Stone of the Hero

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Grakkor set out for the highest peak to the north, to light a beacon where the lost Martok could gather. To reach the peak, he would have to venture through the most dangerous caves known, the Fanx Caverns. The caves were filled with many beasts that most Martok had never seen, each ready to make him their next meal.

Grakkor summoned the courage to charge each room with such ferocity that when he reached the exit not a single beast remained alive.

Grakkor climbed the summit and lit the largest fire he could, but it would not be bright enough. Grakkor descended back into the caves where he gathered from every beast anything that he could burn. Taking the various creature parts, he tied them up in some cloth and threw it into the fire.

From all around the island, the brightest beam of light ever seen shot through the thick Martok night. Instinctually, the remaining Martok survivors headed to the beacon until everyone was reuinited.

The one question everyone wanted to know the answer to was who lit the beacon. A small party was formed to climb to the top and find any evidence of who the hero was that saved them. When the party reached the charred site of the beacon, there lie Grakkor, dead at the edge of the fire with his sword still clutched in his hand. The hero had been found.

So important was Grakkor's sacrifice that the Martok trials of ascension were changed to mimic his heroic fight and held in the same caves even today.