Dancing Lights

Lie of the Dancing Lights

Beware the Dancing Lights
Flipping about in the Dark
Playing in a Child's Sight
Here the Children will Part
They Follow the Dance
Into the Wilde They Go
The Children Love to Prance
And Play To and Fro
Lost in the Caves
The Lights Lead Astray
With one Last Wave
The Children went Away

The Dancing Lights Lead
And the Children Follow
Into the Demon Seeds
The Children Become Hollow
The Lights fill the Holes
As Demons begin to Sing
The Children Lose their Souls
Into the Heart they Bring
Soon the Army will Rise
And Children will Return
As Demons in Disguise
And Crevice will Burn

— Selvin Korithia

Myth of the Dancing Lights

There is an ore found on the Guild Stratum that creates a dust that sparkles as it floats around. These Dancing Lights, as they became called, would float around randomly and at first became a novelty to look at. It soon became a distraction and the Kyren decided to purge the lights from the city. The Dancing Lights still exists outside of the city. In the first few years, some would enter the Wilde to see the Dancing Lights. Sadly, the Wilde is an untamed and unexplored area and many never returned. The worst were the children that were enthralled by the lights and would follow them and be lost. This created a public outcry to try and protect the children and led to many failed ideas.

Lights of the Wilde

The Wilde is the name of the unexplored caves of the Guild Stratum. The Wilde is dangerous and many lives are lost to it. The further you get away from the city, it becomes far less likely of coming back. The maze of caves becomes too difficult to navigate back.

Selvin Korithia

Selvin was a father and lost his daughter to the Dancing Lights. He decided he would keep his last child safe in the only way he could. He told his son the story of the Dancing Lights. The story detailed a plan by demons to lure children away and take their souls. It was a simple story, but effective in keeping his son away. The story moved around the Cavern and slowly became a common story told to children to prevent them from wandering away into the Wilde.

Stories of the Dancing Lights

Selvin would later write several books about the Dancing Light and many became more twisted as he wrote. These books did not become as popular as his first story and have become hard to find. His children became worried about him and convinced him to stop writing. There are rumors of a half written manuscript held by his ancestors to this day. They have refused to release it as they say it would tarnish a good man's name.