-A Blessing at the Paps

The Heroes came to the greatest altar of Eiritha, where they found a ceremony with dozens of priestesses already ongoing. They entered a great cavern with many pillars around its center, each pillar a representation of one of Eiritha's beasts, including ones not seen in the world since the beginning of time.

it seemed that most priestesses present were High Llama tribeswomen. Several different priestesses demanded answers:

Where is the thing you seek?

Which of us is the greatest mother?

Will I Am answered "She who has suffered the most for her goddess is the greatest here."

How shall you take what you want and we get what we want?

The situation seemed politically as well as magically charged, and when the Highest priestess granted Will the right to retrieve the string, several priestesses in the crowd released spirits or worse things to fight the Heroes.

Oshun faced a Copper Spear spirit, which he defeated quickly and took as his own.

Garusharp faced a strange snake with a human head, whose beating black heart shone through its chest.
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