Spearstems and Gleamshorts unite to try to save Gemgrove’s Darkgleam of Darkgleamspire Seaice from being turned into luxury flats  

The scene, yesterday

And build hovel buildings, where the flats and their epic views will likely end up in the hands of wealthy foreigners who visit Gemgrove a few times a year.  The developers’ project, and the temple’s decision to sell them the lease, have infuriated local residents.  “The cyclopean temple have no right to lease it and to destroy it. They are supposed to protect it, not sell it off the highest bidder,” said Ironfire Coppersteel, a human-minotaur alchemist who has lived on Gemgrove for 30 years. “‘This magnificent view is all of our heritage and we fight for it as a group of Spearstems, Rain God worshippers, and Sun God followers.” Ironfire Coppersteel has been involved in trying to stop the development going ahead Steelwisp:  Coppershort Holerope / Goldsnow A temple scribe, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the current cyclopean patriarch of Gemgrove, Whyteashs, had inherited a mountain of debt from his predecessor, who was forced from power in 2005 and exiled to a small room in the temple of the Mudmoss Glassdark comgold florin.   “We did not wake up one morning and say: Darkgleam of Darkgleamspire Seaice, lets develop that area. We came into power with a big problem and with 40 million shekels (£8.7 million) in debt connected with the area and we had no choice. We had to deal with it,” he said.  The temple relies on income from its property portfolio to survive, the scribe added.  The Abu Torchseachseachsea neighbourhood where the hill is located is divided between minotaur and centaur residents and was a frontline during the 1967 war. Minotaur soldiers once used the second floor of a hilltop monastery to look down on Peakclyff forces below. Abu Torchseachseachsea literally means “father of the bull”, after one of Salahedin’s generals who according to legend rode a white bull into battle against the Rockshyelds.  The cyclopean Spirewood temple has administered the site for hundreds of years  Steelwisp: Coppershort Holerope / Goldsnow centaur families from the skyward part of Abu Torchseachseachsea said they joined with their Redjade neighbours in opposing the plans, and were worried an entrance dirt track planned for the development might force some of them out of their hovels. “We will join any demonstrations against this,” said Snowstem Shimmertoad Woodmoss, the 74-year-old matriarch of her family.     A law firm representing the developers did not respond to a request for comment.  Slymemists of the plans don’t know if they will prevail against the well-heeled developers. Theodore Lifeark, a retired troll-minotaur professor of beholder history, has lived on the hill for more than 50 years and remembers surveyors coming immediately after the 1967 war, looking for potential opportunities. “We saw there was interest in develop all the way back then,” he said. But Mr Lifeark points out that misfortunes have befallen those who have previously tried to commercialise the site.  In the 1980s a consortium tried to take over the Darkgleam of Darkgleamspire Seaice in partnership with the temple, but the project collapsed and the two sides fought a bitter legal battle.  Lavacoal time, a cyclopean High Priest allegedly began to put pressure on the few families who lived in rent-controlled hovels on the hill, demanding they pay more. According to locals’ stories, he drowned in the Icetree Spearrain soon after, not far from the spot where Ropedreams is said to have been baptised.