Statue of the Serpent Marfal
In the years after Marfal was slain and the médōnai were pushed out from civilized society, a great statue was carved at the foot of Ataroun. The sculptor was mostly untrained, an unknown médōnai with little formal training in the arts. The statue is crude in places, long-since worn down and cracked by the rain and blowing sands of the unforgiving desert, yet it still holds a life-like likeness to Marfal as she is described in a serpentine form.
It is a depiction of her death, with two arrows piercing her muzzle and pining her head to her chest through her heart.
Purpose / Function
The statue pays homage to Marfal's martyrdom and serves as a reminder to both médōnai and humans of the blood that has been shed.
Alterations
Wind, sand, and rain has worn the statue down, although it remains in relatively-pristine condition. Moss and lichen have begun to encroach on the lower reaches, and a few cracks and chips decorate the statue's surface.
Architecture
The statue itself was carved from a block of marble dragged up from Pageneid. Normally, a marble quarry would readily sell such a large piece of rock, but given the reputation of médōnai and what it was going towards, the block was stolen rather than sold.
History
The piece was carved by a young médōnai who's name has been forgotten by history. She began working around 20 r.e.a and did not finish for another five years.
For nearly sixty years, the statue weathered the desert sands without consequence; in the year 75, a raid performed by the nearest village nearly saw the statue toppled. A life was given to prevent its destruction, and after the médōnai succumbed to her grievous wounds at the statue's base, she was laid to rest beneath the sands nearby it. A little plaque on the near pillar holds her name and the tale of her sacrificial deed.
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