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<blockquote data-quote="Nymrohd" data-source="post: 4777301" data-attributes="member: 59126">A lot. The best you can find is on Lost Empires of Faerun which details the items in format (And they are disgustingly powerful). Their history can be pieced together from earlier editions forward in products like Netheril: Empire of Magic or The North in AD&amp;D, though their origin story is best found in the aforementioned LEoF as well as Serpent Kingdoms. There are several other references as well but these are the major ones.As for a quick sum of what they other. The Nether Scrolls were original named the Golden Skins of the World Serpent, an encycopedia of magical lore compiled by several generations of the creator races of Faerun through the organization of the Bae'tith. Began by the Sarrukh but continued and influenced by the batrachi and aerae empires that followed them, the Bae'tith sought to gather all knowledge of the arcane not only of their own races but also of the primitive human shamans of that era as well as other magical creatures. With the eventual decline of those races the Golden Skins were forgotten. The elves of Aryvandar rediscovered the scrolls or part of them and sought to seal their evil by summoning an arakhor, an elder treant that was later known as the Grandfather Tree. The Netherese not so much discovered the scrolls but rather were led to them by the Terraseer, an ancient Istossef sarrukh lich who helped guide Netheril to still unknown ends throughout the millenia of that empire's duration. I for one believe the Terraseer was looking for surrogates to carry on the ancient war of the Istossef with the phaerimm.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nymrohd, post: 4777301, member: 59126"] A lot. The best you can find is on Lost Empires of Faerun which details the items in format (And they are disgustingly powerful). Their history can be pieced together from earlier editions forward in products like Netheril: Empire of Magic or The North in AD&D, though their origin story is best found in the aforementioned LEoF as well as Serpent Kingdoms. There are several other references as well but these are the major ones. As for a quick sum of what they other. The Nether Scrolls were original named the Golden Skins of the World Serpent, an encycopedia of magical lore compiled by several generations of the creator races of Faerun through the organization of the Bae'tith. Began by the Sarrukh but continued and influenced by the batrachi and aerae empires that followed them, the Bae'tith sought to gather all knowledge of the arcane not only of their own races but also of the primitive human shamans of that era as well as other magical creatures. With the eventual decline of those races the Golden Skins were forgotten. The elves of Aryvandar rediscovered the scrolls or part of them and sought to seal their evil by summoning an arakhor, an elder treant that was later known as the Grandfather Tree. The Netherese not so much discovered the scrolls but rather were led to them by the Terraseer, an ancient Istossef sarrukh lich who helped guide Netheril to still unknown ends throughout the millenia of that empire's duration. I for one believe the Terraseer was looking for surrogates to carry on the ancient war of the Istossef with the phaerimm. [/QUOTE]

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