The Great Library of Palanthas

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Stories of Ansalon from the view of Miral.

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Astinus says 'Enter the main library here to view only the author list.'
Astinus gently places an elegant book bound in elf-skin on the table in front of you.
You note the spine bears the word 'Miral' scribed in deep green ink.


Author:    Miral          
Date:      Thu Jul  1
14:48:53 2010
Subject     Arrival to Palanthas

Looking
up at the sky here in Palanthas as the rain drips onto my face
it
reminds me of my homeland and how things were at one time. Never
did I
expect that my new found talents would have caused my
father to lessen his
view of me, especially considering our
familys lineage. Now I find myself
copper less and without access
to my familys estate in Qualinest. As I walk
these streets I know
care little about the petty strife between the
commoners of
mankind and the mess theyve created for themselves. And yet
it
seems I must become interested if I am going to continue
living away from my
home. I see members of the different robes
quietly walking around at times,
into the guilds where one can
find some minor training for a price. I find
myself longing to
know what they know and see what they have seen. Like a
new
sapling, I feel that my magic abilities require nourishment,
light, and
water to make them grow. 

I have been looking for
some time to find someone who would be willing to tutor me in the
ways of the 
arcane.  Someone who can teach me to harness this
driving force of passion and power into something 
that is
worthwhile.  Many things I find are behind me at the tender age
of one hundred, but I see in my 
dreams at night robes, white,
red, and black all calling to me.  So here again I find myself in
the rain and 
without shelter in Palanthas, looking for members
of the conclave.

Author:    Miral         

Date:      Thu Jul  8 15:55:25 2010
Subject    
Growth

Old yellow and wither pages with old writing
prelude this text, showing that has been some time since 
the
last entry took place.  Either that or the journal has been
through more than any book should.

I find myself now an initiate
member of the Conclave of Wizard of Kyrnn.  The knowledge and
wisdom 
being passed along to me, just within the past few weeks
of being here is more than I could have hoped 
to accomplish in a
lifetime.  As my previous entry indicates I had been scouring the
city of Palanthas 
looking for a means to be trained.  Prayers
had gone unanswered and my frustration began to grow, not 
only
with the citizens of Palanthas, but the gods and society in
general.  As I walked I found myself 
slaying thieves and thugs
of every kind, trying to ease my anger and build my knowledge
base within the 
minor magic groups.  A magic missile here, the
chill of my touch there gave me a certain feeling of

accomplishment, and allowed me to start making a living by
working with the local quest master.

It was unexpected that once
night after completing a quest and doing my usual ritual of
preparing for 
rest; making sure I was invisible, ensuring that
wards of protection were in place around me, detecting 
spells in
place.  I grew exceptionally tired, at first I thought it was
just that a busy month had caught up 
to me.  But I was wrong,
and never expected that I would be greeted in my dreams.  I had
awoken in my 
dream to a soft, calming voice whispering my name
until my attention was fixated on the figure calling 
to me.

I
was shocked to find the figure identifying itself as the Avatar
of Lunitari.  Lunitari had told me that she 
had been watching me
personally, noticing that I had great potential; she said that I
could help the 
world in keeping balance if I would align with
her will.  Before I could even speak, I was told that she has

spoken with Solinari and it was agreed that between the gods
that in order for me to grow I would need 
to see all aspects of
magic.  Hence being a mage of the Red Robes was the course that
was chosen for 
me.  Lunitari has told me that she would appear
to the leaders of the Conclave of my presence and need 
for
training.  

I found myself awakening, no longer in Palanthas but
in a very comfortable bed within the Tower of 
Wayreth.  Next to
my new accommodations was a table with a fine red robe and a
selection of spiced 
wines and foods laid out on it.  Beginning
the new day as a member of the conclave for the first time 
was
exquisite, meeting the teachers, trainers and shopkeepers within
the Tower gave me a sence of 
comfort.  As they were there to
nurture my growth and help me reach my goals, I have been told by

them that a master will take me as an apprentice soon.  In the
mean time Im taking the opportunity to 
be involved in in-depth
study, mastering the minor magic skills I have been taught by the
conclave.

Author:    Miral          
Date:     
Mon Jul 12 15:53:24 2010
Subject     Miral's Journal Entry,
Pages Three and Four

The old pages of this wrinkled
journal seem to be refreshed in some way.  Almost as it has
stopped its aging, whats more
the new entrys do not seem to have
been written by the hands of any mere mortal.... They speak,
almost as if the writing
is narrated within your head by the
voice of the author.


