Misthios
The mountain has been humming for a thousand years.
Lore
A misthios was someone you hired. This one was hired once, a very long time ago, and was paid in a song instead of coin. They have carried it from ruin to ruin ever since, teaching it to olive trees and empty amphitheatres, and the mountain has learned it well enough to hum along.
How a Loop grows here
Every fren who joins appears as a note.
- A Struck Note
- Humming Stone
- Garden of Strings
- The Amphitheatre
- The Mountain That Learned The Song
The place itself
Cool, upright, listening
- Marble that should be cold is not. It holds the temperature of a hand for hours.
- The steps are worn in the middle by feet nobody can account for.
- Mist arrives from below and thins exactly at the height of the tallest column.
Noticed, not explained
- A note struck at the summit returns nine times. Residents count them and stop at eight.
- The oldest carving here is a set of instructions, and nobody can read the verbs.
How frens change here
Traits recur. What appears in a fren here has usually appeared before, in something older, and the resemblance is exact rather than approximate.
Frens go quiet. They listen more than they act, and when they do act it is after a pause long enough to be mistaken for refusal.
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