[RPG] [FEI][SV] Ariana Anaris ~ Cursed Writings

[Timothy Collett]

Though it is something she rarely does, Ariana orders a coach for her  
trip to Ansopen.  Once in its privacy, she opens the burlap sack the  
adventurer Reika gave her—not demanding any money for it, simply  
asking that she "take the cursed thing"—and empties its contents onto  
the seat opposite her.

Carefully, Ariana examines her new acquisition.  The Book is bound in  
leather black as night, with runes etched on the spine in something  
the colour of dried blood.  On the cover, letters in a strange  
language form patterns that seem to turn the eye away from it.   
Beneath, in a much more unsteady hand and in plain ink, the words  
Dark Book of Necromancy are written.

Using her least favourite dagger, she lifts the cover and turns the  
first few pages.  As she suspected, the writing inside is completely  
unintelligible.  Turning, she pulls from her pack a scroll bound in  
blood-red ribbons and very carefully unrolls the first few inches of  
it.  She looks closely at the writing on the scroll, comparing it to  
the writing in the book, then closes both and sits back in thought.

They are not the same writing, she thinks.  They are clearly both of  
inhuman origin, but they do not appear to be closely related...

She looks out her window for a while, drumming her finders on the  
sill.  Suddenly, she remembers something, and rummages through a  
sheaf of papers, finally coming up with the one she is looking for.

The last letter I got from Delvin before all the ships stopped going  
to Beluaterra...he spoke of the undead, who he'd fought before, but  
he also spoke of a new terror, demons from the very Pits of Aya  
themselves....

If the Book of Necromancy is something to do with the undead...then  
could the Scroll of the Damned be something to do with these demons...?

I must show them to Morthwyl and Hoshi as soon as possible...

--

"The only thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart."
  ~ Miles Naismith Vorkosigan

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