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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
It smells of rot, moss and stagnant things, and gives off a low rumbling punctuated by an occasional snap. Though the ground in this region of the forest was pitted with mires and swamps, this particular pool had always been known as "The Bog". It had no name, but the villagers of the Approaches all knew that it claimed them. The Bog was their protection, because even the things that terrorized the forest feared the Bog. As a consequence, the villagers only gave lip service to fealty to [[Davriel Cane|Lord of the Approaches]], and even to religion. The sole thing they really seemed to respect was that watery pit. And [[The Bog Entity|whatever lived deep within it]]. | It smells of rot, moss and stagnant things, and gives off a low rumbling punctuated by an occasional snap. Though the ground in this region of the forest was pitted with mires and swamps, this particular pool had always been known as "The Bog". It had no name, but the villagers of the Approaches all knew that it claimed them. The Bog was their protection, because even the things that terrorized the forest feared the Bog. As a consequence, the villagers only gave lip service to fealty to [[Davriel Cane|Lord of the Approaches]], and even to religion. The sole thing they really seemed to respect was that watery pit. And [[The Bog Entity|whatever lived deep within it]]. | ||
Villagers that died left instructions for their bodies to be returned to the Bog. You didn’t need to weigh bodies down when feeding them to the Bog. Corpses sank in and did not return, and the Bog consumed their souls. | |||
But few of the villagers accepted the Angel’s blessed sleep. | ==History== | ||
When [[List of secondary characters/Innistrad|Prioress Merlinde]] arrived — sent to the region by the [[Church of Avacyn]] to teach the people the correct path of faith — she went to the Bog and looked into it using her powers. There, she found something terrible, vast, and ancient. Knowing that she could not fight it with conventional prayers or wards, she built the priory of [[the Nameless Angel]], and dedicated everything she had to converting the people of the Approaches. But few of the villagers accepted the Angel’s [[blessed sleep]]. | |||
Merlinde was finally making some progress with the people of the Approaches, when [[Tacenda Verlasen]] and he sister [[Willia]] were born and started manifesting powers. It made the people follow the Bog again, upended nearly everything she had accomplished so far. When the girls were about fourteen, she turned the tide around again by converting Willia. | |||
==References== | ==References== |
Revision as of 11:26, 27 December 2018
The Bog is a perfectly circular pool in woods of the Kessig Approaches on Innistrad.[1]
Description
It smells of rot, moss and stagnant things, and gives off a low rumbling punctuated by an occasional snap. Though the ground in this region of the forest was pitted with mires and swamps, this particular pool had always been known as "The Bog". It had no name, but the villagers of the Approaches all knew that it claimed them. The Bog was their protection, because even the things that terrorized the forest feared the Bog. As a consequence, the villagers only gave lip service to fealty to Lord of the Approaches, and even to religion. The sole thing they really seemed to respect was that watery pit. And whatever lived deep within it. Villagers that died left instructions for their bodies to be returned to the Bog. You didn’t need to weigh bodies down when feeding them to the Bog. Corpses sank in and did not return, and the Bog consumed their souls.
History
When Prioress Merlinde arrived — sent to the region by the Church of Avacyn to teach the people the correct path of faith — she went to the Bog and looked into it using her powers. There, she found something terrible, vast, and ancient. Knowing that she could not fight it with conventional prayers or wards, she built the priory of the Nameless Angel, and dedicated everything she had to converting the people of the Approaches. But few of the villagers accepted the Angel’s blessed sleep.
Merlinde was finally making some progress with the people of the Approaches, when Tacenda Verlasen and he sister Willia were born and started manifesting powers. It made the people follow the Bog again, upended nearly everything she had accomplished so far. When the girls were about fourteen, she turned the tide around again by converting Willia.