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>Traveling at night sucks.
Yeah, you wouldn't be able to see anything, and you'd probably be tripping over monsters and bandits all the time or something. You go ahead and stop at a local tavern/hotel. You know the kind of place, you can eat plenty at night, and they'll give you a room overnight. This place, the Motel VI, seems the nicest for a while around. Must be owned by some woman named Vi.
The place seems fairly nice and calm. A group of rowdy men drinking in the corner, a few tables with people drinking alone or at the bar, a bard singing over in the corner.
Allright stop, Collaborate and listen
I'm back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Flow like a harpoon daily and nightly
And so on. You think bards are kiiind of bullshit. Why should they get magic just because they can sing well? Their magic is kind of shitty compared to real magic like you use, but it's still a crock of shit that they can use magic without having to work much for it.
You get a room for you and Gunther for forty Bucks, which also gets you a couple rounds of free drinks.
You order yourself a cool, frothy, amber mug of milk. Gunther has water.
You sit down at a table and read that book on the Red Moon and study your maps while Gunther eats his logs. He says he's saving most of them for tomorrow. First, the book.
The skull crawls out of your pocket and onto the table to read with you.
This book was published by Bedoua, and has a short "the known facts" section in the front.
The Red Moon is a type of Lunar eclipse, caused by a combination of factors.
The typical lunar eclipse happens once every two and a half years, roughly. This is a typical event, and does nothing other than make the moon look a golden orange-red. Exactly why this happens is currently unknown, but expert Bedouan astronomers are researching this, and an answer is expected within a short amount of time. The current working theory is that it has something to do with the linear alignment of the sun, our planet, and the moon, but this is unconfirmed.
The Red Moon is a phenomena that happens once every two thousand, five hundred years, roughly. Our astronomers theorize that this is much like a typical eclipse, but involves a fourth planetary body. Current observation marks it as an enormous, red, storm-covered planetoid that dwarfs our own. Some theorize that the entire thing may be an enormous storm rotating around the sun, but this is obviously unconfirmed.
The Red Moon is theorized to occur when this planetoid is between our own and the sun, while conditions for a total lunar eclipse are being met locally. This paints the moon as a deep, dark red color, which in turn reflects red light onto us.
While this event is obviously solely a solar coincidence and has no power in its own right, the fact that the last Red Moon took place on the night the Blight that affects the northern lands appeared has given the event a nearly worldwide perception of it leading to death, ruin, destruction, or other kinds of generally bad changes.
After the "facts" section, there are a whole bunch of chapters, all of which have a title that basically means "magic bullshit" or "dumbass superstitions" said in much nicer words.
There are a few common prophecies about the thing. You skim it for ones involving princesses that appear more than once, and actually get two that seem to appear in tons of societies worldwide, even ones that have never contacted one another.
The first is that whoever kills a "Fair maid of noble blood" in full light of the moon will be granted nigh-on eternal life.
The other is that should a princess (It actually uses the word in a lot of these) be slain on the night of the Red Moon, magic as we know it would unravel and cease to exist.
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