Chapter 85 One-Eyed Joan
The spirit of El Minsur appeared in front of Joan again, leading him home like a fluttering lantern.
Joan followed the spirit in the darkness. He didn't know how far he had traveled. The road finally came to an end, and what appeared in front of him was a faintly glowing tree hole.
Without hesitation, Joan got into the tree hole and teleported surrounded by the magic vortex. His eyes were in a trance, and his body fell lightly. When he came back to his senses, he found that he had returned to the ash forest in Powhatan Village. Under the shade of Irmin Sur, the fiery red sunset shines on my body through the branches and leaves, making me feel warm and comfortable.
"Joan!" Candy rushed over with tears in his eyes, hugged him tightly and refused to let go, as if he was afraid that he would turn into bubbles and disappear out of thin air, "Thank you, Mother Nature! You are finally back!"
A warm current gushed out of Qiao An's heart, it turned out that this is what it feels like to be missed...
Kandy looked at Joan carefully, his eyes widened suddenly, and his voice trembled uncontrollably: "Your right eye..."
Joan touched her right eye, which was no longer able to see, and told her calmly: "Now I only have two eyes."
Conti didn't find the joke funny at all, sobbed and asked him, "Did that bad goblin hurt your right eye?"
Qiao Anzheng was worried that he couldn't explain it, so he simply pushed the boat along and pinned the blame on the soul-stealing spirit. Anyway, that guy wouldn't be able to survive and defend himself.
"Well, I killed it in the end, and it was worth the sacrifice." Joan was still not used to lying, he hesitated to speak a few words, her fair cheeks flushed.
Matoka and Victor came over, and the couple looked carefully around Joan, and when they saw the clotted blood on his face, they both showed expressions of intolerance and sympathy.
"Poor child, it's all my fault. If we hadn't brought you to Powhatan Village, you wouldn't have lost...you wouldn't have suffered this." Matoka hugged Joan, sobbing choked up.
Joan was both moved and ashamed. I really couldn't bear to lie to the Kandy family who really cared about me, so I could only say lightly: "I really don't care, it doesn't hurt anymore..."
Victor patted his wife on the shoulder to comfort her to calm down, and asked Joan softly what happened after falling into the tree hole.
"After entering the tree hole, I was teleported to a strange place, where I fought against the soul stealer, and after killing that evil fairy, I tried to find my way back..." Joan couldn't make it up anymore, so he had to Diverting the subject by himself, "Conti, what time is it, how long have I been away?"
"It's almost dusk, from the time you entered the tree hole to the time you returned...almost three hours have passed."
"Only three hours? But I clearly remember... I have been staying opposite the tree hole for several days." Joan shook her head in disbelief. Counting the time when he was hanged upside down from the root of a tree in Irminsur, it took nine days and nine nights. How could it be possible that only three hours had passed?
"I can answer this question." Victor touched Joan's head with a gentle expression, "The place you just went to is called 'Fairy Wilderness', and the time there is not completely synchronized with the world we live in."
Fairy Wilderness is a plane that is parallel to and closely connected to the material plane. The two occupy the same spatial dimension, but are independent of each other, like the front and back of the same picture.
The landscape of Feywild is a mirror image of the physical world, while at the same time greatly magnifying its characteristic forms. A volcano towering on the Material Plane, in the Feywild is a towering crystal mountain with towering flames shining inside. A spacious, murky river on the Material Plane may be reflected as a sinuous stream of exceptional beauty and clarity. A wetland may be reflected as a large, menacing black quagmire. When travelers enter Feywild from the old ruins of the Material Plane, they are likely to end up at the gates of some ancient fey castle.
It is said that the Goblinmoor is divided and ruled by two royal courts led by queens, and most fey are loyal to one of them. Queen Titania and her "Summer Court" lead the "Joy Fairies", while the Queen of Darkness rules the "Twilight Court" and governs the "Sad Fairies" under her. The Court of Joy and the Court of Wrath are not directly related to good and evil, although many directly regard them as equals. There are many good Leprechauns of Joy, and many evil Feymen of Sadness, but the opposition between them is due to the jealousy of their queens rather than a purely moral standpoint. The hideous inhabitants of Goblinmoor, such as the hags, almost never belong to any court. The two royal courts sometimes waged wars, but they also competed in relatively friendly ways, sometimes even forming alliances in subtle ways.
Joan entered the "Fairy Wilderness" through the tree hole in Irmin Sur. There are still some such teleportation passages in the depths of the jungle in Alfheim, but they are very hidden and difficult to find. These portals leading to the Fairy Wilderness are collectively called "Fairy Passages", which are mysterious nodes connecting the Fairy Wilderness and the material plane. Sometimes a traveler passes through a goblin passage when he enters a glade, steps into a pond, steps into a mushroom ring, or enters a tree trunk. From the traveler's point of view, he has just stepped into the fairy wilderness. Other observers would simply see the traveler disappear at that moment.
As for the time that Joan experienced during his stay in the Fairy Wilderness seemed to be longer than the time elapsed in the real world, Victor also gave a reasonable explanation based on his own knowledge.
"When a traveler wanders into the Goblin Wild by accident, he can realize that he has passed day after day and time passes normally. However, when he leaves the Goblin Wild and returns to the world he was in, he will find that time has passed. More or less in the past, just take the Vales world we live in, time flows faster than the Fairy Wilderness, so you wandered in the Fairy Wilderness for several days, but when you return to the village, you find that only three short periods of time have passed. It's only an hour."
PS. Related settings of the fifth edition of "Dungeon and Dragon" about the Fairy Wilderness
· Memory Loss Memory Loss
Those who leave the Feywild must succeed on a Wisdom check (DC 10). Those who fail the save lose all memory of their stay in the Feywild. Those who succeed on the saving throw retain the memory but have a hazy impression. Any spell that removes the curse restores the creature's lost memory. Fey creatures automatically succeed on this save.
·Time warp TimeWarp
Time passes normally in Feywild, and players are able to realize that they have passed the day after day, but when they leave the plane, they will find that more or less time has passed elsewhere in the multiverse. Time flows faster on the Material Plane than on the Feywild. A wish spell negates this time effect.
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