- Fires in the Sky -
This astounding article came to me from leafy Tadornia, where the panel shown came attached to some kind of otherworldly artifact, which appeared out of the skies over Tador itself before plummeting to Uurth - taking out one towntree and a dozen buildings with it, though fortunately only one person, a Mr Nobby Styles, was injured - being caught in the act of relieving himself of a weight off his mind in an outside lavvy. He suffered a broken leg, damp fur, and a ruined copy of Playhamster.
Anyway...
Said artifact - when later examined amongst the ruins of the tree and partially excavated from the crater it had created for itself in the ground - was found far too bloody hot to touch, for starters. Later still, when it was sufficiently cool for various bandaged officials to look at it again, the object was described as a kind of shiny bronze and brass lump with weird sticky-out bits - dishes, spikes and shiny plates stuck all over it. Most interesting though was the inscribed brass plate shown above, riveted to the object's side, just below a dirty great dent where a bit of tree met a sticky end. The plaque depicts some unspecified species of rodent, apparent1y being tortured, together with a series of runic markings written in tongues unknown across Ankarana.
Myself and other colleagues are currently doing our best to Make a translation of the markings, but in the meanwhile the general consensus of opinion is that this is some kind of advanced inter-continental-ballistic-missile dispatched by somebody like the Viscount Antares or Maldred Plaguebringer, presumably sent to Tador as a fairly obscure and particularly mysterious warning.
Either that, or the gods have dropped a playing piece out of their Ineffable Pursuits(TM) game.
Meanwhile, if you happen to have lost a twenty-foot-long bronze and brass, red hot flying thingummy in the vicinity of Tadornia - or perhaps know of someone else who has, p1ease get in touch.