Lost Artefacts

Chalice of Winter

(AN: Been planning to do a more adventure-styled Game of Thrones novel and here it is)

Deep in the hills of Norvos lay a ruined city belonging to the remnants of the ancient Sarnor empire, though this city was not sacked by the Dothraki it was however buried when a natural disaster caused the mountain to come crumbling down burying most of the over city, though the city was special as it was one of the last Sarnori cities that still kept to their old gods.

Ankasi the spider goddess of deceit and destruction demands offerings and sacrifice and in return will rain down chaos and destruction upon thy enemies if sacrifices were not given then be ready to suffer plagues and droughts.

Under the city is the last Temple to Ankasi that is still intact, inside are gold and Jewels all the offerings that were given to appease the vengeful god, but that is all inconsequential when compared to some of the treasures inside, some being utterly priceless.

A boy standing at just over 6ft tall, reasonably tall for a boy 10 and 5 name-days old dressed in a short-sleeved tunic wearing a leather cuirass and cam braces, his white tunic contrasted well with his tanned skin, he was very handsome by conventional standards he had violet eyes with a strong jaw. He stood at the entrance to a cave holding a torch.

"Why are we here again Jon" A girl huffs as she stands next to the man being a head shorter than he was, she had similarly tanned skin, and short dark hair, and she wore a nearly transparent yellow dress that went down to her thighs but was cut at the sides to allow for combat, she wore brown breeches with brown boots, she was currently eating an apple wondering why they came to this place.

"I've already told you Tyene, we're being offered 100,000 gold pieces for what's in there" Jon replies to her looking at the attractive girl as juices from the apple spill onto her thick pink lips.

"You know I hate caves" she whines trying to guilt Jon.

"Remind me if I'm wrong but who was it that spent their coin from the last job on some Lynese aphrodisiac then tried to spike me," Jon says as he narrows his eyes at her, she just laughs it off.

"Come on you need to relax once in a while it's always 'ruins' this and 'artefacts' that with you," Tyene says in a mocking voice.

"It didn't work though did it, it was a complete waste of your coin" Jon replies to her.

"Oooh? Then why did you fuck me" Tyene hits back causing Jon to sigh before walking into the cave.

"Let's go we should be out before sunset," Jon says trying to get the job started.

Tyene laughs as she skips along following him into the cave.

"We've gotten lucky, one of my contacts let me know that a recent mining team operating in this area had broken through to the temple below the city, as of this moment they have probably gotten together mercenaries and are pulling away miners from their other operations, so we need to get in there and get out quickly" Jon explains to Tyene.

"Will there at least be some gold we can loot?" Tyene says in a bored tone.

"Most certainly" Jon replies to her, she suddenly perks up and goes ahead of Jon.

"Come on what're you waiting for let's go" she says to Jon as she pulls him further along.

Making their way through the tunnels they finally come to an opening in what looks like a stone wall, climbing through they are met with a large chamber, the walls were painted black except for a large strip in the middle which was red and stretched from the door where you entered the chamber to the end of the room which was devoid of any brickwork, it was just a black wall it looked like the void. On the sides were eight golden pillars which seemed to support the room each having their own torch holder.