One simply has to wonder why it is that a village younger than all other settlements, all by itself on a little peninsula, has a crystal chalice that is just as old as the collapsed Lilty Kingdom's, which the caravan of Alfitaria still uses. There has to be a story behind it, long forgotten. A gift from a lost city, perhaps? Legend has it that Tipa lost its original chalice many years ago when it was nearly filled with myrrh, and the people despaired because the crystal's blessing was fading. But if that story is true, then where did the myrrh come from which preserved the crystal for another hear and halted the advance of the miasma?
In Tipa many cultures have blended together. There is a song that is attributed to an unknown caravanner, known the world over as a favorite of crystal caravans to this day. While most can only trace the song as something they heard secondhand, the people of Tipa have passed down a book of music and tall tales that contains what is according the scholars the earliest written copy by far. In the books pages are records of a few scattered events spanning years that seem to recount the story of a doomed caravan, and the haunting words of another song believed to have been penned by the same caravanner, which only the members of Tipa's caravan know the melody of...
"Far away the sun shines on a village
As it has on none other before
But one day the sun will set on Tida
And the wanderers at last will go home
Whether in body or spirit
We will all be drawn home..."
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When the Sun Set
Hayran KurguA Crystal Chronicles story Follow the ill-fated Tida caravan and discover the secret behind its disappearance. The villagers in Tida died when their crystal's blessing faded and the miasma flooded their previously beautiful home. Even in their final...
