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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallak" data-source="post: 3120028" data-attributes="member: 37105">Dietrich the shop keeper looks around warily at the people in his shop."Uh...keys?  Uh, yeah, yes, I have all sorts of keys."  A crooked smile snakes across his lips as he comes around from behind the counter.  He glances at Magyar as he steps toward Malachi.  "Excuse me, I got to hep a customer."  The man approaches Malachi, who is holding the shiny key.  "Now, let's see, what key have ya got there?  Oh, yes, she's a beauty, a very rare find, indeed, my friend! You have quite an eye for antiques. That there is the Sacred Key of Melindra's Chest!  No, no, I assure you, it is the genuine article, on mah honor as a Shopkeeper's Guild member. That is one of the original seven keys struck by the great locksmith Magistrade over a thousand years ago!  I acquired that key a few years back from a strange little sailor who came in on a boat from the far east, the Land of the Elves."  The man lowers his voice conspiratorily.  "He told me that he won it from an elvish fisherman in a game of chance.  Now, the fisherman pulled it up in a locked chest off the coast of the Isle Cellador, where it had lain burried in the mud more than six hundred years!"  Dietrich places an arm around Malachi and guides him to another portion of the shop.  "Now, on its own, the Key to Melindra's Box would be quite useless.  However, I have recently come into possession of a scrap of paper which is, in fact--" He glances around as if checking for people listening. "--a map!  A map to the hidden Isle of Melindra!"  He takes a rolled scroll of yellowed parchament off a high shelf.  It looks a bit tattered on the edges and is tied with a piece of rotting leather string.  "These two items together, for one such as yourself who has the courage and skill to recover the lost artifact, are priceless, mate.  Simply priceless."To Colmarr, the Isle of Melindra is an ancient myth.  Melindra was one of the seven benevolent gods involved in the creation of the world, charged with the protection and security of all life.  There was an eigth god, too, Shaimon, who brought death to the world.  His heart was bent on evil, and so the seven benevolent gods banded together to bind him from the world.  Shaimon was placed into a box created by the god Algor, and the Gnomish Archmage Magistrade crafted a special lock and seven keys, one for each of the benevolent gods.  The box was given into Melindra's care which she guards somewhere on her floating island.  Several details of the shopkeeper's story are suspect, however.  Cellador is the elvish name for their continent, not an island, and because the Isle of Melindra is a floating island and in constant motion, it is highly unlikely that any map would be relavent in revealing its location.In the back hallway, Denther quietly opens the door on his left.  It appears to be merely an empty coat closet.</blockquote>

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