... On another parchment, placed next to the long one, if it wasn't torn down ... This is the continuation of the previous parchment.
More on the story of the Bridges and T'oleflor As told to Freldo, a bard, by Master Ozymandias, The Bard. I missed Plenarius' fireside chat over the whole deal with the T'oleflor but I did manage to hear Master Ozymandias' account of the story and I'll reproduce it here, to the best of my abilities... Long ago before the great Cataclysm the T'oleflor took an active hand in guiding and guarding this world. However they were betrayed many times, by those they were sworn to protect and by those sworn to protect them. In the end only one of the great elven plants, you know the ones elves use to make their most powerful weapons the moonblades, was left. That one was in a forest known as the Shining woods, however it was under seige on its own merrits.
(1) A ranger from the Glimmering Halls now known as the Broken Halls named Shadow
(2) traveled to the forest and rescued that last elven plant. Then traveled with it to the last bastion of the T'oleflor, there it was decided that the world posed to much of a risk and had to few defenders for it was Bloods remaining forces that had been destroying the plants.
(3) As well as the servents of Pyrtechon and Corath which deeply wish the end of a certain dragon god.
(4) It was decided upon then, that the T'oleflor would seal themselves away for a time until heroes had gathered able to conqour eight difficult challenges and truely learn of the world. Eight items were gathered and then scattered throughout the land, each one a shard of nature and this world the last was a jewel of souls that Selian communicated with Shadow thru. So one by one the bridges were built by those of us of Hlint as we sought ancient relics from times long gone till at last the final peice came together.
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1 - Must be the events of the year -210, it does fit the situation. 2 - The bridgebuilder, now departed and freed from his duty. 3 - General Bloodstone fears the Silver Veign, this is obviously important. 4 - I speculate again but the Dragon God they tried to eliminate might be the very one that appeared to me and called me to Hlint not so long ago.
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I also inquired on other things that I thought useful.
-- About what the items were that built the bridges: "Most of the bridges are a mystery. We know we did something, we are just not sure what. The two that govern the great library were charged with recording this information, and failed."
-- About Rhizome's choice, the one mentioned by Shadow, I asked him if it was between the path to the Great Tree that led us to the T'oleflor home or the one that led to the crypt. He replied: "That was his choice, each had benifits and each had concequence. There are two great portals in that region one leads to the Plane of Lost Souls in the Abyss, the other lead to where we went. With the Soul Mother on vacation so to speak, the plane of lost souls may of been captureable and a new master enthroned. Blood is a gnat, the soul mother is far more dangerous." I asked, if we could have used the Soul Mother's powers to fight General Bloodstone and he answered that it was possible be if she tried to stop us, we would all be doomed, however ..."with her powers would of come the ability to open the other door anyway." Fascinating point, we could have taken a path more perilous but the safer choice was made.
-- Finally, I inquired about the outcome of these events and the possible destruction of General Bloodstone. His answer was not exactly heart warming, then again, great strifes never end all at once... "Once Blood is down then we have to rebuild this world and fast before we suffer masive civil wars." As for the "and fast" part... It might be because we opened a portal through which the outer planes might start a war amoung themselves ... and ... I speculate again ... Layonara might be their battlefield. So it seems that whenever the Bloodwar ends, a new war might start, one with fiends from beyond the great expanse of the planes -
GREAT. So there it is, another little bit to this long tale I make public for us folks new to this great strife. I'll think of other things to ask Master Ozymandias whenever he has some free time.