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| =====Origin===== | =====Origin===== | ||
| ==== Magic Made: Chapter Five ==== | ==== Magic Made: Chapter Five ==== | ||
| - | [[Fae]] | [[Articles of Magic]] | + | [[Fae]] | [[Articles of Magic]]\\ |
| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] | ||
| * its story is in Chapter Five of Magic Made | * its story is in Chapter Five of Magic Made | ||
| * was created to be of use to humans who help the fae | * was created to be of use to humans who help the fae | ||
| * created by Lugh the ancient hero of the Tuatha de Danann | * created by Lugh the ancient hero of the Tuatha de Danann | ||
| * it predated Christ' | * it predated Christ' | ||
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| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] | ||
| + | * the walking stick was a thing of life, not death< | ||
| + | * one makes sheep have twins | ||
| + | * one helps you find your way home | ||
| + | * one allows you to see people as they really are | ||
| =====Description===== | =====Description===== | ||
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| * it's about four feet long, made of some sort of twisty wood with a gray finish; it's got a ring of silver on the bottom and a silver cap with Celtic designs on the top< | * it's about four feet long, made of some sort of twisty wood with a gray finish; it's got a ring of silver on the bottom and a silver cap with Celtic designs on the top< | ||
| * after used to attack the blackened silver knob had smoke gently rising from it | * after used to attack the blackened silver knob had smoke gently rising from it | ||
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| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]] | ||
| + | * Oakman turned the Walking Stick into a spear | ||
| [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]] | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]] | ||
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| * it was graceful and slender< | * it was graceful and slender< | ||
| - | [[Night Broken]] | + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] |
| * old and beautiful | * old and beautiful | ||
| - | * particularly contrary artifact< | ||
| * the silver butt of the walking stick sharpened itself into a blade, a spearhead< | * the silver butt of the walking stick sharpened itself into a blade, a spearhead< | ||
| * a four-foot-long oak staff made of twisty wood, with a gray finish and a ring of silver on the bottom; the silver cap that sometimes became a spearhead was covered with Celtic designs< | * a four-foot-long oak staff made of twisty wood, with a gray finish and a ring of silver on the bottom; the silver cap that sometimes became a spearhead was covered with Celtic designs< | ||
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| [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #12: [[Smoke Bitten]] | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #12: [[Smoke Bitten]] | ||
| * light traced through the runes on the old gray wood and lingered on the silver on the blunt ends of the walking stick< | * light traced through the runes on the old gray wood and lingered on the silver on the blunt ends of the walking stick< | ||
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| =====Quenching===== | =====Quenching===== | ||
| + | [[Fae Magic & Fae Glamour]]\\ | ||
| [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] | ||
| + | * quenched Lugh's walking stick in the blood of an ancient Native American monster | ||
| * Mercy stabbed the River Devil in the heart | * Mercy stabbed the River Devil in the heart | ||
| * she saw the silver-shod end re-form into a spearhead | * she saw the silver-shod end re-form into a spearhead | ||
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| * the staff had sucked the heat from her flesh; turned her black heart to white ice | * the staff had sucked the heat from her flesh; turned her black heart to white ice | ||
| * Mercy' | * Mercy' | ||
| + | * after the river devil died, the walking stick changed; it killed the otterkin and it was aware< | ||
| * blooded one of Lugh's creations in the heart of a creature even older and more magical than the walking stick | * blooded one of Lugh's creations in the heart of a creature even older and more magical than the walking stick | ||
| * it's been made into something different | * it's been made into something different | ||
| * Mercy holding it when it killed an otterkin; buried its suddenly sharp-again end in its throat with no help from Mercy; it lunged on it's own | * Mercy holding it when it killed an otterkin; buried its suddenly sharp-again end in its throat with no help from Mercy; it lunged on it's own | ||
| - | * the oakman had used it to kill a vampire and it hadn't changed; but Mercy had done something with it | + | * Mercy had done something with it |
| - | * quenched Lugh's walking stick in the blood of an ancient Native American monster | + | |
| * no denying that's not a good thing; violence begets violence—especially when there' | * no denying that's not a good thing; violence begets violence—especially when there' | ||
