PS: Updates have been pretty lackluster lately because I keep getting dragged off to blind dates for entire days. It's driving me crazy. Luckily, I should be free over the May Day holiday, so I'll put out three updates a day to repay what I owe! Tianzi hereby swears it!
Mysty spoke of the past of Netheril's arcane empire.
The Nether Scrolls were one hundred golden scrolls that the Netherese had discovered in the ruins of Aryvandaar, an Elven Empire. These scrolls had transformed Netheril from a tribal nation of seven small fishing villages into a magical empire with a measure of influence in the multiverse.
Setting aside this familiar history, Lady Mysty revealed some genuine secrets about the Nether Scrolls.
"As you discovered in the ruins of the Serpentfolk Empire, the Nether Scrolls were actually made by the Sarrukh." Mysty was almost indescribably excited to share secrets, and she slowly recounted the story of the Nether Scrolls.
According to Lady Mysty, after the Sarrukh founded their empire and became a civilization that dominated the continent of the Realms, they naturally began to make contact with civilizations in other crystal spheres.
Among them was a civilization called the Spellweavers, which went to war with the Sarrukh. It, too, was a cosmic-scale magical civilization. At last, the Sarrukh began to take other cosmic civilizations seriously. They discovered that even the knowledge the World Serpent had taught them was not invincible, and that other civilizations had things worth learning.
Thus, the Sarrukh established an organization to collect and study the magic of other races, recording the magical knowledge they gathered, along with their understanding of it, on the World Serpent's golden skin.
These became the Nether Scrolls.
Yet the Nether Scrolls never served their intended purpose. While the organization established by the