A tome found in the room of a wraith deep in the long forgotten Wave Echo Cave. On the cover, a map is stitched onto the book leading somewhere far north.
Purpose
Through reading the book and paging through long stretches of schematics, building requirements, and ramblings, it is discovered that this was once the personal journal of an Efreeti named Sago who used its slaves to begin plans of creating a planar gate in tectonic fissures in the far north of the Aramante region.
The timeline is unclear when the journal fell into the hands of Mormesk the Wizard, but he later began writing in the tome as his personal journal detailing efforts of a school of enchanters utilizing the magic properties of the Wave Echo Cave mine for the construction of the planar gate.
Historical Details
Background
The book details what the enchanters in Wave Echo Cave were doing over 500 years ago within the cave and what they were utilizing the building materials for.
History
The tome was lost during the Orcish invasion over 500 years ago in Wave Echo Cave.
Citadel of Sago the Enchantress: Planar Gate Tome
The majority of the book is written in a language unfamiliar to the prime material plane: Ignan, the language of the elemental plane of fire. The beginning of the book is a brief history of its author, an Efreeti named Sago the Enchantress who had a prolific vision of creating a permanent planar gate in the tectonic fissures in the far north of the Aramante region. Sago's plans for the gate were supposedly "grand" in design but never outlined in their sections of writing.
Different schematics and building requirements of the planar gate can be uncovered and deciphered from ignan, as they litter the pages of the book, with future schematics clarifying and changing the previous designs with notes written around them in Sylvan.
There is an abrupt end to the writings in Ignan with no clarification of what happened to Sago. Writings in a different handwriting in ignan begin after these with notes in Sylvan, before the text itself just begins to be fully written in Sylvan.
The remainder of the book details the purpose of the human mages of the Wave Echo Cave operation over 500 years ago. Most came from a Citadel to the far north. A safe haven and study for wizards in the region. The text of the tome tells the story of the Human Mage circles of Aramante, and how those who lived in the North discovered the interplanar gate underneath in the tectonic fissures below the Citadel. They wanted to reach out and connect with the gods of other realms. Mormesk, the now current author of the book, led a group of mages to Wave Echo Cave once the word of the mining operation reached the Far North. They used the magical properties of the cave to create the Forge of Spells and enchant artifacts and building materials needed to make the gate operational.
The books contains more maps to the fissures beneath the citadel and the actual citadel operation within. The map on the cover leads directly to the Frostbound Citadel, the home of the mages in Wave Echo Cave. The book ends with Mormesk preparing to defend Wave Echo Cave from potential Orcish invaders.
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