Avadeti

The old man that lives in the shacks by the Black Gate in the Plane of Shadow 
..
His name was Avadeti and when they introduced themselves he asked, 'Are you intending to travel 
through the black gate?'
'Perhaps,' answered Fenrir.
'Towards what purpose?'
Fenrir looked at Barrington, but the paladin shrugged.
'We were only told to find it,' he said. 'Then report back.'
'Well, if you do,' said Avadeti. 'Don't spend too much time in the Voidlands. Undead lurk in 
the mists and even just breathing the fetid air will kill you after a while. No one can survive
long there, but sometimes, rarely, people come through the gate. Little flecks of habitiable land 
still remain of our world. How to find them I have no idea. Also, it is a world of what the scholars
call Wild Magic. Spells will have strange effect unless you are a real master.'
The old man then went on to explain what had happened to his world.
'It is an infinite sorrow that I carry with me, the descruction of my world. We were a world of
great power and magic. My people walked the planes, they crafted many wonderous items, they researched
a thousand spells. But the arch mages grew too powerful, too bold and too proud. They attempted
to build a device that turn anything into a spell. Put a rabbit in and you got a shard (we used shards
to store our spells, they functioned in the same way as scrolls) and you got a spell that summoned
a rabbit. Point the device at an ocean and you get a spell that created water. You understand?
Well, the first time the device was used, it didn't turn something into a spell, it turned EVERYTHING
into a spell. It stripped the entire top layer of our world off and converted them into shards.
Only a few of us survived, I've no idea how. I can never return, I would be turned into a shard, 
so here I wait.'
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