Disks of Mishakal II (Magic Book)

The once-lost Disks of Mishakal, are steeped in legend. These disks, crafted during the Age of Might, provide a treatise on the rituals and worship of the gods of Krynn. Each of the 160 disks is made of hammered platinum, thin as a quith-pa wafer and three hand-spans wide. A rod of steel pierces one edge of each disk, binding the disks together. Arcane glyphs engraved on both sides of the disk tell the secrets of the gods. As with any sacred text, the disks answer a multitude of questions, but raise a many more.
The disks are said to have been commissioned by Karthay Pah, though the actual work was completed at the hands of Eriel Caladon nae Tempus and a triumvirate of Silvanesti scholars. When the kingpriests arose, the elves feared for the loss of this divinely inspired work. Therefore, they sent it secretly across the land to their brethren in Qualinesti. Barbarians from New Sea massacred the caravan and the disks were lost.
In 255 PC, the disks were rediscovered in Zhakar-the ogres wanted to melt the disks and forge them into coins. The disks somehow escaped melting (perhaps by divine intervention or a unique magical property). Later, a gray dwarf named Forlorn Ironbeard summoned the gods to aid his folk, the Zhakar, in repelling Khurian raiders. The ungrateful Zhakar abandoned Forlorn to his doom in the final siege of Ransom's Gate. The gods sent the mold plague to punish the unfaithful dwarves.
Word of the lost disks reached the kingpriest and a royal bounty was set for their recovery. In addition to the glory and power the disks would provide, the kingpriest knew that quests for the disks would preoccupy the Knights of Solamnia. Many valiant knights sought the holy disks, but none ever found them. At last, the brash plainsman Clearbrook set out upon the quest. His travels took him to world's end and beyond, into the mists of the Abyss. When Clearbrook returned to Xak Tsarolh, he bore the disks in a robe of bison skin. He delivered the relic to the priests of Mishakal, and then led his pursuers (spies of the kingpriest) into the Darken Woods-none ever returned.
In Xak Tsaroth, the disks lay hidden. After the Cataclysm, the barbarian priestess Goldmoon recovered the disks from the ruins. At war's end the fabulous disks were ensconced in the temple of Mishakal at Palanthus for the most devout and pure souls to study and learn the teachings of the gods of good.
Anyone with good alignment may touch the disks, and those with a proficiency in ancient languages may read them. Those of Neutral or Evil alignment who attempt to touch or rend the disks, are struck by a lightning bolt that arise from the disks, doing 3d10 points damage. Although priests of Paladine strongly warn petitioners that “they must be at peace with Mishakal and Paladine to read the disks safely,” one or two unworthy readers die every year. To the worthy, however, patient and penitent study of the disks can unfold the mysteries of death, creation, and life.
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