House of the Rising Phoenix - The Arkati Volumes
The Leya Quest
The Leya Quest Index - Visions and Blessings
Below you will find the collected stories of the visions and blessings that have been seen and received by some of the Leya Questors. Many of the items spoken of are still in their owner's possession, although some have been lost due to departure from the lands, handed down to relatives, or even outright sold merely for coin and profit. No true acolyte of Leya will ever sell you an artifact from the Quest, or blessed by our Lady. If you are being offered such an item for purchase you can send me an escroll and I will verify it's authenticity. If you believe that you have had a vision of the Lady Leya or have received her blessing and would like to be included on this list, you need to send a log or screen capture of the event to Lady Deavon Laeren. All reported visions/blessings will be verified with the Greater Gods.
The first time we went to Kai's Shrine and communed with what we believe to be Leya's handservant, a pendant appeared at Lady Myste's feet. It was a shining dagger attached to a crystal chain, which, though possessing no magical properties, did often pulse and speak to her, drawing her back to Kai's Shrine, until the day the pulse grew weak and it crumbled.
"The second time I communed for those present to speak to the goddess Leya, I was again bathed in a loving light, and later discovered Leya had graciously marked my backpack with her symbol - it had been stitched with silver spidersilk in the pattern of a glowing dagger."
"After Miriweather's second visit with the Questors, we went to Kai's Shrine to pray and pay our respects to Leya. During that time I was holding a short dirty dagger in my hand that once belonged to Groggle. After I left Kai's Shrine and was on my way to Twees, I discovered that my short dirty dagger was now a shining dagger with intricate arachic sigils etched into the blade"
"One afternoon while at Hearthstone Manor replacing a deed, I felt a wave of vertigo pass over me. I received my deed, went outside, and felt very dizzy. I then fell in a deep faint (I was physically stunned, as well). I saw a vision of a young woman, beckoning to me. My fiance, Lord Ruup, who was with me, unstunned me. I smiled at the young woman, whom Lord Ruup did not see. "I told Ruup that I felt we needed to go to Kai's shrine, and the young woman and my dizziness disappeared. We went to the shrine and prayed. We were both gifted with better insight into ourselves, but nothing else occurred. Ruup has also now pledged himself to Leya's Quest, seeing the power that she wields and my devotion to her. I am not sure who the young woman was... I'd like to believe it was Leya."
"While hunting in wind wraiths on Teras Isle last night, I became dizzy and then was stunned. Through the fog of my stun, I saw a young girl smiling at me. She then faded into the fog, whereupon I was left with the vision of a ghostly centaur. A red centaur then appeared and chased away the wraiths, pawed the ground, neighed an echoing neigh, and then leapt into the air and disappeared."
"I had a similar vision while at Leya's Shrine. There was a centaur hide lying before the altar, and the hide started to glow, then stood up - reincarnating the centaur. The centaur pawed the ground and ran off. Through a fog I saw a young woman beckoning to me. I was physically stunned into a trance. Then the vision faded and the fog of dizziness left me"
"Then, almost a fortnight later, I was again visiting the shrine, with Remeck and Griftan, and I knelt to pray to Leya and told her of all the deeds that we had been doing. When it came time to leave, I readied my shield and found that it had changed from a blood red shield to a blood red shield crossed with hammered vaalin engraved into a motif of repeated daggers."
"One night soon following the Quest's first vision, some of us returned to Kai's Shrine give our devotion to Leya. Having knelt and prayed, we received a message to look to the forests to find the shrine. As we prepared to go, I slid my shield off my shoulder and noticed that it was somewhat different. Examining it closely I found it to now be a black vultite shield fire-branded with the image of a glowing dagger"
(Katt has since reported seeing Leya while training at the Warrior Guild, encouraging her to continue to grow and attain her goals.)
"As we left Kai's Shrine the night that it reopened, having prayed to Leya and given her our devotion and thanks, I felt an inclination to touch my white Leya medallion - a gift given to me by Lady Kali. As I reached up to my neck to touch it, I felt it change. It now sparkled and was inset with a tear-shaped pearl. "I cried with joy that Leya had sought to bless me, but I was curious - all the others had all received a dagger ornamentation, or had daggers altered. Why did I have a tear? I found part of the answer when we discovered Leya's Shrine. From the dome of the shrine water falls like tears into the pool below."
