Note to players: description acceptable. After returning from this place, a character watches an object “wilt into gory icicles” in a passage that concludes “He who wields power over time and tide: He is the true Lord.” The “burning waters” surrounding this place inspired a later author’s description of “tricksy lights” in the Dead Marshes. A group traveling to this place encounters an old man’s severed head (15[1])under a (15[1])cliff. A man (15[1])takes a (-5[1])hilt from this place after he beheads a corpse, whose blood melts a (*) sword (10[1])“from the days of (10[1])the (10[1])giants.” A (10[2])journey to this (-5[1])place is prompted by the murder of (10[1])the wise councilor Aeschere. Upon receiving the (-5[1])sword Hrunting, a man swims down to this place to (10[1])do battle (10[2])with a creature who terrorized Heorot after the death of her son, a “descendant of Cain.” For 10 points, give this residence of (-5[1])a monster and (10[1])his (10[3])mother in Beowulf. ■END■