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| Bleak Origins, Dark Endings |
| The last journal of Wilhelm Magnan |
(The following note is a page fragment found at a long abandoned camp site in an ancient cave of the Kaldir Crown Mountains. The fate of its author, Wilhelm Magnan, is unknown.)
despite some immediate similarities, I believe that, farther back, I have found paintings that are unique to this cave, leading me to believe that the painting here are older than the ones I discovered in the Border Mountains. Several depict nightmarish beings with demonic features and, beneath them, figures bent and in anguish. Could these be “Bleak Onesâ€, the “Dark Weavers†the elven texts spoke of? If so then I have finally found evidence beyond the suppositions in the Histories written by the monks of Ardenath.
Nearer the entrance are the more recent painting I wrote of earlier. Between this cave – which has yet to be named in any chart – Magnan’s cave maybe, after myself, I should think – and those in the Border Mountains I think I have a clear progression of events – events which must have taken place in ages so far past that this may be the only evidence left. Somewhere, a race of humans were taken as slaves and changed, over time and through great suffering. To what end? An army? If the agent of change – the demonic figures – is as literal as the evidence seems to indicate, I will need to confer with others – perhaps the college at Allstone? I dare not speak of this to the church. Even in these days of the New Dawn there are still inquisitors about, hiding behind a smile instead of a whip. I found my first leads in the elven tomes, perha
I write now in haste – something is here with me, a blackness between me and the way out. It fears fire, and so I have been feeding my meager camp as best I can. Torches are gone, and this is the last page - but I will not burn it. Someone else will find this some day and this will be a warning. Leave now, before the blackness rises from the waters to claim you.
Here it comes |
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| Associated Regions: Kaldir Crown Mountains |
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| From the journal of Wilhelm Magnan |
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Contributor: Mortedamos |
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