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A common superstition in the west is that of the falling star: if one traces the path of a falling star through the night sky and can reach its projected landing place before the Sun breaks the southern horizon, they will there find a fabulous prize. However, precisely of what this prize is purported to consist varies from region to region—an immense cache of riches; a wish-granting old woman; in Daiqu Vand, the Impermanent City, parties are sent out weekly to chase the stars, certain that their efforts will ultimately see the (perhaps supernatural) restoration of the great razed monument over which their community holds an endless vigil.
This superstition, while ubiquitous today throughout the Western Waste, is in fact sylph in origin, and believed to have passed into Erj’s common folklore by way of Ras Aeos, given that city’s remarkably high population of sylph in an otherwise erjan settlement. As the sylph tell the story, the fallen star is in fact not a star at all, but a vehicle, sent by Ybris herself, to ferry they who made the journey back to the Sky Beyond the Sky.