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Swordtember 2025

21. Ring

The Shape of the World - Ancient Astronomer Relic Sword

The Astronomers, as they are now called, were once a powerful group of Dwarvish folk who long ago lived in the Southern Land that they called Sud Ech. Unlike their Northern cousins who worshipped a pantheon ruled by the Mountain King and lived deep under the mountains, the Astronomers made their home on the very peaks of the mountains and worshipped the Sky Queen from their Observatory Temples.

The Astronomer’s entire civilisation was almost completely destroyed during the War of the Sea when their entire continent was sunk beneath the waves by the vengeful Sea King. All that remains of their once powerful society is a small and often opressed diaspora who eek out a living among the Mountain Dwarves of the North.

Few artefacts from the Astronomer’s heyday remain in the current age, this sword being one of them. It was likely ceremonial and contains an orrery in it’s hilt - a testament to the fact that the Astronomers understood the shape of the world better than any other civilisation - even better than the Yarerin Elves. Though modern scholars still debate this, the existence of this sword asserts that the world is in fact a Great Ring…