When Bandit looks, he is in another place, looking down on a large room lined with old books and radiating power. At the center of the room stands an old man with a long gray beard. He wears a hat shaped like a cone and a long daric robe inscribed with mystic symbols. With the glowing tip of a radiant wand, he writes symbols in the air. The symbols speak." I am the mage Penticlese . .. The phenomena described in this text, the knowledge that I now relate, comes to me from the Ancients ... The dark ages of our forebears ...