The swirl of teleportation lines fused the forms together of twenty or so people standing atop a cliff. Beside them was a road leading from the northwest and down into the canyon. Most was barren with spots of desert like shrubbery, cactus and small patches of desert grass... except for the center of the canyon about a mile or so up ahead.
In the center of the canyon, which dropped nearly a thousand feet in altitude, lay the one spot of abundant and luscious life, a place known as Corellon's Sanctuary. The place was about a half mile across in the shape of a circle, the outer edge seemed to have a hedge of a forest surrounding it. Inside the circle of trees was another circle, a clearing with shorter foiliage in the shape of a crescent moon, a small stream that looped around the outside and circled round the crescent to one side of the smaller circle where the land dropped with a waterfall into the center, a formation that with the crescent shape made up the shape of a moon.
It all looked like a moon with a crescent in the middle of a small forest ring.
"We can't transport into the forest. We get interference from the compounds in the ground around it. Here's as close as we get." the team leader informed the headmaster and Jalek.
The walk to the sanctuary was not too difficult, gentle slopes to the road had been carefully constructed. The road did not go through the middle of the forest area as it looked like it should've. It went around the southern half to the other side and kept going southeast. From the road was a small trail that they walked, a path made by deer.
Getting through the forest, they came to the clearing, but instead of following the stream, as the path did, they followed the edge of the clearing all the way around until they came to a point where the land shifted down again at a gentle slope. At the top of the slope were hedges that kept one from taking a direct route. Where the hedges ended were clearly a place where the land dropped with a sheer cliff. They could see the stream leading to the center of that cliff and down a waterfall into the land below.
The land below formed a circle. Around part of that circle was the cliff formation and the clearing that formed a crescent around the lower land. From above, it viewed as Corellon's Symbol, a crescent moon. The greenery of Corellon's Sanctuary was a stark difference to the surrounding desert like canyon.
As they moved along the hedge, they came to an actual wooden wall with a double set of doors. Stepping through them, they could look directly across and see they were still level with the waterfall while the land sloped gently downward to a pool at the bottom of the waterfall... rows of fallen logs carved as benches lined in a semicircle before the pool. Between the pool and benches was an alter atop a short dias sculpted out of dark blue marble with golden veins. Magical ruins and enscriptions adorned the alter, most notably the symbol of Corellon.
In the center of the canyon, which dropped nearly a thousand feet in altitude, lay the one spot of abundant and luscious life, a place known as Corellon's Sanctuary. The place was about a half mile across in the shape of a circle, the outer edge seemed to have a hedge of a forest surrounding it. Inside the circle of trees was another circle, a clearing with shorter foiliage in the shape of a crescent moon, a small stream that looped around the outside and circled round the crescent to one side of the smaller circle where the land dropped with a waterfall into the center, a formation that with the crescent shape made up the shape of a moon.
It all looked like a moon with a crescent in the middle of a small forest ring.
"We can't transport into the forest. We get interference from the compounds in the ground around it. Here's as close as we get." the team leader informed the headmaster and Jalek.
The walk to the sanctuary was not too difficult, gentle slopes to the road had been carefully constructed. The road did not go through the middle of the forest area as it looked like it should've. It went around the southern half to the other side and kept going southeast. From the road was a small trail that they walked, a path made by deer.
Getting through the forest, they came to the clearing, but instead of following the stream, as the path did, they followed the edge of the clearing all the way around until they came to a point where the land shifted down again at a gentle slope. At the top of the slope were hedges that kept one from taking a direct route. Where the hedges ended were clearly a place where the land dropped with a sheer cliff. They could see the stream leading to the center of that cliff and down a waterfall into the land below.
The land below formed a circle. Around part of that circle was the cliff formation and the clearing that formed a crescent around the lower land. From above, it viewed as Corellon's Symbol, a crescent moon. The greenery of Corellon's Sanctuary was a stark difference to the surrounding desert like canyon.
As they moved along the hedge, they came to an actual wooden wall with a double set of doors. Stepping through them, they could look directly across and see they were still level with the waterfall while the land sloped gently downward to a pool at the bottom of the waterfall... rows of fallen logs carved as benches lined in a semicircle before the pool. Between the pool and benches was an alter atop a short dias sculpted out of dark blue marble with golden veins. Magical ruins and enscriptions adorned the alter, most notably the symbol of Corellon.