Blood Stele

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Blood Stele is a stone inscribed with the prophecies regarding Hygelic's Heirs.

History

According to the legend, the stele was created in A.Y. 6522, in the year when Hygelic Jusenkyou's egg was placed in High Mountain Flight's rookery. Accounts vary wildly as to the size and nature of the stele. Most accounts list it as having been written in Scoriography, and specifically in the spoken tongue of the dragons(most scoriographic inscriptions are actually written in Common, which is also the language of draconic politics).

The earliest mention in human literature is in the Chronicles of Shri Antiok, a poet active in the mid Sixth Age, who is also said to have recorded most of the prophecies. He said he was shown the stone by Hrethrel's own hand and that he wrote down what he saw as best he could. Since Antiok was a poet and not an historian, his accounts are often dismissed. Later speculation on the tablet mostly wrote Antiok out of the story entirely, because it was revealed he had lived his whole life in