| * there was an eagerness, a shadow of violence that seemed to lurk around it | * there was an eagerness, a shadow of violence that seemed to lurk around it | ||
| * when Mercy was at her most prickly, the walking stick was usually somewhere nearby | * when Mercy was at her most prickly, the walking stick was usually somewhere nearby | ||
| - | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] | + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] |
| - | * after the river devil died, the walking stick changed; | + | * [[Uncle Mike]] thought Mercy quenched |
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| + | [[Mercyverse Short Fiction]]: [[Hollow]] | ||
| + | * when a weapon is quenched | ||
| =====Death===== | =====Death===== | ||
| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] | ||
| + | * killed by the [[Nueth]] death spell meant for Mercy | ||
| + | * this time Mercy wasn't the walking stick' | ||
| + | * a dance in which the partner was more skilled than her; it would have been fun; she could feel the walking stick' | ||
| + | * the walking stick called death to their enemy when he may have recovered from the injury< | ||
| + | * the walking stick spoke to Mercy; Magic armor it told her< | ||
| + | * Widow Queen threw a death spell at Mercy; the walking stick recognized it and twisted in Mercy' | ||
| + | * Mercy buried the walking stick in one of the garden bed near the back door, with Aiden, Jesse, and Adam as witnesses< | ||
| + | * seemed like a good resting place for an old object of power, a safe place where pretty things grew; Mercy planted lavender on top of it because she liked lavender; she'd be able to see the lavender when it grew when she was doing dishes< | ||
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| + | =====Return===== | ||
| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #12: [[Smoke Bitten]] | ||
| + | * Mercy' | ||
| + | * it wanted to bargain with Mercy to let it Be so that it could help her< | ||
| + | * Mercy chose to allow the walking stick to be again in order to protect Adam from Tilly< | ||
| + | * the walking stick is back again in the real world having followed Mercy both her and Adam's otherness< | ||
| ======Information & Usage Details====== | ======Information & Usage Details====== | ||
| ===== Iron Kissed ===== | ===== Iron Kissed ===== | ||
| [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] | ||
| - | * an antiquarian bookstore in the Uptown Mall in Richland; a man runs it; tell him Tad sent you but wait until he's alone in the store | ||
| * one of the fairy treasures | * one of the fairy treasures | ||
| * its story is in Chapter Five of Magic Made< | * its story is in Chapter Five of Magic Made< | ||
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| * those old things have a mind of their own | * those old things have a mind of their own | ||
| * the walking stick is wherever it wants to be; clever stick | * the walking stick is wherever it wants to be; clever stick | ||
| - | * it is very old; and old things can have a mind of their own | + | * sometimes those old things can do unexpected things; |
| * Mercy tried to give it back to the fae but it kept coming back to her | * Mercy tried to give it back to the fae but it kept coming back to her | ||
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| ===== Bone Crossed ===== | ===== Bone Crossed ===== | ||
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| * Lugh was a fair spearman; nothing he build but what couldn' | * Lugh was a fair spearman; nothing he build but what couldn' | ||
| * it follows Mercy because it owes her service; and because it likes her | * it follows Mercy because it owes her service; and because it likes her | ||
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| ===== Silver Borne ===== | ===== Silver Borne ===== | ||
| [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]] | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #5: [[Silver Borne]] | ||
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| ===== Night Broken ===== | ===== Night Broken ===== | ||
| [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] | ||
| - | * [[Alistair Beauclaire]] came looking for the walking stick< | ||
| - | * Zee had been very clear that the fae would not be amused where the walking stick had ended up< | ||
| - | * oakman used the walking stick to kill a vampire< | ||
| - | * he told Mercy; Lugh never made anything that couldn' | ||
| - | * Beauclaire didn't believe it was quenched because it was finished long ago and not a new artifact< | ||
| - | * [[Uncle Mike]] believed Mercy had quenched it< | ||
| * it killed that otterkin on its own< | * it killed that otterkin on its own< | ||
| - | * Beauclaire' | ||
| - | * it had been old and beautiful—and loyal to her as any sheepdog to its sheperd< | ||
| * if it had become tainted, then Mercy felt it was her fault because it had been her decision to use it to kill monsters< | * if it had become tainted, then Mercy felt it was her fault because it had been her decision to use it to kill monsters< | ||
