Brighthelm Stane Library

Being the public documents available to those visiting Brighthelm Stane without prior appointment.

A Squire Blackest Hour

Once in the past, a great battle happen deep within the woods on the great lush fields of Draman. Many knight and men of honour fell defending the realm against an evil sorcerer intent on corrupting the entire land into the planes of un-dead. This evil sorcerer had the power to suck all of the…

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A Song for Dredd Amadon

A Song for Dredd Amadon The following was used to appease the Fae assassin Dredd Amadon for the creation of the Sword of Tears. Original script Leodum ir minum rwylce him mon lac gife; willad hine aþecgan, gif he on þreat cymeð. Ungelie is us Wulf is on fete, ic on oþerre Fært is on…

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The Tower of the Silver Guardian

Many years after the ritual was preformed to create the sentinel a powerful woman, vain and selfish found out about the page within the tower and decided to claim it as her own. But she was a vain and foolish woman, who on passing the great keep, saw a young man sitting in a garden,…

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Wolves Midsummer Festival 1099

A Hart’s View, by Lord Ranulf Farendon A small party of Harts attended the recent Wolves Midsummer festival in Norsca. In typical Norscan defiance of the White Hand it was decided to hold the festival, and King Gunnar’s wedding, in the newly rebuilt town of Silverdale, 35 miles from the war’s front line. We arrived…

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Wychwoods

From the library of Edward James "That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? I met a little cottage Girl: She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland…

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A report on the Conclave of Mages by Dargon 1105

I arrived after dark on the Friday of the conclave, it was a short walk from the circle up to the stables where I was directed. It appears that one of aben’s experiments had gone slightly awry and he felt it would be safer for all if we were put up in the stables. There…

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A report from the Emperor’s first appearance

The Emperor – Josharim II A Liche. *Was* a Tebronian Emperor, but it wasn’t Tebron himself. One of the later ones, maybe. If he’s a liche, he’s a very powerful one, his weakest followers could only be dismissed by a very large incantor wedge. He could also apparently use mind affecting magics on Scullion although…

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A piece of an Enforcer Record

Classified report for the eyes of golden harp command only, continuing to read this document will lead to the omega sanction. Agent XI enforcer centurion Morten first month CCCLVIII A.P Acting on information received from the Lios Alfar contact. Prepared ambush at circle CXIV as to standard procedure. Lost IX agents in the first XX…

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A List of Threats

Katerina, Current Threats 1. Strong Ones – Last seen possessing Iver Elves at Green and Pleasant. 2. Marchwood – Elves upset over a forged letter by Finn and Ripper (one of many forged letters over the past year – probably Empire?) and the Old Thing in the crypt as in Hunter Stryker’s report 3. Empire…

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A legend of Seven Swords

During the scouting of Serenity, we found some grey-robed figures, of monkish appearance. On of them had a torn parchment left on him, with the following start to a tale: "Long ago, before the Empire came to these shores and Albion was a wild place of tribes there dwelt on the shores of what we…

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