on craggy Iylianna

There is a formation high up on a crag that we call Iylianna (i.e. Crone or Hag) – it looks like the face of a shriveled old witch who'd beat back her neighbors with broom pot and switch. She vanished from view many long years ago, her body was not found (to where did she go?), her legend lives on in a lofty rock-face, in that inaccessible mountainous place. To see it go climb to the top of a spire and make sure the view isn't cloudy or mired by surrounding buildings or smog or darkness then turn you your body to point to the west. From Grig it is visible, it will delight, its contours do make a most impressive sight, so go now and look for it, it's trouble worth, to see Iylianna in her stony berth.

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