Ramen S1C2E87

## Session Notes

* After asking a few more questions of Archmage Serene the group exited the Hall of Divination.
* Chaya Seto received a Sending from Master Zebadiah.
* She tries to keep her responses hidden, but Tearlag Gravehearth sees her trail back.
* Chaya asks what happened in Carston, with Zeb responding they are still looking into "*a new threat following an old entity*". He also says if she wants to know more she should return home. She responds saying "*see you soon*".
* While asking Pathfinder Brossur Goldrock to send a message to the Illumiknights to meet them in the library, Chaya sneaks off.
* Goldrock leads them into the Root Athenaeum. A wondrous library beautifully designed prevalent with volumes of flora in a magnificent view of levels and levels of floors in an arc around a grand old oak. The tree of knowledge. Each branch and level is packed full of tomes and scrolls.
* Librarian Aurelia Costa greets them having expected them, and leads them up and into the Stacks.
* She has to admonish Sneek Ash-hide when he tries to put a book on botany back in the wrong place.
* The librarians assist each of them in various subjects:
	+ Tearlag investigates "*Liches*" as well as "*Regulus the Reckless*".
		- A good amount of detail was found on the creation and capabilities of a lich
		- A unique hand-made sylvan tome logs observations of a lich
		- This includes the importance of the lich's phylactery
		- Within a Origin registrar journal is a single log of a Regulus entering Origin
		- An amendment to another tome are instances of known liches:
			* Siaszelud - former Counselor of Necromancy and matron of Nerzarn, detained for duration until her phalactory was destroyed.
			* Bhal’zyn - insane demon worshipper, defeated at the Battle of Molten Spire.
			* Dugzooz - Found in Galbraith and defeated.
			* Cheeg’zugux - found to be experimenting on himself with insect dna. Whereabouts unknown.
			* The Restoration of Lastrouye was a fallen king raised by necromancers. Believed lost when the entire kingdom sank beneath the Ocean of Barringbalt.
	+ Cerda Hammer investigates "*Yalena Whitemane*" and instances of the three animal heads:
		- Yalena is present at the forming of the Illumiknights by her brother, Leoric
		- She was the last known member of The Order of the Radiant
		- Their crest features a chimera with the heads of a lion and goat, with a tail of a snake head
		- The order wielded a mystical power bestowed upon them by god, which stemmed from the belief in the impossible, Chimäre Glauben. A chimera is often used to describe something that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve. Through their faith alone they could manufacture a holy power which they wielded to safeguard the good and righteous.
	+ Tyrol Gravehearth investigating the existence of an "*ancient kingdom*" within Takiden:
		- The lost Obrorus Kingdom was position central to the continent
		- It was ruled by King Anketil of House Rassent
		- During the dominion of the drakes he had bent the knee to the leader of the Draconic Empire
		- When that empire fell, so did Obrorus
		- The Draconic Empire occurred when the majority of Dragons on Menos decied they were the biggest and should rule, enslaving the planet
		- That came to an end when the mortal races allied and pushed back
		- A larger threat, the Tivecah landed the fatal blow. When the dragons were pushed back to Lumina they were killed by the Tivec to extinction