River’s Rest Museum/West Room Stand
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A delicate maoral stand
On the delicate maoral stand you see a sand timer.
The River's Rest Museum encourages all visitors to enjoy the exhibits. Bards are requested to handle items carefully and return items to the proper places when finished.
A sand timer
This item has a loresong. If a bard sings to this sand timer, it serves as a cautionary tale to it’s singer.
A closer look
This is a simple sand timer. It's small enough to fit into a belt pouch and sturdy enough to be carried around without fear of breaking. Yet the glass is cracked and there is no sand left inside.
Official documentation
Attached to the timer is a small tag stating, "During the last years of 4200 M.E. and the first years of 4300 a style of improvisational poetry competition known as 'mosha-ereh' (being in company of poetry) became popular among the educated classes along the southern coastal communities of Elanthia. A poet was given a topic, the timer turned and the poet was expected to extemporize on that topic before the sand ran out."
"This sand timer belonged to the poet Hakim Kharadh, who gained a wide reputation before his mysterious murder in 4292 M.E. Depending on the grain of sand used, Hakim's timer is thought to have been a two minute model."
