The Great Library of Palanthas

An Aesthetic shows you to a small reading room.

Stories of Ansalon from the view of Sakwar.

A little gully dwarf runs by and says 'Wordwrap is at 80. You change? Off 65 80.'
The gully continues 'Eyes hurt? Turn Color OFF!! (regular story dates)

Astinus says 'Enter the main library here to view only the author list.'
Astinus gently places a giant book on the table in front of you.
You note the spine bears the word 'Sakwar' scribed in dull orange ink.


Author:    Sakwar         
Date:      Thu May  8 01:27:56
2008
Subject     First Task For The Apprentice

After meeting with my
master, High Archmage Jendaron, I bowed and left
with haste. I have just
recieved my first task as his apprentice... I will
not make him wait. I searched
high and low and could swear I'd been
everywhere in Krynn at least twice. I was
tired and weak from transporting
and running about but I was relentless in my
task. "I will not let down my
master", I thought. I found myself in the
throne room of the Goblin king
Grumm. Needing only one last item, I demanded to
see his shaman. He refused.
I flew into the air in an evil rage! Letting him
feel all that I could
muster of the dark magics of Nuitari. I finally dispatched
him with a
furious bolt of lighting through his heart. I kneeled down next to
his
corpse as he was almost dead and asked him, "Where is the Shaman? ".
He
pointed to the door behind me as his eyes rolled in the back of his head.
I
stormed through the door to find the shaman hiding in the corner. "Give
me
the potion or you will end up like your lilly king!". He stood,
shaking
uncontrollably, and retrieved what I came for from his desk and handed
it to
me. I placed the potion in my bag. Grinning, I uttered, "You
dumb
Goblin...". I turned and walked towards the door and with just a
few
words, the room began to fill with water. I quickly closed and locked
the
door behind me, leaving the shaman to dround.

Making my way way back to the
tower, I was exhausted from the quest but
relieved to have completed it. I made
my way up the Black Tower to the High
Archmage's Quarters. I knocked firmly
on the door and from inside I heard
the word "Enter.". I opened the doors
and entered slowly into the room to
find High Archmage Jendaron at his desk.
With a deep-black bag in my right
hand, I kneeled in the door way. 
 
Still
kneeling, "Master, I have the items you require"...

Author:   
Sakwar         
Date:      Wed Jan 28 02:34:14 2009
Subject    
Ascension to Evil

Sakwar sat alone in the back of the library. He spent
much of his time
studying and committing his spells to memory. As an ogre, he
knew he would
have to put forth much more effort than most magi. He had came in
early that
morning to pick up where he had left off the day before. Night fell
and he
was still there. He moved from the chair only occasionaly to stretch
his
long legs. Sakwar had just returned to his seat after a good stretch when
a
cold, hard gust of wind swept through the library. 

Sakwar shivered and
yelled to the apprentice working in the library, "Close
the shutters
apprentice! There's a mean draft sweeping away my health."

Sakwar got no
response. Angry, he stomped towards the front looking for
someone who might be
on duty. As he neared the entrance to the library, the
double-doors swung open
violently and the young apprentice burst through
them and into the library.


Out of breath, the apprentice spoke between labored huffs, "Master
Sakwar,
forgive my intrusion. High Archmage Jenda-", the apprentice sucked in
a big
gulp of air. 

Spit it out you worthle-." Before Sakwar could finish
his sentence the
apprentice interrupted. 

"The High Archmage wishes to see
you at once..." Another deep breath. "He's
atop the Black Tower, Master. It
seemed... urgent." 

Sakwar stood there for a moment gazing at the boy. He
wondered to himself
for a moment what might be so urgent that the High Archmage
would send this
young apprentice running to him so swiftly. He snapped out of
it, blinking a
few times before speaking... 

"See that the book on the back
table is not disturbed."

He reached and grabbed the hood on his robes and
flipped it up over his
head. The dark, black hood made it almost impossible to
see the ogre's face.
He walked swiftly out of the library and down the stairs.
His long black
robes flapped violently in the wind as he made his way across the
gardens to
the Black Tower. Ascending all the way to the top, he hesitated
slightly
before entering the shrine. Jendaron stood in front of the altar facing
away
from the door. 

