Vacar Slab
| Vacar Slab | |
|---|---|
| Information | |
| Plane | Dominaria |
| Part of | Sukurvia, Jamuraa |
Vacar Slab is a sacred site of execution according to the Old Way religion of Kenlefia. It is located in Jamuraa, somewhere close enough to Aerath for travelers from Kenlefia to be ambushed by Aerathi berserkers. The only vast desert that matches this description is Sukurvia.
Description
The top of the outcropping is ringed with many boulders, and together they form a crude but natural border for the level sand plot which covers the outcropping's summit. Dotting the sand like marbles dumped haphazardly from a child's bag were skulls, dozens of them, human and humanoid. There were no other bones, only the fleshless heads of long-dead people, black eye cavities staring into white-hot infinity. Next to each skull is a pole, atop which was mounted a flag that flutters in the dry wind. The desert sun pounds down from above, bleaching the skulls and fading the execution dates from each of the flags that have been planted to mark a particular burial. The rest of the bodies are beneath the sand, where the victims had stood while their captors buried them up to their necks in the ground.[1]
History
At some point, a group of Kenlefians went on their way to Vacar Slab to execute a man they called the Abuser, but the journey was perilous, and they started dying sequentially. Two were ambushed by Aerathi berserkers and killed, one was bitten by a poisonous viper, and their water-bearer Teeth fell off a cliff with most of their water. Then D'Bray, their flagbearer dies of thirst, and Cleatin, their Gray Ogre protector is killed by a Duneclaw. Then Methos too dies of thirst, and the remaining two, Methos's sister Ophelia and Akron Legionnaire Spirokai who feels no pain, bring the Abuser the rest of the way. They were caught in a Sandstorm, during which Ophelia freed the Abuser and tried to escape. Spirokai caught them, though, and buried the Abuser up to the neck. As he was about to do the same to Ophelia for betraying him, a zombified Teeth showed up and slashed Spirokai in the head with his sword. Teeth had been struck by a curse of undeath, and to end, he wrapped himself up in the last of their bandages, becoming a mummy. Before dying, the Abuser told Ophelia his name was Markus. Ophelia, now alone but carrying both a weapon and water, left Vacar Slab alone. But behind her, Spirokai had survived both his head wound and being buried alive, and started to claw his way out.[1]
References
- ↑ a b Michael G. Ryan (1996) The Old Way to Vacar Slab. In: Distant Planes, edited by Kathy Price. HarperPrism