The Legend of Arinth the Mad

The Legend of Arinth the Mad is a book in .
==Contents==
The Legend of Arinth the Mad 
In the year that my ancestor Isteru caused the forests to grow, there was born a boy named Arinth, who was well gifted with the powers of the Edhel. Together, Isteru and Drindan the Wise taught him our arts, and he learned well and grew wise in the ways of power. 
When the time of his adulthood came, he left the camps of the Edhel, and with Drindan traveled to the sacred waters of Aman'lu, where he began to complete his training with Drindan as his guide. Drindan was amazed by his student's abilities, and sent word to Isteru in dreams that all was well and that their hopes were coming true.
Arinth was able to summon energies much greater than any other Elf could survive, and had created many powerful artifacts, among them a staff which he had enchanted to amplify his abilities even more. Isteru and the other Elves rejoiced that one so young could do so much. 
But soon, Isteru's dreams ceased bringing news of Drindan and Arinth, and he began to worry. Visions came to him of a dark cloud covering the sacred waters, sending great bolts of lightning into the heart of the forest. So Isteru and his sister Istaura led a party of the most powerful of the Edhel sorcerers to Aman'lu to find the pair. 
What they found did not relieve them: Arinth had lost control of his great power, and it had consumed him; he had become a monster, full of rage against all who lived.
In his madness, Arinth struck out at the sacred waters and the forests—evaporating rivers, scorching great trees into nothingness, and rending great gouges in the earth. He attacked the Edhel from above, raining down a cloud of offal from the creatures he had destroyed. 
He struck them with lightning and with fire, with frost and earthquakes. But the sorcerers were strong, and by combining their power were able to subdue and imprison him deep within the earth. There he remains to this day, to rave against the walls binding him until the end of days.
Drindan had managed to destroy most of Arinth's great artifacts when he saw what his young pupil was becoming, but the staff was too powerful to dispatch safely. All the sorcerers together managed to disassemble it into three pieces, which they hid in safe places: one to the south in the Cliffs of Azunai, one to the north in Vai'lutra Forest, and one to the east in Snowbrook Valley. Thus was its power broken. 
And to this day, no mother will name a child Arinth, and many will not speak his name, for sorrow fills the hearts of many that one so young and full of promise would be the cause of so much pain.
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