Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 2 Aug 2005 to 4 Aug 2005 (#2005-150)
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 1. Rahasia

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Date:    Fri, 5 Aug 2005 07:22:17 +0100
From:    Jon Cole <jonaecole@PLAUTIANI.FREESERVE.CO.UK>
Subject: Rahasia

I've just finnished running Rahasia - which I set "on the way to Selenica"
as implied in B1-9

Anyhow here's how I inserted it into the background (an expansion/plagarism
of text in the module.) Historically I put Elyas' fight with the witches (a
covey of powerful hags) at around the same time as the fall of Nithia:-


Ular-Taman also tells the PCs the following story.

"Many generations ago, when the land of the vale was still rolling plains, a
wizard named Elyas visited the elven peoples. He asked for a place to live,
where he could work in peace and solitude. Because his heart was true and he
respected the elves and their customs, the elven King Mealiden gave him a
place at the edge of the lands that they had claimed, and he built a
tremendous tower. For many years they helped him and he protected and taught
them, for his magic and learning was vast. The elves' friendship with Elyas
was passed across the generations and clans until even Elyas grew old. Then
disaster struck. Three horrible witches attacked his tower. They sought a
magical gem that Elyas had discovered in his travels for some purpose of
their own.
None of the witches dared face Elyas alone, but together they were very
powerful. In a fiery battle they called down a grey mountain to crush Elyas.
As the mountain slammed down onto his tower Elyas drew the witches inside
it, where he trapped them. All then perished in the cataclysm.
In his memory, King Mealiden ordered the construction of a shrine to his
memory on that mountain. Many years later, dwarves were sent by the King of
Rockhome to the assistance of King Alevar of the Elves to cement a
friendship between their two kingdoms, and King Alevar sent them to the Gray
Mountain to erect a great Temple to Ilsundal in the honour of King Mealiden.
The Temple became a place of quiet meditation and learning, and elven
scholars would spend a period here studying among the Siswa. Now this
mountain is known as the Gray Mountain, and a force of evil has entered the
sacred sanctuaries.
I guard the way to Elyas' tower, but I feel in the earth that the Rahib has
found another entrance."

Jon

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