A Teacher for Laynie: Mystery at the Academy (Part 2)

(OOC: You can't tuck it away--it's as tall as a person, even fully rolled-up ;))

*Vanitri looks through the books and finds a bunch of secret history information dating back to musty old tomes from hundreds, maybe even thousands of years ago. Based on Rayne's comments, Vanitri looks for something that is fairly recent.*

*Before he finds it, though, he notices a very old record on Sice himself, and remembers how Rayne mentioned he was called a Dark Lord as well. Dusting it off, he looks through it and sees references to some pretty horrific magical experiments, all conducted in the name of the Empire, safety, and peace of mind. Well, most of them. Some of the later ones were based on life extension, and they reference some of the books in the magic section. Looking through a few of them, he sees that one is missing--looking around, he sees it is on one of the reading desks--apparently somebody has been checking it out. It has information on something called the 'Philosopher's Stone'. This is a powerful item that can make wishes come true and contains the ability to perform vast magic, end diseases, transmute iron to gold, and perhaps even grant eternal youth. However, those who sought to create the stone gave up when they realised that the key component of the stone was the life and soul of sentient beings. There is even a nice illustrated diagram that seems to have been drawn by Sice himself. It looks exactly like the thing Vanitri saw in his vision, though the sketch in the book is in black and white.*
 

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*Apparently about twenty years ago, someone calling themself the 'Dark Lord' appeared at the school and began to gather followers from amongst the Highborne. The 'Dark Lord' preached about the superiority of Highborne and their special role in discovering the secrets of the universe and of magic, though other than espousing disdain and perhaps hatred for others, the lord didn't support any particularly troublesome activities until a spy tried to infiltrate and poke around at one of the meetings and was killed for such insolence. At this point, the Dark Lord made an ultimatum to return the Highborne to prominence and restore Medibaria's place in the world back to where it was in the ancient past. It never appears to have been followed through, however. As far as anyone knows, the Dark Lord just vanished and gave up on that goal, so to avoid alarming anyone, it was agreed to store the information in the secret libraries instead of the main one.*
 


*Many of the faculty have been here for a while. The most notable faculty members who were students back then are two of the Housemistresses--Rayne Liore and Kharisa Valpyren.*
 

Kharisa... could be. Vanitri files it away in his head while he searches for the time before about the Dark Lord, looking for an MO.
 





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