Not sure if the High Archmage heard him enter he spoke
slowly, almost in a
whisper, "High Archmage Jendaron..." 
 
 
(To be
continued...)

Author:    Sakwar         
Date:      Wed Sep
15 03:29:34 2010
Subject     The Staff


A large fire crackled in the
fireplace a few feet away from the
Ogre. Flickers of light danced across the
imposing physique of the
Highmaster known as Sakwar. His soft, flowing robes of
black dangled down to
the floor as he sat in an oversized chair staring
intensely at an old,
dilapidated book.

A small gust of wind raced across the
room pulling the fire ever so slightly
towards the door as it opened suddenly
behind Sakwar. A soft spoken man
stepped just inside the Highmaster's quarters
and spoke, "Highmaster."

Sakwar grunted back swiftly, "Who disturbs me
during my time of study?"

"It is I, Taskmage Elroth, Highmaster. I must
speak with you at once", said
the man.

Without lifting his gaze from the old
book in hand, Sakwar replied,
"Speak."

The Taskmage began, "A young Adept
came to me this evening outside the
tower. He's heard... rumors." Sakwar
lowered the book onto his lap and
stared into fire, clearly a bit intrigued as
to where this was going. "He
spoke of a large man and something about him
being hunted. I was less than
interested, Highmaster, till he mentioned a
peculiar object the man was
carrying... a peculiar staff."

Sakwar quickly
jerked his head around to stare intensely into the eyes of
the young Taskmage,
"Go on."

The Taskmage inched forward into the flickering glow of the fire.
His eyes
stared blankly into those of his superior within the Order. "He said
that
this particular staff was adorned with a unique blue crystal..."

The
Highmaster's face went from intrigued to fierce as he snapped the
relatively
small book closed and dropped it on the floor beside the chair.
He stood and
stared into the fire for a few seconds before turning to
Taskmage Elroth,
"Leave me at once." 

Author:    Sakwar         
Date:     
Thu Sep 16 05:14:43 2010
Subject     The Staff (2)


Sakwar paced
about his quarters high within the Tower of Wayreth. His
mind raced from
possibility to possibility. Could it really be the same
staff he had only heard
mentioned as nothing but a myth? He stepped over to
a small window on the far
side of his room. Sakwar gazed up into the sky at
the Dark Moon only visible to
those with dark, magical intentions. He
thought to himself, "I must see the
Highmage..."

The large Ogre stormed out of his room and made his way through
to the
Highmage's personal quarters. Sakwar had long studied under Jendaron
before
he had been chosen to head the Conclave. He knew the Highmage had, at
least
for most of his life, drawn his strength and magical prowess from the
Dark
Moon, and if anyone knew about this staff it would be him. The guards
that
typically stood sentry outside the Highmage's quarters were not present
as
Sakwar approached the double-doors. He flung the doors open and searched
the
rooms, only to come up empty handed. "Where in the Abyss.."

The
Highmaster stomped quickly into the courtyard outside the towers and
approached
Taskmage Elroth. Speaking sternly, yet soft, Sakwar asked, "I am
unable to
locate Highmage Jendaron. Where has he possibly gone during a time
such as
this?"

Elroth replied, "I overheard a pathetic member of our Order telling
another
that he plans to send the Highmage bouncing forward through time itself.
The
buffoon's name, as I heard it, is Falkore. He claims to be a
Highmaster
within the Order."

Sakwar's brow furled and a primitive snarl
overtook his face quite
uncontrollably at the notion. He lumbered closer to
Elroth, towering above
the smaller Human. "Is that... a joke?", Sakwar
grunted between his teeth.

"N-no, not a joke. He boasted to another member of
the Order just a day and
one-half ago, " he stuttered.

Sakwar stared into the
man's eyes and then glanced about the courtyard.
Seeing nobody around he leaned
in as close to the man's face as possible,
"Gather some supplies. We leave
tonight."

The Highmaster turned and started back toward the tower before
halting
abruptly and yelling over his shoulder to the still Taskmage, "And
have that
idiot Falkore removed from the tower. Only the Gods themselves possess
such
impossible abilities." 

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