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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 under a cliff. A man takes a hilt from this place after he beheads a corpse, whose blood melts a (*) sword “from the days of the giants.” (10[1])A journey to this place is prompted (-5[1])by the murder of the wise councilor Aeschere. Upon receiving the sword Hrunting, a man swims down to this place to do battle with a creature who terrorized Heorot after the death of her son, a “descendant of Cain.” For 10 points, give this residence of a monster and his mother in Beowulf. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Grendel’s lair [or Grendel’s mother’s lair; accept cave in place of “lair”; accept synonyms such as hideout in place of “lair”] (The Dead Marshes are in Middle-Earth, near Mordor. All direct quotes are from Seamus Heaney’s translation.)
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