Glowing Tome of Good and Evil

The Glowing Tome of Good and Evil

Listen well…This is the tale and History of how was found the ancient artefact “The Glowing tome of Good and Evil”.

It was on the day of 07/11/2010, that the two freemen adventurers named Falcon and Sigfrid Altenahr, stalwart sons of the kingdom of Caligus in the East Continent, did adventure into the deepest depths of the dungeons running under the city of Hamadan. They had heard rumour of an undead lord, one Nekhmet, who held sway over his hellish minions under the city streets. Over many cups of strong wine, our heroes laid their plans to find and defeat this bane on the city, and having possessed themselves of such charms and sigils as they could procure from the hawkers outside the temple large temple of Sanctus Acies, and having received blessings from a priest of that temple, they repaired to the sewers, always the point of first entry to the underworld.

After some hours they found the clues leading to the undead lair. They dealt with group after group of shuffling undead, slow powerful Draugar, and lithe skeletal warriors, until they reached the hall of Nekhmet. At the door was a warder, fell and terrifying in his aspect, a Draugar of inhuman strength and skin as hard as wood. Shouting the battle cry of his family, to which he had no right due to his low birth, Sigfrid smote the gatekeeper on his neck, but the sword fell notched from his shaken hand. Amazed at the failure of his blow, Sigfrid failed to avoid the clubbing fist of his foe and fell to the floor senseless. Falcon seeing that his friend had fallen, drew a battleaxe, more suited to the woody texture of his foe, and set about the draugar to such effect that he chopped it into many pieces which struggled on for a while before losing animation. Then brave Falcon passed into the hall of Nekhmet himself, even Nekhmet who had lived for over a thousand years growing powerful and proud in the impotence of men to harm him. He faced that foe with sword and axe against freezing breath, shattering mace, and draining talon, until Nekhmet fell, his evil stilled forever.

Then did Falcon claim his prize, a brass bound Tome, covered in ancient glowing runes and sigils, hanging by a chain from Nekhmet’s belt. Falcon took it but had wisdom enough not to read from it. Taking it he helped his friend Sigfrid to the surface. They took it to a certain sage in the city who had knowledge of things both clean and forbidden. In great excitement he told them that it was the lost Tome written by Dolshereif, a mage of the ancient world who in his youth was known as “The Good” and in his latter years as “The Fallen”. In it, Dolshereif had placed all his wisdom, Good and Evil, and such power that any man who opened it would not put it down until he had read it all, and he would gain all the wisdom learned in the life of that learned mage.

Upon learning that, Sigfrid took the Book to Cuthbert Von Ulthuan, Duke of Hamadan, and urged him to buy the book, for a Duke has need of wisdom more than a Freeman.

[Bonus = +4 Prestige]