"Lady Shadowkatt was attempting to charge some items in The Reach one night recently. It was getting late and had taken longer than she had thought it would, when she attempted to exit by the water tunnels. Two hours later she was still trapped, wet, tired and in despair. Our good friend, Lord Baleford, and I had been waiting on the outside by Lake Eonak, asking every person wandering by or who escaped from The Reach for directions out, but to no avail. Finally, I was struck with an idea and here is what happened:
"I would like to pray to Leya, she is the one who cares for Katt," I told Baleford. "Then do so," he replied. Removing a single yellow rose from my cloak, I knelt down and began to pray. "My Lady Leya, I pray to you today of a small thing, but for one you care for. I offer you this rose as an offering... it was given to me by Shadowkatt." Dropping the rose, I continued. "Shadowkatt is special to you and I, and she is now trapped and needs your guidance. She knows nothing of my prayer to you now. I ask that perhaps you could look in on her, and give her the guidance she needs. My Lady Leya, please answer my prayer, and speak to the one you love." I waited, and upon receiving no reply or sign from our Lady, I sighed heavily. "I do not think she is listening to such a foolish request," I told Baleford. Dejectedly, I picked up the rose, "I do not know what else to do, that was all that I had in my power to try." Gazing up into the heavens, I spoke, "Thank you for hearing my prayers, Leya, even when you choose not to answer." As I rose, fearing that Katt might spend the night sleeping in the water tunnels, she suddenly came spurting out of of the gushing waterfall and splashed into the lake. After several agonizing moments she was thrust by the currents into knee-deep water nearby. After much celebrated relief and hugs and kisses of reunion, we headed back to town. Showing Katt the rose I said, "I tried it as an offering," then placed it back in my cloak. As we entered the gates and made our way home, a warm glow emanated from my cloak for a moment. Puzzled, I searched only to find the rose now missing. Quickly I knelt in a prayer of thanks, knowing my Lady had accepted my offering. Rising, we continued our round of well-wishes and good-nights, when something seemed to move in my cloak for a moment, then was gone. Once again I peered in, only to gasp as I removed a shining golden rose from inside. Now wide awake, Katt and I decided to trek to Leya's Shrine, and it was there we prayed once more to our Lady and bid adieu for the night.
"I arrived at the meeting late and I was glad to see all the fine ladies gathered around the storyteller Miriweather, and myself, oddly being the only male of the group, until Lord Ruup came along later. We started off and went to Kai's shrine in search of clues to the location of Leya's Shrine. Again Myste communed and we discovered a few valuable answers that later helped us reach her shrine, and as I got up to leave my armor was anew and blazed with a glowing dagger over my right shoulder. I marveled at the beauty of the mark! Days went by and we continued the Quest for the shrine and as the days went by, in an odd experiment the armor was destroyed by dark magics that cursed it and it was lost.
Knowing the loss I felt for losing the armor, and in my eyes, Leya's favor, my fellow questors allowed me to lead the group and again Leya sent us visions. Somehow I managed to decipher them with the groups help, although we didn't agree on everything we finally reached Leya's Shrine together and spent hours exploring and marveling over its beauty. As we sat near the pool next to Soulingen, a single trillium blossom appeared near the altar. For my efforts and the loss of my goddess' marking, I was given the blossom and to this day many years afterwards I still carry it with me at all times. It has never wilted or dulled in beauty and I will treasure it always. I still sometimes doubt myself and go to Leya's shrine for guidance. That may just be man's doubts in ourselves, but whenever I meditate at her shrine I feel relieved and continue onward.
...I will never leave these lands for they are my home and the gods we choose or are chosen by always watch us.
"Standing outside the Shrine after having prayed with the other Leya followers one night, I began to prepare for the journey back to the Landing. I slung my shield from off my shoulder as I bade my friends goodbye, then -- almost as an afterthought, I decided to arm myself. Upon withdrawing my heavy vultite falchion from its sheath, I discovered that I had been blessed by Leya, for the hilt of my falchion had been changed and incised with blood-red dagger sigils surrounded by lightning. Not only had I been blessed by the Goddess I had chosen to follow... my decision to become a warrior had also been reinforced when Leya altered, of all things, my falchion."
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The Leya Quest content within this section is used by the gracious permission of Dame Deavon Laeren and is © 1997 Marsha H. Levine.Permission to use/reprint must be obtained from Dame Deavon and attributed to the (GemStone III) Leya Quest.