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||:| I find myself finally beginning to |: As
I was working this afternoon in    |:||
||:| tap the
potential that is within   |: library with my latest
Elemental pet, |:||
||:| me.  The mages within the
conclave |: I found my mind wandering.  It was   
|:||
||:| have given the advice to not focus |:
more than likely the mental fatige    |:||
||:| on
right or wrong per say, but to  |: of being awake for several
days       |:||
||:| focus on the source of the magic. 
|: straight in deep concentration.  But  |:||
||:|
So over the last several weeks I   |: it was odd, I began to
think of home, |:||
||:| have traveled in an attempt to
put |: mother, father, siblings of what
seems|:||
||:| myself into some really bad situa-
|: to be long ago but isn't.             |:||
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tions.  Most have forced me to     |:                        
              |:||
||:| feel things I have never felt
were |: I knew that the conclave had a hall  
|:||
||:| possible, let alone practical.     |:
near Qualinost, but I didn't realize  |:||
||:|        
                           |: it housed the headquarters of
all the |:||
||:| So from using my combattive spells
|: robed mages in Krynn.  Truely powerful|:||
||:|
to bring ruin upon goblin keeps    |: magic is in place to
protect all of   |:||
||:| leaving nothing but rubble
or      |: us.  As I look up from occasion from 
|:||
||:| creating food for starving urchins |: my
studies, in the far distance I can |:||
||:| in Krynn's
great cities.           |: see the Speaker's Tower and
remember  |:||
||:|                                   
|: having a simular view as a child at   |:||
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The positive of these experiences  |: home.                  
              |:||
||:| is that, even though I have yet
to |:                                      
|:||
||:| aquire a master my growth has been |: A
longing or a pulling if you will    |:||
||:| rapid. 
The negative to this is    |: is drawing me home.  I desire
to see  |:||
||:| that I am beginning to crave and  
|: my father again, almost as to prove   |:||
||:|
lust after the power I see in my   |: that I can accomplish
anything without|:||
||:| potential future.  Is that
the     |: outside help.  But at the same time I
|:||
||:| purpose of having a master?  Is    |: see
how our culture doesn't allow for |:||
||:| this the
reason why Lunitari spoke |: that type of ... conversation. 
I do  |:||
||:| to me, telling me that I can aid  
|: strongly desire to one day return home|:||
||:|
in the balance?  I do not know.    |: to my families estate
and be welcomed |:||
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     |: with open arms.                      
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||:| Time and Events will teach me.     |:    
                                  |:||
||:|            
                       |: But first things first.  Where'd
that |:||
||:|                                   
|: Air Elemental wander off to?         
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Author:    Miral         

Date:      Wed Jul 14 15:04:46 2010
Subject     Journal
Entry, Pages Five and Six

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||:| At last! One of my studies
has led |: But the one person whom I have been  
|:||
||:| me to discover a spell that has    |:
able to count on is Arlaina Lai'ital  |:||
||:| caught
my amazement.  Whenever fa- |: of the red robes.  Shes been
kind     |:||
||:| ther would hire a mage for his
work|: enough to share a meal or a bottle of
|:||
||:| at home, they would appear without |:
spiced wine while helping me to find  |:||
||:| delay
almost as if they were there |: a particular text that would
make me  |:||
||:| already. This arcane skill is know
|: better grasp a subject.               |:||
||:|
as "Gate" within the community of  |:                        
              |:||
||:| wizards and battlemagi.        
   |: I've notice that while casting gate  
|:||
||:|                                    |: at
the end, where your destination is |:||
||:| With great
extacy I have been stud-|: spoken in the arcane language.
There  |:||
||:| ying the book "Walking the Astral 
|: is a particular accent that guides in |:||
||:|
Plane", and learning the secrets   |: more detail your
destination.  Though |:||
||:| of traveling great
distances with  |: success has been attained in casting 
|:||
||:| just a thought and a whisper.  I   |: the
spell.  I find myself only arriv- |:||
||:| have
successfully stood at the     |: ing in the temples of
Lunitari instead|:||                                     

||:| glyph of transportation at the base|: before a
very specific entity.        |:||
||:| of the high
towers, whispered a    |:                                    
  |:||
||:| word and opened my eyes to see     |:
As I do with any real questions I     |:||
||:| myself
standing within the Temple  |: traveled to Solace, got some
of Arlai-|:||
||:| of Lunitari in any of the great   
|: na's favorite wine. Then to Palanthas |:||
||:|
cities of Kyrnn.                   |: to get some fresh white
shark steaks  |:||
||:|                                
   |: (cooked by my burning hands spell).  
|:||
||:| I have recieved at first smirks and|:
Loaded them up on my floating disk,   |:||
||:|
chuckles from some of the mages    |: and proceeded in normal
manner with my|:||
||:| and masters within the conclave
   |: face burried into the text I am stuck |:||         
                          
||:| I assume its because they
thought  |: on, making my way to the scrye pool  
|:||
||:| such a skill and power would not   |:
hoping to have wisdom and experience  |:||
||:| be
found in a lowly initiate with- |: passed to me after hours
right before |:||
||:| in the order.  But that changed 
  |: she was ready to retire for the day. 
|:||
||:| with the first transport.  At which|:    
                                  |:||
||:| point about
five masters arrived   |: I lifted up my face briefly to see
her|:||
||:| right behind me, asking me who I   |:
in the distance, both of us smiling   |:||
||:| was and
whom my master is.         |: knowing a good evening was
before us. |:||
||:|                                   
|: When I arrived we had our normal      |:||
||:|
Shocked that no one has taken me   |: greeting, when a
cingular mage who was|:||
||:| under their wing, they
said that   |: by the pool turned to me almost      
|:||
||:| would be addressed and I would be  |:
screaming and pointing "It's you!"    |:||
||:| trained
by one whom has much more  |:                                
      |:||
||:| ability that a master.  Smiling   
|: In shock and tension I felt my body   |:||
||:|
and trying to be polite I thanked  |: begin to channel power
in such a way  |:||
||:| them for their support. But as
    |: as if naturally defending me by
prepa-|:||
||:| my experience has shown me, if you
|: ring an offensive spell.              |:||
||:|
have the desire to do something    |:                        
              |:|| 
||:| within the order, you must do
it on|: Arlaina's touch on my shoulder, and  
|:||
||:| your own.  Most mages, masters,    |: the
realization of the mage           |:||
||:| archmages,
taskmasters, etc. Are   |: being dressed in the formal garb
of a |:||
||:| far too busy with their own
pursui-|: high ranking taskmage dispelled this 
|:||
||:| ts to teach anyone without an      |:
charging of power.  It took a few     |:||
||:|
alternate motive it seems.         |: moments for the
floating disk to disp-|:||
||:|                        
           |: el the magic around me, as was
evident|:||
||:|                                   
|: by the chattering of the plates on it.|:||
||:| 
                                  |:       Ok, Now What?     
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