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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 1017057" data-attributes="member: 1125">Crochuk's Codex &quot;I have seen the Codex that once was held by the gnoll Crochuk and indeed it is both beautiful and terrifying. It is claimed that within its pages is told all the history of the world from the birth of the gods and even forward to the end of creation. Noone knows how the gnoll Crochuk came into possession of the codex but when I saw that poor pathetic creature he was blind and insane, his body wasted to nought. indeed I thought him dead until he raised his unseeing eytes at me and laughed his most hideous laugh. In mercy I killed him.Where? You wish to know where I saw the codex. Yes it was still held clutched in the creatures hand. Beyond the marsh near the ruins of Aztaclán - the City of the Herons- is a deep and narrow cave which leads by narrow passages and crawling to a mighty cavern of twisting columns and high vaulted ceilings. All the walls of that cavern are painted with the same hieroglyphs as are in the codex and also scrawlings by the hands of those who have tried to claim the knowledge of the codex as their own.I would have claimed it for my own if I had not seen the gnoll Crochuk rise even though the blood had gone dry within him and with him in the shadows the walking things - the bodies and the souls of all who have tried to take the codex are there with Crochuk. We tried to escape but only I survived - all my companions and we were five in number became victims to the codex and its keepers...&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; - Evidence given at the Trial of Michel Don CarlyonNEXT: The City of the Herons</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 1017057, member: 1125"] [B]Crochuk's Codex[/B] "I have seen the Codex that once was held by the gnoll Crochuk and indeed it is both beautiful and terrifying. It is claimed that within its pages is told all the history of the world from the birth of the gods and even forward to the end of creation. Noone knows how the gnoll Crochuk came into possession of the codex but when I saw that poor pathetic creature he was blind and insane, his body wasted to nought. indeed I thought him dead until he raised his unseeing eytes at me and laughed his most hideous laugh. In mercy I killed him. Where? You wish to know where I saw the codex. Yes it was still held clutched in the creatures hand. Beyond the marsh near the ruins of Aztaclán - the City of the Herons- is a deep and narrow cave which leads by narrow passages and crawling to a mighty cavern of twisting columns and high vaulted ceilings. All the walls of that cavern are painted with the same hieroglyphs as are in the codex and also scrawlings by the hands of those who have tried to claim the knowledge of the codex as their own. I would have claimed it for my own if I had not seen the gnoll Crochuk rise even though the blood had gone dry within him and with him in the shadows the walking things - the bodies and the souls of all who have tried to take the codex are there with Crochuk. We tried to escape but only I survived - all my companions and we were five in number became victims to the codex and its keepers..." - Evidence given at the Trial of Michel Don Carlyon NEXT: The City of the Herons [/QUOTE]

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