Bluteeth Glade, the Myths

Ahh, Blueteeth Glade, a place of wonder and horror.

Where up is down and left is right,

Good is bad and black is white,

Where here is there and day is night,

High is low and heavy is light.

Wet is dry, boy is girl, cat is dog and on and on with such provincial nonsense as proclaimed by Arborian song and poetry pertaining to the Glade!

The wonder is surving the horror that is Arborian entertainment!

The reality of the Glade is somewhat more subtle and infinitely more astounding, if the myths are to be believed.

A word of caution; what follows has been gathered over many decades from varied sources. Most is third-hand rumour, folklore, legend. A mere fraction is gold; as told by a handful of unwary travellers who escaped the twisted truth.

Blueteeth Glade Myths

According to all of the associated myths, Blueteeth Glade is perhaps the most dangerous place in the Verdantswathe, if not all of Sulamynen.
The name is derived from a strange, mysterious and powerful figure in Arborian history;

Bela Blueteeth.

The Glade is considered her domain although I have yet to find a living soul who has ever seen her or has any substantive evidence of her existence. All references are oral, such as the fine example of poetry recited earlier.
The tales, songs and poems describe aspects of the terrain as one approaches the Glade, though the veracity of such testimony should be carefully weighed.
What does seem consistent in the accumulated mythology of the Glade is its creation; how it came to be.
This is where Blueteeth fell, they say, just before The Flare ravaged Aeon and destroyed wonders of nature and intellect alike. A powerful manipulator of reality before the Fall, the raw tide of wrath submerged her, drowned her, ressurrected her with a soul of pure chaos.
It was where she was shielded from her hunters by a small clan of Arborians; recovering, slowly regenerating, reshaping, and reordering reality as she was reformed.
It was where she was lost and saved, avowing guardianship of the carers, tethering to a land corrupted and renewed; the Choke, the Fracture and the Glade.

Warped Substance

Strange phenomena exists some distance from the Glade itself. Shadowy beasts and ambulatory plants roam unchallenged. Otherwise commonplace wildlife is altered; enlarged or disturbing hybrid fusions stalk the undergrowth.
The effects become more intense with proximity:

• sundered landscapes splintered and defying gravity,
• waterfalls reversed, rising into the blue pool of the sky,
• mesmerising foliage luring the unwary to slumber for an eternity,
• enormous eternal elemental beings debate abstract concepts,
• nightmares syphoned from the mind and made manifest.

The Glade

Details of the Glade itself are spectral in substance; supposition, rumour, myth are more apt descriptors.
The heart of the glade is thought to be the eye of the storm, a relative calm at the centre of the chaos.
Athough fiercely jealous of her solitude, the twisted garden is supposed to be the playground for living elements, intelligent vocal flora and fauna, and spirits untethered from the petrified bodies of intruders.
Time is mutable here with bubbles of accelerated, slowed or even reversed chronological substance floating and rolling around the landscape.
All of this is the mythical abode of Bela Blueteeth.
If you believe the Arborian myths.
What do I believe?
I am a mere custodian of knowledge; impartial and unbiased, er, usually.
I am also a floating sentient skull.
What else may be possible?
Iaro Gaunt

Significant Figures

Bela Blueteeth - Warper of Substance

In Summary

Arborian myths

A result of the Flare 3,000 years ago

Exists deep in the Verdantswathe

Warped reality

• landscapes defying gravity
• waterfalls rising
• mesmerising foliage
• elementals
• nightmares made manifest
• spirits
• petrified intruders
• time distortions