{"id":1350,"date":"2013-08-23T20:35:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T20:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2016-01-28T17:03:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T17:03:31","slug":"the-boast-of-white-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"The Boast of White Eye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cBoast of White Eye\u201d, as it is called by the magi of Setheria Isle, was found by the Magus Oahkill when a quest led him to the Ice Isles of northern Findor, some one hundred years ago. His written account of the journey contains the following passage. He first saw the sign of a simple spell, and investigated. His eldritch sight deciphered secret wizard-writing sorcerously scrawled across an iced-over engraving of the royal family of dwarves who had built the towers here so long ago.<\/p>\n<div><strong>I have slumbered through millennia<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>waited at the bottom of the sea<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>and passed through astral voids<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>undreamed of<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>while the spires of sons<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>rose upon the dust of their fathers<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>through your ages of heat and sun<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>until I was naught but the last spark<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>of cold in the dark<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>but now the cycle turns again<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>and the new age of ice has begun<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>and yes again<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>shall my glacial weight<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>scour all the faces of the world<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>clean and white, free as bones<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>of the flesh of your race\u2019s delight<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>the waning sun<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>marks my counting<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>with flares and gutters<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>until my reign<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>freezes time<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><strong>I am the white eye<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>I shall consume life<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cBoast of White Eye\u201d, as it is called by the magi of Setheria Isle, was found by the Magus Oahkill when a quest led him to the Ice Isles of northern Findor, some one hundred years ago. His written account of the journey contains the following passage. He first saw the sign of a simple spell, and investigated. His eldritch sight deciphered secret wizard-writing sorcerously scrawled across an iced-over engraving of the royal family of dwarves who had built the towers here so long ago. I have slumbered through millennia waited at the bottom of the sea and passed through astral voids undreamed of while the spires of sons rose upon the dust of their fathers through your ages of heat and sun until I was naught but the last spark of cold in the dark but now the cycle turns again and the new age of ice has begun and yes again shall my glacial weight scour all the faces of the world clean and white, free as bones of the flesh of your race\u2019s delight the waning sun marks my counting with flares and gutters until my reign freezes time I am the white eye I shall consume life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1351,"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unicornrampant.com\/newccb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}