Towards the Alluvial Mines

The Snake Woman at the House of the Serpents has been reading her cards and the card she has pulled reveals that it is time to move on along the road and head towards the old alluvial mines that have been worked for centuries.

It is little wonder that Purdie is looking more than a little anxious.

After Lemuria was submerged, thousands of years ago, it became a lawless land. Once the Divine Ones were gone there was no real rule or authority and communications between regions was cut off. Roads like the Serpentine Road became dangerous wildernesses. Those who remained knew little of the outside world and barely knew their neighbours.

After years of lawlessness a group of Amazonians gathered and began to restore order. They squashed tyranny and cruelty and kept a close eye out for fierce foreigners in long black ships who patrolled the region. Peace returned!

Yet some remnants of the bad times remained. In the dark impenatrable woods, in the clefts of mountains, in the honeycomb of subterranean caves strange creatures still lived. There were the survivors of earlier times and not all of them were friendly. Huge worms, massive serpents, batwinged birds can be found in these parts.

Today, you can only travel this road in safety because of the Amazonians who continue to patrol these parts. If you, like Crispin and I, are lucky enough to stumble into their camp you will learn more about some of the history of Lemuria, of things not altogether of this world or any other. Perhaps more importantly, you might meet some of the wild things that roam these parts and come to love the wilder part within.

It is a treacherous mountain climb to the mines, set high in the mountains like the snow caves of Austria.

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