One hex northeast, three southeast of Alakran.
East of the Shi-Ar rises a ridge of brown sandstone, the formations jutting and jagged, like the spine of some half-buried colossus.
About these rocks a superstition has grown: those who carve a prayer into an eastward surface will not live to see their prayer fulfilled, but verily what is written shall be done in the next generation. Most of the hundreds of prayers to be seen are decades if not centuries old, and concern mundane matters of wealth, offspring, property, justice, vengeance and the like. But on a 3% chance per hour of searching, a prayer may be found that it is within the power of adventurers to fulfill, carved in the past few decades by former inhabitants of one of the now-deserted settlements in this district. The names of the settlements, if verified by someone who once dwelt nearby, can be clues to the location of the peril.
(d6)
1. "Strike down the double-headed serpent that ate my best camel" (hex #25)
2. "Protect my children and all mothers' children against the blood drinker that comes by night" (hex #27)
3. "May the hyena-heads that slew my village fall to the ground lifeless; may the hyenas that ate my goats and sheep fall to the ground lifelesss; may dogs and jackals pick their bones" (hexes #9 and #43)
4. "Avenge, O Mitra, the fall of Tur Kasgi. Turn its altar to good, and away from evil." (two years ago; yet to be explained)
5-6: A prayer to end the droughts of the past ten years, that have undermined Dulsharna and brought the hordes of chaos. This will be the most difficult to fulfill, but within the reach of a whole campaign, it may be accomplished.
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