The Sleeping City

Necropolis

At the base of a mountain there is an arched doorway carved into the impressive rock. To get in is somewhat a riddle Faeila and Tauren will have to figure out, since it repels prying people. Inside is a small room with a bench cut out of the rock, a lamp with many orbs of light and a staircase descending to the deep dark labyrinth. Tunnels from one end to the other, branching off each other into other cryptic bedrooms. A voice calls for them to follow and a wisp of fading light beckons Faeila and Tauren further inside...

Themes

• Death and Loss

• Memories

• Light in Darkness

Structure

Exposition

Glimpse of Story

Faeila and Tauren have arrived in the city of Rothenia, Tauren's birth home. Tauren pulled the reins for his rather large bull to stop pulling the caravan and rest. "We're home, Alphie." Alphie made a deep sound, probably in relief. Faeila summons her spirit mirror to look at the image of location for their first Trial. The mirror's reflection made a ripple motion and came into focus with the image of a pathway leading to a mountain. Upon closer inspection an arched doorway looks to be built into the rock.
Looking at Tauren in hopes he would know. "Where do you suppose this is?" With a straight face he replies with a blank expression in his eyes. "No idea." Faeila's expression went from hopeful to hopeless in a blink of an eye. "How will we find it then?"
"I don't know how this thing works... but let's try something." Tauren summoned his spirit compass and flipped the cover to reveal [its inner workings]. Nothing happened. "Bring your mirror over here and see if it does anything."
Faeila took a few steps closer to Tauren with her mirror, but nothing happened. It wasn't until she placed it right underneath his compass that it spun around wildly. A map became visible to them above the compass and a stream of light carved the path to the Trial.

Components

Goals

• Getting through the doorway's barrier at the base of the mountain.

• Finding their way around a dark and cold labyrinth.

• Attaining the Spirit Sword.

Hooks

• Learning what the main characters are after.

• Discovering how the two work together and their differences.

• To learn what it means to lose one's own life.

Stakes

• If they don't succeed going through the barrier, they fail attaining the Spirit Sword. Without that they can't learn about their journey or why they are going through it.

• People have been known to get lost and never seen again.

• Attaining the Spirit Sword seals them into the adventure to gain 5 other pieces, which marks them for preparation into the War of Souls.

Moral Quandaries

Meeting an angel for the first time as they have never seen one before. This angel gives them instruction to follow a certain passageway in the tomb leading to the Spirit Sword. However, Faeila has a feeling that something is off but can't put words to it. They're at the right place according to her spirit mirror, but Tauren's spirit compass is a mess.

They begin to question if they have made the right decision to dive in this Trial head on without a plan.

Relations

Adversaries

• The Fallen. An enemy to the Bright One Faeila and Tauren pledged to follow prior to the Trial.

Backdrops

Locations

• Grassland with a path leading the way to a huge mountain and at its base is an arched doorway leading into the sleeping city.

• A cold and dark labyrinth with the patters of rats and what sounds to be falling rocks...?

• A certain sepulcher where an illuminating light sits.

Threats

The Fallen.

Encounters

• Personal Riddle Solving.

• Exploration of history and mystery.

• Discovery of the Fallen and who they are and the Spirit Sword.

Past Events

The tomb called the Sleeping City was made in 100 AD and keeps growing generation after generation. Some call this place Necropolis because of the growing numbers of the dead.

Old scrolls, tattered and ripped in places as well as some light books can be found here, which tells the story of some of these people who once lived.

There is a certain memory marble that shows part of a story about the Spirit Sword.

Plot type

Scene