Mysteries and The Unknown

A collection of unsolved items, events, and characters in Strixhaven. Perhaps they are important - perhaps not.

## The Assembly

**See the Full Page:** The Echo Assembly for more information.

After the Festival and we help Presto Chango find his assistant, Hold Hammerhearth. We track him to his warehouse, where we hear him talking to a mysterious man ("Scary Man") about a mysterious organization called the Assembly.

> "The Assembly will contact you," The Scary Man tells Hammerhearth. "No one leaves the Assembly."
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Later, when we report the incident to the Dragonsguard, we tell them what was said about the Assembly.

## Black Goo (Eldritch Balm)

**See the Full Page:** Eldritch Balm for more information.

**1st Appearance:** During Session Zero, we are first introduced to the black goo when Optimal, Slayeh, Raina, and Cuddles ride the chariot. The chariot came to a sudden halt and we were flung forward. There was a mess outside in front of the carriage - **some kind of black goo** was spilled and some Quandrix students worked to clean it up. We heard a yell squeak from underneath our feet from the undercarriage. Optimal opens up the undercarriage to find Cuddles. We invite him to sit with us inside the carriage as we continue our ride.

**2nd Appearance:** After fighting the mimic in the Biblioplex, **a black liquid of sorts** splattered onto Afton and Sashura. Optimal inspected it to see if it's the same as before, but the check was unsuccessful.

**3rd Appearance:** After the potion mishap during the Festival, we are able to knock Tater out: he spits out **black goo.** Later, Sashura reports this to the Dragonsguard.

**4th Appearance:** After we passed first exams, we celebrated at the Firejolt. Some students racedfrogs (including Rampart and Greta). After the race, the frogs suddenly become huge and attack us. As they died, **black goo** seeped from their mouths.

## Dream Voice

Raina accidentally sees a portion of Sashura's dream. As Raina attempts to pull herself out of the dream, she hears the voice of a distinguished man say: "I’ll tell you a secret. I didn’t kill them. I teleported them into the cellar under the tavern. You know the one. Funny, isn’t it? What man will do for gold.” Raina has never heard that voice before.

## Green Figure/Bugs

Raina has a vision of a small humanoid with green hands and four fingers. This creature stole a summoning box from some Witherbloom students (Slayeh spoke with them later) and let bugs loose in the boys' dorm after stealing the black goo from Pringles' bag and destroying Maestro.

> *"It should have been easier," The figure was heard saying. "Those damn first years."*
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## Lumen Historia

Professor Horatio first tells us about the Lumen Historia on the first day of Magical Studies. It is Arcadios’ greatest secret. It holds one of the greatest, most powerful spells ever to be created housed in an artifact. It’s actually three spells in one ancient artifact - it’s said whoever is the keeper will gain power not seen for many millenia. Three three spells are: the Historia of Law, Judgment & Fury. Little is know about judgment & fury.

Many intrepid Lorehold students will devote a large portion of their life to finding this artifact. Perhaps someone here one day will find it, he notes. He said he tried, but came up short. He continues on of this mighty spell (think 10th level spell). There’s speculation of Judgment & Fury - what they are. Fury is end times spell that will bring about the apocalypse supposedly. Some think you must cast all spells in sequence. Prof. Horatio is talking about speculation - nothing solid. He describes what the artifact is supposedly encased in - a giant crystal, a pink tourmaline. They don’t know what the artifact looks like.

### Historia of Law

There is one historical record of the Historia of Law cast by its creator, Mavis (to her friends). She was once a teacher here at Strixhaven - one of the first. In a mighty battle during the blood wars, a great foe arose - a monster from the book of Zeraph tore through the lands. The Historia of Law once cast - any creature its caster deems as an enemy will be erased from history itself. Mavis used this spell to rid the world of Zeraph’s monster. It was said she thought this spell was too powerful - not to be wielded by anyone. So in the last moments of her life, she cast this spell into an artifact and buried it here somewhere on Arcavios.

## Man in Black

We meet the mysterious Man in Black in the quest to save Raina from the Dream Stalker.

## Man in the Gold Mask

During the search for Raina in her dream, they see the Man in Black looking at four screens. Optimal is the only one who sees in the 4th screen there is a man in a gold mask with the Biblioplex behind him. She has no other context other than the assumption that he is important to the Man in Black in some way, just as the other three groups of people that he's watching are.

## Memories

When Raina drinks the voidfish ichor, a memory is restored:

> Piles of parchment paper and books are strewn across a desk. A figure at the desk shakes the quill in his hand, spraying ink everywhere. It’s grasping at the quill. “We cannot have you here at this time, I’m deeply sorry. It’s time for you to leave.” A voice not hers says: “You can’t do this to me. I can’t return to my people without answers." "You won’t find them here. Get away and just leave.” This figure has dark sunken bags under his bloodshot eyes. They look up at her. His elderly normally warm features are stern, they scowl. “Stay out of these ruins and never return. This place is not for your kind. You and your people are cursed and we will have nothing to do with them.” In this memory, the person whose eyes she’s seeing this through bows and Raina hears tears, sobbing. Right before the memory fades, she’s staring out of what appears to be a dig site - ancient ruins. The sky is maroon and there are moons that Raina doesn’t recognize. The plant life looks foreign. This figure walks away from the site and walks down a trail.
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### Mysterious Lab

He has a lab in the Biblioplex with a large water-filled cylinder with some sort of tendrilled creature.

## Names Not Called

***Note: Only K-W3rk and Afton have this information.*** When K-W3rk and Afton are being loaded onto the zip (cable car) in Runesport, two names are called, but no one answers.