Xue Yunfeng suddenly remembered something from long ago... When they had gone to Icewind Dale with those Torilian mages to search for the legendary divine artifact Hill had long since tucked into his bag, they had learned a little about the origins and history of the Nether Scrolls.
Hadn't there always been a claim that the Nether Scrolls were created by powerful Snakefolk sages?
Of course, the gods had helped complete them later, but the Serpent Empire had indeed been the first to come up with them.
He still remembered that the Nether Scrolls were merely the most powerful divine artifact, certainly not the only written records the Serpent Empire had left behind.
Even the notes those powerful Snakefolk casually jotted down on their own scales had an immortal quality, so they had survived the age of dragons and the rise of the elves to reach the era of humans.
Besides, given how much dragons and elves loved gossip, if they had read a story about some god, they would definitely have embellished it and spun it into something new!
Back in the days when elves and dragons fought to the death, the elves had written their gossip on dragonhide. Otherwise, how would Hill have learned about the romantic gossip surrounding Corellon and Artemis... Even without mentioning Silver Moon, he could guess without a second thought which female archer might have caught Corellon's eye.
Though the Greek goddesses all had their own distinctive styles, turning on people without mercy, striking viciously, and being selfish to an unbelievable degree, Artemis's traits were at least somewhat comprehensible to ordinary people.
Wait. Xue Yunfeng remembered something: Hill had once said he had copied almost every book in Candlekeep's library.
Had he overlooked something in that word, "almost"...?
After all, Hill had hired people