Ker carefully inspects the steep-banked gorge walls and the evidence of a mighty flood is even more pronounced along this narrow stream than it is near the pool and other fork. You walk about 50 paces around the bend and the trail you are on completely gives way - a section perhaps 100 feet long has slid into the raging rapids below (at least 30 feet below). In the side of the hill where the land has moved, you can make out a some tumbled masonry jutting out of the muddy bank and a small hole about 2 to 3 feet wide in the middle of these disturbed stones. This hole is precariously perched at least fifteen or twenty feet from where you are standing and there is no easy way to get to it - a treeless and very steep hill rises above and below at probably 50 or 60 degrees.
The tomb is different to the burial practices of the Kelts, who typically lay the dead to rest in pools and lakes, but you've seen ancient Pictish tombs in the forests near Kaer Eanyn. Just as Brule indicated, the large stone seal blocking the entrance must weigh tons and would have taken an enormous amount of effort to get it into place. The pictographs adorning this seal are not known to you.
Marcán carefully examines the scene on the tomb. Although weathered by age and some apparent defacement, the pictographs on the seal feature a stylized scene in bas relief: Three attendants in long robes can be seen standing outside a tomb with their arms cocked back over their head. In each of the figure's hand is an object. One looks like a stylized coin, another holds a stylized gemstone, and the last holds a torc (a decorative neck collar worn by Celts in our own antiquity). Underneath the three men is a watery surface with an outstretched hand rising from the depths.
Brule shakes his head. "I apologize for my reaction. Truth be told I know you are a sorcerer . . . I was worried you intended to break the seal with your magic. As for water, I do not think so; the damp would quickly spoil a body. I know not what my ancestors did for Ulfheonar, but if this tomb is like any other noble tomb, then it will be lined with chalk and built to preserve the remains and any grave goods for the journey to Otherworld."
