Story entry 10 - Triplet Stars

What a sensitive and difficult year things have been for the suvians. Their relationship with the grootslang and the yaoguai of the Inmost had become strained and quite fragile in the last year. The counsel decided that their usual year-end gift of the best of their morel crop was not enough. Perhaps it was fate or perhaps it was bad judgement, but the wisest of the counsel appointed the task, of choosing the three best morels, to the triplets. Their assumption was partially based on the correlation between there being three of them and choosing to offer three mushrooms.
The counsel scrambled to remedy the disaster created by the triplets Wyn, Wul, and Woo, but there was no magic that could remedy their mistake. The gift had been placed and the damage had been done. The tradition of this offering had dated back thousands of years, even inspiring the vikings to offer up an evergreen to the sun god Balder and pagans and Christians to decorate a tree. All in one simple mistake, the relationship that balanced on the edge, would plummet into the void.

The intent of the yearly gift is to show respect to the keepers of the Inmost and provide them with the prize of the morel crop from that season - marked with a traditional red (indicating prosperity) star at it’s top. To show even more respect in times of their fragile and crumbling relationship, they would offer their best three morels. The triplets made two additional stars and restored the original star as well so they would have three this year. They used a natural red dye from the pedals of the vampire flower and that was their undoing. The dye poisoned the prized mushrooms and created a decomposed mess.

The insult to the grootslang and yaoguai was extreme and now their good graces had been undone. Things were not looking good for the suvians. Conflict would be upon them and they did not do well with contention.

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