| - | * Beauclaire values the walking stick; | + | * it is not powerful nor it its magic anything that would interest most mortals or fae< |
| * it was left with Mercy because whenever she tried to give it back, or one of the fae tried to claim it, it returned to her< | * it was left with Mercy because whenever she tried to give it back, or one of the fae tried to claim it, it returned to her< | ||
| * the walking stick could be the first, or even, the only one< | * the walking stick could be the first, or even, the only one< | ||
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| * the last time Mercy held it she'd felt its thirst for blood, and its magic had thrummed in her bones; now the wood was cool and she felt no magic; in knows how to hide itself better< | * the last time Mercy held it she'd felt its thirst for blood, and its magic had thrummed in her bones; now the wood was cool and she felt no magic; in knows how to hide itself better< | ||
| * the walking stick has a lot of affection for Mercy< | * the walking stick has a lot of affection for Mercy< | ||
| + | * particularly contrary artifact< | ||
| * the walking stick had tried to hurt Adam but hadn't quite managed it< | * the walking stick had tried to hurt Adam but hadn't quite managed it< | ||
| * a little too happy to hurt people lately< | * a little too happy to hurt people lately< | ||
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| ===== Fire Touched ===== | ===== Fire Touched ===== | ||
| [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] | ||
| - | * it followed Mercy home like a stray puppy the first time, it had seemed harmless< | ||
| * fae things are rarely what they seem; even very minor artifacts, given enough time, can gain in power< | * fae things are rarely what they seem; even very minor artifacts, given enough time, can gain in power< | ||
| * it was very old and stubborn< | * it was very old and stubborn< | ||
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| * since the walking stick had come back into her keeping, Mercy had been reading as much as she could about Lugh, who had created the walking stick< | * since the walking stick had come back into her keeping, Mercy had been reading as much as she could about Lugh, who had created the walking stick< | ||
| * one of the things it can do is show us the way home; that might be useful in Underhill< | * one of the things it can do is show us the way home; that might be useful in Underhill< | ||
| - | * when the walking choose to come to Mercy' | ||
| * Mercy felt the walking stick' | * Mercy felt the walking stick' | ||
| * either the blood or Underhill sang through the old wood< | * either the blood or Underhill sang through the old wood< | ||
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| * a dance in which the partner was more skilled than her; it would have been fun; she could feel the walking stick' | * a dance in which the partner was more skilled than her; it would have been fun; she could feel the walking stick' | ||
| * the walking stick called death to their enemy when he may have recovered from the injury< | * the walking stick called death to their enemy when he may have recovered from the injury< | ||
| - | * the walking stick spoke to Mercy; Magic armor it told her< | + | |
| - | * [[Nueth]] threw a death spell at Mercy; the walking stick recognized it and twisted in Mercy' | + | |
| - | * Mercy buried the walking stick in one of the garden bed near the back door, with Aiden, Jesse, and Adam as witnesses< | + | |
| - | * seemed like a good resting place for an old object of power, a safe place where pretty things grew; Mercy planted lavender on top of it because she liked lavender; she'd be able to see the lavender when it grew when she was doing dishes< | + | |
| ===== Smoke Bitten ===== | ===== Smoke Bitten ===== | ||
| [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #12: [[Smoke Bitten]] | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #12: [[Smoke Bitten]] | ||
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| [[Beauclaire]]\\ | [[Beauclaire]]\\ | ||
| - | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Night Broken]] \\ | + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] \\ |
| - | **Of Your Free Will**\\ | + | **The Exchange Between Mercy & Beauclaire**: |
| - | | + | Of my own free will, I give you this walking stick\\ |
| - | | + | Fashioned by Lugh, woken by the oakman, and changed by blood, changed by death, changed by spirit\\ |
| - | | + | Change comes to all things until the greatest change, which is death\\ |
| - | | + | This I entrust to your care\\ |
| + | * he came looking for his father' | ||
| + | * Zee had been very clear that the fae would not be amused where the walking stick had ended up< | ||
| + | * he didn't believe it was quenched because it was finished long ago and not a new artifact< | ||
| + | * His disparagement of the walking stick stung Mercy to her surprise< | ||
| + | * it had been old and beautiful—and loyal to her as any sheepdog to its shepherd< | ||
