A Letterbox Hybrid that is NOT hidden at the posted coordindates. The posted coordinates are the location of the faint trail to follow WSW to the rocky monolith where the letterbox is located. Park at parking location, then follow ATV trails to the posted coordinates. Project a bearing of 275 degrees for 0.14 miles, or just following the faint trail south then west until you see the obvious hiding place. In addition to the normal logbook and trade items, it also contains a letterbox stamp, inkpad, and stamp book. Please do not remove the stamp, ink pad, or stamp book. THEY ARE NOT TRADE ITEMS!
This letterbox replaces the archived Binding the Destroyer. It is no longer a bonus cache, but is standalone. Terrain is 2/5 until the last few feet which require some balancing on rocks. The text below is from the original.
"I’ll sing you a song of the long ago - Seven shine the shiners, oh!
What did the Seven do way back when? Why, they wove the Charter then!
Five for the warp, from beginning to end.
Two for the woof, to make and mend.
That’s the Seven, but what of the Nine-
What of the two who chose not to shine?
The Eighth did hide, hide all away,
But the Seven caught him and made him pay.
The Ninth was strong and fought with might,
But lone Orannis was put out of the light,
Broken in two and buried under hill,
Forever to lie there, wishing us ill."
-Lirael pp. 525-526.
Orannis, also known as the Destroyer, is the most powerful of the Nine Bright Shiners. After destroying countless other worlds, the seven (Ranna, Mosrael, Kibeth, Dyrim, Belgaer, Saraneth, and Astarael) combined together to bind Orannis as two halves of a silver sphere, buried beneath wards of Silver, Gold, Lead, Rowan, Ash, Oak and Bone. Yrael abstained from this, and was thus forced to serve the Abhorsen line as the bound free magic creature Mogget.
When Orannis rose again, it took 8 remnants of the original Nine to bind him anew. This binding was as follows:
thinker, binder, weeper, runner, sleeper, waker, walker, and speaker.
This is a letterbox hybrid. In addition to the normal logbook and trade items, it also contains a letterbox stamp, inkpad, and stamp book. Please do not remove the stamp, ink pad, or stamp book. THEY ARE NOT TRADE ITEMS!