As scribed by Serenity GL Zordac
Day 29 of Weeping Skies of the year 161
My dear friends, it is about 15 Cosrin months ago that Serenity burned down... it took us a long time to rebuild everything but I wonder if not some kind of damage was done to our guild that never can be repaired again....
Just recently I realised that my brave plant Battlevegy suffered from some strange disease... some leaves turned yellowish and they were covered with strange knobs for which I had no explanation. Trying to cure my plant I used all different things like baby bio, water... I even tried spells on it... but nothing helped. I finally decided to ride back to the mountfields to have it a rest in the soil it came from. When I arrived and said the secret password to gain access to the mountfields something happened that made my soul cry out!
Nearly all plants have died!!!!! The leaves of the remaining were yellow and covered with the same knobs I already saw on my plant.... I never saw something that scary and sad! I stood in a field of sighing plants... without having the chance to help them....
But I realised something else... It was not just a disease... The whole soil of the mountfield was poisoned. Battlevegy had contact to it when we checked the area after the great fire... therefore it was still alive though suffering... but all the other plants had to stay and grow here - taking more and more of the poison until they were killed. I read through the scrolls and even contacted the deities about what to do... but the only thing I found out was that the great fire poisoned the ground - the used Magic left a layer of dust on the whole area that killed them all.
Oh what a fool I was... I now wonder if this was an attack to weaken our subguild more than an accident! Was there a mad plan behind that? I wonder if we will ever find the answer to that... I took the remaining seeds I could find and stored them safely, hoping in the future I might find a place where to plant them... I patted Battlevegy... my dear plant... and left the area deeply depressed. My friends... There is more to come on this subject... this is not the end of this story yet!!!!
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My dear friends, dear fellow members of Serenity Subguild...
It took me long before I could go back to the area where we used to grow our Serenity mounts, our precious plants. Too strong was my sadness and even the thought of the wasteland that expected me there was just too much. So I went on trying to find a cure for the magic fields and a way of how to make the area fertile again... with hardly any luck. Something like that never happened before... a fire caused by a magic accident (as stated by Athanis) - meeting on a magic field, magic creatures and destroying them... something like that was not even known to the Immortals and has never happened before. The fears, the pains, the sigh of death... the plants did became part of the field... and poisoned the ground. Even my little plant ...as far as I know the only existing and living plant of the forest that is left... got poisoned and the leaves turned yellow... a strong sign that it will die soon, too. I lived with it for so long ..its branches protected me - its deadly thorns scared beasts away and its friendship with me enlighted my heart and made its blossoms grow.
But I had to put an end to the poisoned ground... and so I decided to make an effort to clean the ground from all evil. In one of the old scrolls that I found buried deep in one of the libraries I found a way of turning the evil soil of haunted places to pure soil and to its former nature - a giver of life. I decided on performing this ancient rite - and this and all that happened then is what I want to describe now - because something amazing happened that will change our Subguild and its future.
In the scroll it says that I needed dragonteeth... those had to be turned into a powder and mixed with some herbs and other secret ingredients. And so I did - slowly the teeth became smaller and smaller and finally only a wondrous powder that was shimmering in different whites was left over. I needed a lot of the powder and so I had to work for some days - only making the powder - until I had a bucket filled. With this bucket and another bucket filled with holy water I entered the former Serenity fields... now a wasted land with the dead bodies of the plants I could not save..dust devils were haunting the place and the sound of the wind was a whistling that could scare younger mages to death. Even I felt very uncomfortable... but I knew that I had to perform the rite... I was the elected Serenity Guild Leader and no one else could do it.
I started the prayers in an ancient tongue - not ogrish... not elvish... not human... maybe the language we all spoke when all races were just one... who knows - and I started to spray the holy water onto the ground. Slowly I walked over the field and where the drops of holy water hit the ground little flames appeared and a smell like rotten eggs filled the air. I went on praying and throwing waterdrops on the ground to prepare the soil.
After I finished the field was covered in little flames... the air became cleaner and the smell became a strange flowerish one. Now the hard bit started... I had to walk through the flames and bring the powder made of the secret ingredients and the dragonteeth onto the ground like bringing seed onto a field. I used my flamebane spell to protect me from the flames but when I started to walk across the field my feet didn't even get warm... some wondrous magic must be working keeping the flames cold and purely white..which is usually the colour of really hot fire.
Slowly I walked across the field ..singing and humming ancient prayers and songs... and in the end I looked at the field - and nothing had changed. I did a deep sigh... and started to sob silently... all my work was in vain. Nothing was happening. Full of anger I took some of the dragonteeth which were left over and threw them onto the field - my tears of anger and disappointment were running down my face and I could hardly see what then started!
There where the teeth had hit the ground the flames exploded... the teeth grew enormous and a deep and loud rumbling could be heard as if the whole earth moved! Rocks formed in the middle of the field and about five times as high as the tallest giant I have ever seen... pure white rocks... formed like teeth! Slowly they started to fall but... oh wonder - they moved in a way so that they formed a gigantic cave... like walls the rocks made a chamber. I could see the entry... but not what was lying behind.
After I was able to move again I slowly started to move towards the entry... and I looked into a chamber which was simply beautiful... the walls inside were covered with crystals - glimmering in all shades of white... lightbeams were shooting from one crystal to the next creating a net of beams that covered the walls and I had to remind myself that this beautiful, wondrous place was just created. It was breathtaking!
So I stood there in the chamber... being impressed and hardly able to think straight... and I finally thought that I had to give this place some use. I took the last remaining seed of our beautiful plants out of my pouch and decided to put it onto the ground in the middle of the chamber. This should be either the place where new hopes rise or all hopes die. I kneeled down and placed my hands above the seed... like saying farewell to something dear to me - and I suddenly realised a strange warmth that emanated from the seed... The warmth started to pulse and I moved backwards full of the most beautiful emotions you could imagine! Like an outbreak of purest energy a flame appeared in front of me about twice as tall as a human is and a wondrous whistling which nearly seemed to be a melody filled the room... and then I could see in the middle of the flame... dragons... shimmering white dragons... flying around as if they were made of light or energy... still very young ones but the skin was shimmering like the white inside a shell... They seemed to smile at me and I heard a strange voice in my mind saying:
Yes... we are purest magic... we are the spirits of the plants of the forest - their souls now changed to a new form - we are shimmering white dragons... we will love your guild as the members of your guild loved us - we are and will be your new Serenity guildmounts!
This is what happened... only a little longer and the dragons are grown up and we will be able to choose one if we like them... or... are they choosing us?
Who knows...
Alley back to the library foyer.
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