| + | * if it had become tainted, then Mercy felt it was her fault because it had been her decision to use it to kill monsters< | ||
| + | * he values the walking stick; it is not powerful nor it its magic anything that would interest most mortals or fae< | ||
| * the walking stick was warm and eager to go to Lugh's son | * the walking stick was warm and eager to go to Lugh's son | ||
| - | * Beauclaire | + | * he said it was fake and tossed it back to Mercy< |
| * it felt rejected; sulky; not as happy to go with him as it had been before< | * it felt rejected; sulky; not as happy to go with him as it had been before< | ||
| * it was changed from the last time he held it a thousand years ago, more or less< | * it was changed from the last time he held it a thousand years ago, more or less< | ||
| * Lugh's small magics tend to be more stable than the larger ones< | * Lugh's small magics tend to be more stable than the larger ones< | ||
| * almost seemed the walking stick spoke to him< | * almost seemed the walking stick spoke to him< | ||
| + | * the walking stick could be the first, or even, the only one< | ||
| + | * Mercy gave it to him but it came back to her< | ||
| [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] | ||
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| [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] | ||
| - | * admired the walking stick | + | * Mercy was uneasy with the walking stick and Coyote knew it; he admired the walking stick and hoped she'd understand why |
| - | * Charles had taught Mercy about guests and things they admired | + | * Charles had taught Mercy about guests and things they admired; she gifted Coyote the walking stick |
| - | * she gifted Coyote the walking stick | + | |
| * he said it's gotten a bit dangerous recently; and together the two of them would have marvelous adventures | * he said it's gotten a bit dangerous recently; and together the two of them would have marvelous adventures | ||
| * Mercy had given the walking stick back to the fae often and it had always returned; she thought it would stay with Coyote | * Mercy had given the walking stick back to the fae often and it had always returned; she thought it would stay with Coyote | ||
| - | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #7: [[Night Broken]] | + | |
| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] | ||
| * Mercy had given the walking stick to Coyote as a gift, and he'd taken it as a favor; she wasn't sure how he'd react when she asked for it back< | * Mercy had given the walking stick to Coyote as a gift, and he'd taken it as a favor; she wasn't sure how he'd react when she asked for it back< | ||
| * the walking stick knows how to hide itself better; Coyote taught it a few tricks and gave it an education< | * the walking stick knows how to hide itself better; Coyote taught it a few tricks and gave it an education< | ||
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| * maybe there were three staves that did the same thing or maybe there was only ever one walking stick; or maybe he was able to teach it to ape its brethren< | * maybe there were three staves that did the same thing or maybe there was only ever one walking stick; or maybe he was able to teach it to ape its brethren< | ||
| * Coyote hadn't fixed the walking stick entirely, or possibly at all, because it tried to hurt Adam< | * Coyote hadn't fixed the walking stick entirely, or possibly at all, because it tried to hurt Adam< | ||
| - | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Fire Touched]] | + | |
| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] | ||
| * don't give magical things to Coyote; he'd returned it and it was...different< | * don't give magical things to Coyote; he'd returned it and it was...different< | ||
| * Coyote had seen that it was becoming aware and coaxed it to free will< | * Coyote had seen that it was becoming aware and coaxed it to free will< | ||
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| ===== Donnell Greenleaf ===== | ===== Donnell Greenleaf ===== | ||
| [[Donnell Greenleaf]]\\ | [[Donnell Greenleaf]]\\ | ||
| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]] | ||
| + | * blooded the walking stick | ||
| + | * recognized the walking stick as the creation of Lugh | ||
| + | * speared the vampire with the walking stick and then called up a spell using the Death blood on the stick to blow the wall out and kill the vampire attacking Mercy with sunlight | ||
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| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] | ||
| + | * told Mercy the Lugh ever made anything that couldn' | ||
| + | * the oakman had used it to kill a vampire and it hadn't changed; maybe because it wasn't the oakman' | ||
| + | * intent and ownership are pretty powerful magic | ||
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| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] | ||
| + | * used the walking stick to kill a vampire< | ||
| + | * the walking stick was woken by the oakman< | ||
