Report of Interplanar Experiments

Report of Interplanar Experiments is a lore document found in the Palace of Ice DLC. It provides additional insight and information on characters and events, contributes to world-building. It is also a quest item. It cannot be sold, moved to a container, or removed from the inventory by the party.

## Description

This book is entirely written in the draconic language. It contains illustrations of monstrous creatures with horns, wings, and fangs.

## Text

*My work on Gates has led me to an intriguing proposition. If my calculations are correct, the Gates function by creating a path between two points, passing through another dimension. In so doing, they create a path that is shorter than one that remains entirely within our own. If there are dimensions - or planes, or universes, call them what you will - other than our own, it follows that there may be worlds in those dimensions, and inhabitants of those worlds, and who knows what other discoveries waiting to be made? I must investigate this further.*

*Initial work on the planar travel project - as I have decided to call it - has been slow and frustrating. There are intricacies to the tuning of dimensional harmonics which go far beyond those for travel across Solasta that have required me to create an entirely new branch of mathematics. In addition, the mana requirements are exponentially larger, and have led to some unfortunate effects in the mile or so around my experimental Gate - fortunately, these were fairly easy to contain.*

*More difficult were the identification and acquisition of sufficiently robust materials for the vital components of the modified Gate. These became necessary after early experiments left entire assemblies melted or even vaporized. A rare metal from the northern mountains shows promise, although a dragon is unlikely to be welcome there. I am practicing with a halfling polymorph persona, and am hopeful of obtaining what I need through this subterfuge.*

*My Major Gate experiments have borne fruit at last. After several failed attempts took me all across the face of Solasta, I at last reached a completely new location. At first, I thought I had landed in the far north of Ferendragh, for my Academic surroundings were cold and icy. However, the architecture of the ice-cut palace in which I found myself was not Manacalon, nor in the style of the Snow Alliance, and the creatures I encountered were as far from Snow Dwarves as I could imagine. I soon realized that I had stumbled upon a place of evil, full of vile creatures hungry for chaos and destruction. They call themselves demons.*

*Though most of the denizens of this ice palace were no match for a Manacalon dragon, their ruler was another matter entirely. I had already learned that this creature's name was Sessroth and that it went under a variety of epithets and sobriquets, each more violent than the last. In truth, I found all of them to be well deserved, for I was hard pressed to return to Solasta and write this report. Alas, I soon realized I had been followed by Sessroth through a hole left in the interplanar Abjuration.*

*Together, we fought Sessroth and gravely wounded him, tearing apart one of his arms, but at the moment that death struck him, he was gated back to his own plane. We pursued him only to find him sat on the throne of his Palace of Ice, regenerated and surrounded by many powerful allies. Adrasteia improvised a spell to seclude them in the palace. We returned home, exhausted. In the meantime, demons had ravaged many villages of the Snow Alliance and been defeated at great cost, leaving a trail of grief and despair among the people who had so kindly helped me gather precious metal for my experiments.*

*Adrasteia told me her spell could never hold against the power of so many demons, unless a constant effort and flow of mana was maintained. She had used Sessroth's bone to link the spell to the Archreaver, forbidding him above all to gate to Solasta, but she needed a sacrifice from me too, one that I was only too willing to make since I had been the cause of the situation. I offered up five of my claws so that I would be forever linked to the spell myself.*

*In addition, to prevent an invasion in the unforeseeable future, the spell needed more strength. Under the cover of my halfling wizard persona, I explained to the lords of the Snow Alliance that they too needed to give up something of themselves to protect their land against the demons. Five clan leaders agreed to swear an oath to maintain the spell, each bearing one of my claws to draw from their lifeforce, to keep the Palace of Ice on its plane and prevent interplanar travel to Solasta. The damage done by a handful of greater demons was enough for them to accept and take the oath, forming the Pact of the Claw.*

*They have pledged on their honor that the barriers will be maintained, and that the responsibility for doing so will be passed down to their heirs and successors forever. The fact ofa passage to another plane is to be kept a closely guarded secret, for fear of inciting the curiosity of others like me who might be tempted to open the way and doom our whole world in doing so. Though not all the peoples of the Snow Alliance are of dwarven stock, all share, more or less, in the dwarven sense of honor, and I am satisfied that they and their descendants will keep their word.*

*I shall now exercise greater care, and step away from further interplanar travels. As per my sister's request, I will return to Telema with my experimental Gate and begin teaching the new generation of elves.*

## Location

Found in the library in the Ruins of Telema.