Evershift Ring
Not much is known about this strange ring of stones, precious gems with strange runic symbols carved upon them. The ring appears as suddenly as it fades, sometimes having brought objects, sometimes taking them away. Rarely, it has brought or even sent away people. No one truly knows what is on the other side, nor how it activates or where it will show up. However it is always heralded by harsh weather, sudden extreme behaviors. Tremors in the ground, shrieking winds, lashing rains.
Documented cases have occurred of people, disoriented, confused, speaking in tongues and dressed in the oddest fashions appearing with the Ring. They do not speak a language recognizable and though they sometimes are of a form like peoples of the world we know, there is always something just a little bit off. Always something just not quite right. These lost individuals historically do not last long, though they were often shunned out of fear of the unknown. But academic curiosity has prevailed, but a year ago another individual appeared, a youngling, one recognizable as human, though something about him was just not quite right. Perhaps it was his garb, strange, like something from the ancient past. Perhaps it was the markings upon his left arm, seemingly glowing and crackling upon his arrival. Whatever it was, he has not been shunned this time and in fact has been taken under the wing here at the Institute by my own professor of the esoterics.
He appeared on the campus in fact, as we were studying a variety of odd plant specimens in the greenhouses. A strange experience. We are attempting to teach him our tongue, and to hopefully, eventually understand his story. He speaks of strange things, of being not from just a different time, but perhaps, if the limited grasp of our language, and us his, has allowed us to translate and comprehend each other effectively, another world or reality? It is a great strangeness and oddity indeed, one we are not sure what to make of.
Documented cases have occurred of people, disoriented, confused, speaking in tongues and dressed in the oddest fashions appearing with the Ring. They do not speak a language recognizable and though they sometimes are of a form like peoples of the world we know, there is always something just a little bit off. Always something just not quite right. These lost individuals historically do not last long, though they were often shunned out of fear of the unknown. But academic curiosity has prevailed, but a year ago another individual appeared, a youngling, one recognizable as human, though something about him was just not quite right. Perhaps it was his garb, strange, like something from the ancient past. Perhaps it was the markings upon his left arm, seemingly glowing and crackling upon his arrival. Whatever it was, he has not been shunned this time and in fact has been taken under the wing here at the Institute by my own professor of the esoterics.
He appeared on the campus in fact, as we were studying a variety of odd plant specimens in the greenhouses. A strange experience. We are attempting to teach him our tongue, and to hopefully, eventually understand his story. He speaks of strange things, of being not from just a different time, but perhaps, if the limited grasp of our language, and us his, has allowed us to translate and comprehend each other effectively, another world or reality? It is a great strangeness and oddity indeed, one we are not sure what to make of.
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