| ===== Hendrick ===== | ===== Hendrick ===== | ||
| [[Hendrick]]\\ | [[Hendrick]]\\ | ||
| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #3: [[Iron Kissed]] | ||
| + | * the walking smelled of wood smoke and pipe tobacco; it had been stolen from Hendrick' | ||
| + | * was the guardian of some of the greater fae relics< | ||
| ===== Lugh the Longarm ===== | ===== Lugh the Longarm ===== | ||
| [[Lugh the Longarm]]\\ | [[Lugh the Longarm]]\\ | ||
| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #4: [[Bone Crossed]] | ||
| * Lugh never made anything that couldn' | * Lugh never made anything that couldn' | ||
| [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] | ||
| * Lugh's artifacts acquire some semblance of self-awareness as they age; but not alter so fundamentally< | * Lugh's artifacts acquire some semblance of self-awareness as they age; but not alter so fundamentally< | ||
| * the walking stick was a thing of life, not death< | * the walking stick was a thing of life, not death< | ||
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| * not one of the great weapons< | * not one of the great weapons< | ||
| ===== Mercy Thompson ===== | ===== Mercy Thompson ===== | ||
| [[Mercy Thompson]]\\ | [[Mercy Thompson]]\\ | ||
| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #6: [[River Marked]] | ||
| + | * it was where Mercy needed it to be | ||
| + | * it didn't have feet and wasn't alive, it was old fairy magic and it trailed after Mercy like a faithful dog< | ||
| + | * an old fae artifact that attached itself to her while she was risking her neck to save a fae she knows; a friend | ||
| + | * it wasn't that Mercy was afraid of it—she didn't know what was wrong with it | ||
| + | * she failed to keep it safe; it should go to someone who would take better care of it | ||
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| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #8: [[Night Broken]] \\ | ||
| + | * it had been old and beautiful—and loyal to her as any sheepdog to its shepherd< | ||
| + | * it was left with Mercy because whenever she tried to give it back, or one of the fae tried to claim it, it returned to her< | ||
| + | * had a fae artifact follow her home; it wouldn' | ||
| + | * the last time Mercy held it she'd felt its thirst for blood, and its magic had thrummed in her bones; now the wood was cool and she felt no magic; in knows how to hide itself better< | ||
| + | * the walking stick has a lot of affection for Mercy< | ||
| + | * Mercy gave it to Beauclaire but it came back to her< | ||
| + | * from the Outtake; when Mercy was in the hospital it showed up and lay protectively beside her on the bed< | ||
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| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #9: [[Fire Touched]] | ||
| + | * when the walking choose to come to Mercy' | ||
| + | * it followed Mercy home like a stray puppy the first time, it had seemed harmless< | ||
| + | * it's usual resting place was on the top of Mercy' | ||
| + | * it moved on its own; Mercy had never managed to catch it in the process< | ||
| + | * since the walking stick had come back into her keeping, Mercy had been reading as much as she could about Lugh, who had created the walking stick< | ||
| + | * Mercy felt the walking stick' | ||
| + | * when the walking stick killed another fae his death greatly satisfied the old artifact< | ||
| + | * this time Mercy wasn't the walking stick' | ||
| + | * a dance in which the partner was more skilled than her; it would have been fun; she could feel the walking stick' | ||
| + | * the walking stick spoke to Mercy; Magic armor it told her< | ||
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| + | [[Mercy Thompson Series]] #12: [[Smoke Bitten]] | ||
| + | * Mercy' | ||
| + | * it wanted to bargain with Mercy to let it Be so that it could help her< | ||
| + | * Mercy chose to allow the walking stick to be again in order to protect Adam from Tilly< | ||
| + | * the walking stick is back again in the real world having followed Mercy both her and Adam's otherness< | ||
| ==== Mercy Claiming Pack Territory ==== | ==== Mercy Claiming Pack Territory ==== | ||
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| * the staff lit up like a lantern; red fire circled the silver ring at the bottom of the staff and raced up the bark in Celtic knots that spiraled from the bottom to the silver top that had once again lengthened to a spear and glowed as if heated in a blast furnace | * the staff lit up like a lantern; red fire circled the silver ring at the bottom of the staff and raced up the bark in Celtic knots that spiraled from the bottom to the silver top that had once again lengthened to a spear and glowed as if heated in a blast furnace | ||
| * Let the Gray Lords in their halls know that the Columbia Basin pack holds these lands and grants sanctuary to whomever we choose | * Let the Gray Lords in their halls know that the Columbia Basin pack holds these lands and grants sanctuary to whomever we choose | ||
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