Gondelesha’s Bit

Gondelesha’s Bit MYTHOLOGY, CULTURE — A cultural term. → Gondelesha was a mythical figure said to have bound any large body of water, especially oceans, to land. Gondelesha’s Bit refers to the coastal city, → Halenhead Keep. The bit references the clamping mechanism used by Gondelesha to bind the seas to land, thus bestowing upon Halenhead Keep the distinction of being the most important coastal city, the → joiner between land and sea. This moniker, and Halenhead Keep, are not part of the mythology story of Gondelesha. Rather, once Halenhead achieved notoriety as the largest, and arguably most important city in all of → Mor-Thandak, the mythology of Gondelesha was repurposed to honor the city’s greatness.