Laelaz the Walker

A long time ago, an adventurer-aesthete named Laelaz the Walker travelled the continent from North to South and from East to West in a journey that lasted twenty-two years, and recorded in a collection of poems nine sumptuous constructions made by enlightened civilisations, which brought tears to his face when he laid his eyes on them, and ten exceptional natural sites that took his breath away when he saw them. He named these places the Nine Wonders of the World and the Ten Natural Splendours respectively.
Even today, Laelaz's poems are considered to be sublime and immortal masterpieces, known throughout the world.
==== Selected Writings of Laelaz: ====
Laelaz and the Jorden:
In the frozen north he visited the Jorden people. There he met with one of the matrons of a lesser house. After being battered by Laelaz for her to tell him their most famous tales of her nation, she told him the details of a mild winter 322 years ago which was a personal favorite of hers. When Laelaz fell asleep listening, she threw him out to the cold and told him that if he wanted fantastical stories he should go to the fishermen. He did, and when the boats came in and he passed around some Farsian wine, they told him the tale of the city of thdu. A city made purely of ice that floated across the northern sea made by two brothers Feru and Gjolomon. It sank when Gjolomon betrayed Feru because of his jealousy. Feru survived however, and still lives in the city, which now lies at the center of the north. Having drunk many servings of wine and mead by this point, he found the story beautiful and declared it a masterpiece.
Laelaz and the Black Cathedral:
Oh black cathedral of silent stones,
Made real thought religious tones,
Your form unbroken by human hand,
Dark form not unmaked by timely sand.
Captured in moment like ant in amber,
Black stone creating holy chamber,
Air filled with words of law and faith,
Mortals afraid to not meet holy wraith.
Walls as far as eye can take me,
Tower rising to the sky like a tree,
Sprawling splendor, house of God.
Place of holiness untold.
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