From Where The Gods Watch

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If YOU read this, it's probably too late for you too. The cave drained us of any energy we had. The professor collapsed and he is barely breathing. It looks like the Jotuns were right, the serpent eats the souls of mortals. If you have the smallest faint of life in you take our notes and head for the exit of the cave as soon as possible.

Day I

Professor Hassen told me that we should make another trip to Fjialtindr. As an apprentice, my opinion matters little to him. He said this time we will find out what happened to the Jotuns.

Day II

On our way to the great crown of the realm, the professor insisted on telling me the old legends of the Jotuns: Horned giants that walked this lands and worshiped the serpent god, how they disappeared without a trace and how they left behind only great monuments and stone bridges that still decorate the forests of Fjialtindr.

Day III

We did found something new. A monolith depicting the Jotuns and by new I mean something that isn't scribbled down in Hassen's book. They all looked the same to me.

Later that day Hassen said this monolith was the key. The Jotuns went on a pilgrimage to a cave called Serpent's Jaw.

Day V

I insisted to go back. The cold became unbearable as we went up the mountain. This was a fool's errand.

It was real! By the gods it was real! The cave existed. It was wide enough for an army to pass through and the cave ceiling was even higher. It was full of engravings from the Jotuns who wanted to pass down their wisdom.

Both me and Hassen agreed to camp by the entrance for some time to note down and translate what we could

Day VII

The transcriptions were anything between how to skin a bear to the ancient knowledge of stars and gods. They thought that the mountain is the serpent itself, that it coiled and waited still for the end of times when he could feast on the souls of mortals. Reading those engravings sent chills down my spine.

Day VIII

We had to go deeper into the cave. We had to know how the Jotuns disappeared. Now I knew for sure they were real.

The cave went on forever. We could not see the light behind us and no light in front either. We had torches to walk on for hours. It's getting hard to write under dim light

This is it for us

The Jotuns live