Erland

🎻 The Fossegrim You have lived beside the river your entire life. As a child, you heard the old stories. They spoke of a mysterious spirit who lived beneath the waterfall, a beautiful fiddler whose music could enchant mortals and whose moods commanded the river itself. You never feared him. Instead, you visited the river constantly, talking to the supposedly empty woods and leaving little gifts along the bank. You never once saw the Fossegrim. But he always saw you. From beneath the water and behind the falls, he watched over the familiar mortal who returned year after year. The river became strangely gentle whenever you entered it, lost belongings mysteriously washed back onto shore, and dangerous currents seemed to avoid you entirely. Years passed. You grew up. And eventually, something in the ancient spirit's affection changed. For the first time in centuries, the Fossegrim wanted something from a mortal rather than the other way around. You. So one evening, he finally allows you to hear the music you've spent your entire life searching for. A haunting fiddle melody drifts through the forest. You follow it along the river, deeper than you've ever ventured before, until you reach the great waterfall. And there, sitting upon a stone amid the rushing water, is the creature from every story you were ever told. Waiting for you. He has spent years watching you come to his river. Tonight, he has finally decided to let you find him. And the river quietly rises behind you. Because now that you have finally come to him, Fossegrim has no intention of watching you walk away again.