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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5973649" data-attributes="member: 19675">THE HIDDEN RITUALThe PCs discover a scroll that hints at other spells from Evard and Tenser...They follow clues leading to finding these spells, finding they cover the full range of power.&nbsp; One odd thing- despite these being fragmented and ancient, they are in astounding condition, as if they had been made just days before.&nbsp; The parchment upon which they were written is seemingly impervious to the passing of time and mundane threats like dry rot.If all the pieces are reassembled, a description of a hidden Ritual will be revealed.&nbsp; What its purpose is is not immediately evident.The secret: each time one of these other spells by these master mages is cast, a barrier that keeps an evil being from the Far Realms imprisoned weakens.*&nbsp; This was hard-coded into these spells without the knowledge of either one by the efforts of research assistants (apprentices)&nbsp; who were devotees of this being.&nbsp; When they finally DID discover this, they tried to rewrite the spells, but never succeeded.&nbsp; Their conclusion was that the imprisoned being's own energies made the spells function.&nbsp; Thus, they felt they had to rid the world of the offending spells.&nbsp; They hunted down and killed the apprentices who had done this, used powerful magics to shred the virtually indestructible scrolls, and scattered them.&nbsp; Better their greatest achievements be lost to time than The world be lost to all consuming insanity.But one of the being's acolytes survived long enough to write down an account of the spells' existence...the scroll the PCs found so long ago.* Only their most famous spells were untainted.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5973649, member: 19675"] THE HIDDEN RITUAL The PCs discover a scroll that hints at other spells from Evard and Tenser... They follow clues leading to finding these spells, finding they cover the full range of power. One odd thing- despite these being fragmented and ancient, they are in astounding condition, as if they had been made just days before. The parchment upon which they were written is seemingly impervious to the passing of time and mundane threats like dry rot. If all the pieces are reassembled, a description of a hidden Ritual will be revealed. What its purpose is is not immediately evident. The secret: each time one of these other spells by these master mages is cast, a barrier that keeps an evil being from the Far Realms imprisoned weakens.* This was hard-coded into these spells without the knowledge of either one by the efforts of research assistants (apprentices) who were devotees of this being. When they finally DID discover this, they tried to rewrite the spells, but never succeeded. Their conclusion was that the imprisoned being's own energies made the spells function. Thus, they felt they had to rid the world of the offending spells. They hunted down and killed the apprentices who had done this, used powerful magics to shred the virtually indestructible scrolls, and scattered them. Better their greatest achievements be lost to time than The world be lost to all consuming insanity. But one of the being's acolytes survived long enough to write down an account of the spells' existence...the scroll the PCs found so long ago. * Only their most famous spells were untainted. [/QUOTE]

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