Lundar's Library

Day 85, Year 548

Tenebrion’s soul?

It turns out that Tenebrion was not fallen in the Sapphire sector of
the Ethereal Plane as previously believed. We now know that the healer
Merlisk originally found Tenebrion in the Ruby sector of the Ethereal Plane, which lies just to the north-west of the Sapphire sector.

Today, we investigated the Ruby sector at the request of Tenebrion’s
brother Melabrion. After a long battle to clear the Sapphire sector, we
began luring monsters out of the Ruby sector, in preparation for our
investigation.

This is when we began to notice some strange phenomena. At one
point, J’nder began to glow blue, and she told us that she sensed a
rush of ether flowing into Puddleby, similar to what was felt by the party that discovered Tenebrion. The apprentice mystic Laiy noted that ether levels were out of control.

Once we entered the Ruby sector, we noticed even more disturbances.
Almost from the moment we entered the Ruby sector, we all felt
something strange and uncomfortable. There was also a chill about the
air, that none of our cloaks could keep out.

As we explored deeper into the Ruby sector, we happened across
a lost soul. The creature seemed mindless, or perhaps single minded,
and did not seem to notice the presence of our party at all.

The creature kept on repeating the words “Pur” and “tory” to
itself, and we believe that it was seeking a way into Purgatory. Some
even believed it to be Tenebrion’s lost soul. We tried to communicate
with the soul for a while, but it did not respond to any of our
queries, and we soon began our journey back to our own plane, to report
our findings to Melabrion.

Inside Melabrion’s Keep, we told the wizard of our findings in
the Ruby sector. Melabrion did not believe that the lost soul that we
found belonged to his brother Tenebrion, though he did not know of its
identity either. He was, however, very disturbed by our reports of the
cold and the ether flowing into Purgatory.

Melabrion then left us, suggesting that we investigate the
Ethereal Plane again at a latter date. I agree that there should be
further investigations, perhaps with the aid of Callia, Drablak, and
our other top ethereal scholars. Perhaps then we will find the origins
of the disturbances that mystics have been sensing for the past Zodiac.