Whispers of the Void

> "In darkness, one hides in plain sight.
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> Look to the stars for the compass that you seek.
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> One should fear what one cannot reach.
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> Deep within the void, the whispers call to me.
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> Promises. Truths. Lies. I can hear them all.
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> Whether to free them, kill them, oh how I wish they would let me be.
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> I cannot defend what hides from me.
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> It is coming." - Inscription from within the diary, Whispers of the Void
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### **What is "Whispers of the Void?**

It is an ancient diary that contains many long lost secrets. One of the secrets is a scrying potion recipe that can be used to identify the general location of all the map pieces that would lead to the assembled Doomsday Device.

It was heavily enchanted with a series of protective charms. The first was a strong fire protection spell that allowed it to survive the burning of the Alexandria Library. The second charm would change the cover of the diary from brown to black if its initial protective seal was broken.

Embedded in the diary is a reddish eye that belongs to serpopard. A serpopard represents "a symbol of the chaos that reigned beyond the borders", which the one must tame. There are seven different hieroglyphs used to represent the eye, most commonly "ir.t" in Egyptian, which also has the meaning "to make or do" or "one who does". In Egyptian myth, the eye was not the passive organ of sight but more an agent of action, protection or wrath.

### **Who was its creator?**

It is the diary of Aziza Fiak of the Vek Bloodline. She was alive when the assembled Doomsday artifact was buried in 1450, and was the status partner of the head of the Vek Bloodline, Lady Kerowyn Vek aka 293821.

### **Why was the book created?**

The founders of Trefoil Academy of Magery and Sorcery were approached and their assistance requested to help with the destruction and subsequent hiding of the assembled Doomsday Device.

Luana Artemis belonged to a bloodline called the Varig Bloodline, who was a descendant bloodline of the Vek Bloodline.

Luana Artemis’s fifth cousin was the leader of the Blood Heralds. It was because of this blood connection that prompted the academy founders to approach the leader of the Blood Heralds, 293821, for assistance in hiding the assembled doomsday device.

The assembled doomsday device was hidden in 1450. During this time, the leader of the Blood Heralds, 293821, order the creation of a map in case the assembled doomsday device needed to be retrieved. She had disagreed with her fifth cousin, Luna Artemis, that it would forever remain buried because of the Heru Cipher.

To make sure that the pieces would not be forever lost in time, the map was then divided up into 25 different pieces. Each map piece was marked and a tailored scrying potion recipe was created just for those markers. The clues to the recipe was then placed within the diary of her status partner.

### **Where is it now?**

Galen Hayles of the Hayles Bloodline aka Mr. Sneak Sneak was instrumental in helping a student, Curse, in recovering the “Whispers of the Void” and protecting it from the Westgaards. When Curse presented the remains of the book to Lord Vek of the Vek Bloodline, Lord Vek had inquired who had helped. After indicating, “We know him as Mr. Sneak Sneak,” Lord Vek then identified Galen by name.

Galen has been feeding pages to the academy and the Veks since then.