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Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Treasure journal

Treasure Journal

Being an account of all the special treasure the Company has recovered so far.

Dragon broach without a pin
A beautifully worked piece of silver even if it is much discoloured with small amber coloured stones for eyes. It carries a minor enchantment that allows it to act as a key to the back gate of the ancient Dwarf hold found under the Meliac’s farm’s Barn 


Black wood box
A heavy coffer of dark wood framed in Bronze with a sturdy if packable lock my be enchanted to preserve its content some what as the material found with in was rather better preserved than that found in the rest of the area where it was found.


The Arcane Tome
A large book with solid wooden leather covered covers bound in gilt bronze or brass which may be secured, closed by a strap and buckle arrangement. The book is around A3 size and has over a hundred pages. All are covered with an unfamiliar ancient script seemingly in the hands of several writers it is illustrated thought out with various arcane diagrams mostly of increasingly elaborate versions of the design found on the floor of the chamber where it was found. The book is showing its age and is not in quite such a good condition as the apparent spell book found in the same location but it is very well made and  seems to be entirely intact. The page which it was open at when found is probably the worst discoloured. Some one adept at appraising books and documents would quickly discern that the book has been rebound possibly to add additional pages at least once possibly several times.


The Bronze Dagger
Found in the box above with the apparent spell book and a handful of miscellaneous items. It is a beautiful piece of work a roundel style dagger with a broad leaf blade of untarnished bronze a vaguely feminine hand grip apparently turned from some sort of ivory framed by a minimal cross guard and pommel also bronze but very finely worked with a pattern of interlocking raised diamonds along their edge.

The weapon resembles those used by some of the Drejii tribes of the young kingdoms east of the spine of the world but the work is of a truly master quality. A comment from D’rek who appraised the weapon suggests the weapon would be worth a prince’s ransom if a buyer could be found.


The Spell book
This appears to be the archetypical wizards spell book it is around A5 sized bound with heavy leather and contains one hundred and twenty pages of finest calf vellum about two thirds of which are covered with writing in an ancient script. The script is unreadable and unidentifiable by any who have yet seen it but does appear to be the work of one hand and resembles that in the Tome  

Assorted strange coins
Found in the chamber of the wizard both on the wizard and in the black wood box where a number of Bronze, Brass & silver coins of an unfamiliar but very defiantly related type  around a dozen of each where found suggesting that they where once the wizards disposable wealth. The notable thing about all of them is that they appear to have script on them which resembles that in the tome and the spell book.


Elf bane Arrowheads
Dwarf work for certain resembling a cross between a hunting broad head and a war arrow and with the makers mark on them in something which resemble oddly formed dwarven runes.


Dwarven splint mail armour
Recovered from the accommodation area outside of the halls of Aildor the arch mage it is not magical but has been enchanted to resist tarnish and the effects of age it is very fine armour of solid, welded, rings reinforced by scales and splints over the torso shoulders and forearms made for a dwarf but it is wearable by a human & similar who though taller are of slighter build all lacings on the armour are made of a metallic weave rather than leather or plant fibres as in common armour of this type


Broach of the radiant flame
Found in the kennels of the goblin camp it is a simple disc cloak broach made of a bronze alloy showing what appears to be a holy symbol, thought one not known in this age on Telene, of a flame emitting rays of light. If handled by the right individual it becomes apparent that there is the design of an archway over lain on the flame and if further handled further by the right individual a ring of dwarf like script which glows softly and then activates the broaches considerable but subtle power and teleports the bearer without error to the nearest operational gate on the kings road. It was long used as a badge by the successors of Aildor until replaced by a more resplendent but less magically potent one as the Dwarf Empire fell into decadence


Zildor’s scroll
Written in Dwarvish thought an unfamiliar dialect of it for Telene it contains three useful spells and notes on how to learn them, they are TRANSLATE as well as the apprentice spell of ENCRYPT MAGIC which renders the text in a spell book unreadable to any save the person who cast it and READ MAGIC a journeyman spell which allows the caster to read and understand any spell so protected as well as well as being a help in understanding magical writings of all sorts.

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