Ancient Pictographs Found Throughout the Northlands
There are cliff faces, cave walls, and even monoliths scattered all throughout the Northern Kingdom that bear unknown pictographic designs that were painted on them in some distant time. According to the Dwarves and Hauflin, the designs were there since before history began. Their oldest oral traditions talk about the people that drew the pictographs having passed from the world before they arrived.
The Justicars warn against venturing to the areas where the pictographs are found, taking the tapered ears on the huminoid figures in some caves to be evidence that the areas were used to summon demons into the world in some distant past. It is feared by many that attempting to read the odd markings would reopen ancient portals and allow more demons to enter the world.
Those pictographs that have been examined, carefully, by scholars and Justicar historians, appear to depict demons accepting sacrifices of various animals, some of which are unknown to any recorded texts and are thought to be from the demon world. In several of the caves where pictographs have been discovered, great dragons appear to command the demons toward battle or lead the demons to feast on the sacrificial offerings.
Posessing any resproductions of the pictographs is considered proof by the Justicars that someone is attempting to summon demons, and anyone that is known to have spent any time near an area where pictographs have been discovered is considered corrupted by demonic influences and should undergo a Justicar ritual of cleansing to remove any taint from their soul.
Some of the most feared markings are to be found at several stone circles that can be found in the Norhtern Kingdom. According to the ancint writings of the Temple of Justice, these massive circles of standing stones were where demons gathered on certain nights of the year to feast on the flesh of any they had corrupted. The Temple of Justice broke and knocked down the stones of three sites, but it is expected that there are other such stone structures still hidden in the wilderness.
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