thing, and quickly.<br />
<br />
With barely a thought, the seasoned jester shuffled a tarot card with the image<br />
of the Star out of his deck, charged it, and flung the thing. A meteor slammed<br />
full into the torso of the golem, and its heat was too much for the frozen body<br />
of the construct.<br />
<br />
Now with only a crazed ice-wizard to deal with, the toymaker took a few<br />
implements out of his bag. Nimbly flying, he began constructing a toy of<br />
sorts, a toy with a twist. Maklak laugh evilly as he advanced slowly, watching<br />
the cubical construct take form. Finally, upon reaching the toymaker, who had<br />
just finished, Maklak raised his staff, preparing to cast a horripilating blast<br />
of ice towards the toymaker. Then, he stopped, realizing what the toymaker's<br />
last-ditch effort was: a jack-in-the box!<br />
<br />
As Maklak watched, amusedly, the toymaker began cranking the child's toy,<br />
obviously not a threat. Soft music began playing as the toymaker cranked the<br />
box. Maklak snickered under his breath, figuring he'd give the man that last<br />
bit of joy: playing with one final toy. The music of the jack-in-the-box became<br />
faster and more frantic and a loud voice from within yelled, "Maklak, I'm<br />
a-cooomiiiiing!"<br />
<br />
Confused, Maklak cocked his head to the side, then began chanting the spell<br />
that would end the fight for good. Alas for our evil ice-wizard, the spell<br />
came too late. The top of the jack-in-the-box flipped open, and up popped a<br />
jester puppet with razor-sharp teeth. Growing to sudden, improbable size, the<br />
spring-loaded puppet ripped Maklak's head off with a single bite.<br />
<br />
It is said that there was much rejoicing that Logosmas in the tundra. The<br />
toymaker returned to the village a hero, and returned to Caer Witrin<br />
invigorated from his adventure, even more excited about his journey 30 years<br />
hence.</div>Shirszae