Travec
| Travec | |
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| Plane | Dominaria |
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| Status | Rebuilt and planeshifted |
| Formerly part of | Rootwater, Rath |
Travec is a village somewhere in Dominaria, planeshifted there from Rath, its original location.
Description
On Rath, Travec straddled a bay of the Rootwater on Rath. Although the village was clear of the trees of Skyshroud, the forest was visible further into the Rootwater. The Stronghold of Rath was also visible in the other direction, and the village lay on the edge of a great flowstone plain, thus forming a meeting point of four different biomes.[1]
Travec’s buildings were fashioned of the same reed-like wood as its piers. They had coarse-woven fabric mesh for walls, paper windows, and thatched roofs. Spectacular varieties of flowering plants took root in the thatch, trying to reclaim the village for the nearby Skyshroud Forest. The lush vegetation tumbled down over the eaves of the houses in a vast, impromptu hanging garden. The Tower of Travec was made of the same stout reeds as the rest of the town. The wood had been lovingly fashioned into carved columns, sloping roofs, pointed cornices, and delicate balconies. Flowering vines wound up the tower's six tiers as it reached, needle-like, toward the sky. The tower bell echoed, loud and clear, rung each day at noon.[1]
History
In 4206 AR, Travec's shaman-in-training, Patwog en-Vec, went with the rogue Milgen en-Dal to find power in the mountains of Rath. Instead, they found and released a Laccolith Titan which killed them both and then went on a rampage in Travec itself. The great beast destroyed the Tower of Travec and the smithy, killing the village's Oracle, Retma en-Vec. The village's blacksmith, Salla en-Dal, sister of Milgen, managed to defeat the creature by binding it with the indestructible chain that had connected to the Tower's bell, and chaining the beast to the collapsing smithy, sending them both into death in the Rootwater as the boards beneath the building collapsed. [1]
Although the village was badly damaged, it was rebuilt by the villagers and when the Rathi Overlay happened, Travec became part of Dominaria. Legends of Salla's heroism still abounded decades later. [1]
References
- ↑ a b c d Stephen D. Sullivan, J. Robert King, ed. (2003.) "Crucible", The Monsters of Magic, Wizards of the Coast. ISBN-13 0-7869-2983-9.