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| description = '''Oral Histories of Faerûn: The Spellplague''' | | description = '''Oral Histories of Faerûn: The Spellplague''' contains transcribed stories about the [[Spellplague (Aberration)|Spellplague]]. The author is an unknown [[Dragonborn]]. | ||
| quote = A cracked and well-worn volume, showing passage through many hands. | | quote = A cracked and well-worn volume, showing passage through many hands. | ||
| book text = [This book is comprised of several chapters, one for each cited source. It claims to contain firsthand transcriptions of the oral histories of several storytellers throughout the realm.] | | book text = [This book is comprised of several chapters, one for each cited source. It claims to contain firsthand transcriptions of the oral histories of several storytellers throughout the realm.] | ||
Chapter 25: | Chapter 25: | ||
Cornelius and Tomelius Worthywar | Cornelius and Tomelius Worthywar | ||
Halflings encountered on the Golden Road south of Innarlith | Halflings encountered on the Golden Road south of Innarlith | ||
I met the brothers - or rather, ''they'' found ''me'' - in the lower pass through the Fireshear Mountains. They had encountered a trail of golden discs along the path, and had resolved to gather and return them to 'whatever fool had more coin than common sense'. | |||
I met the brothers - or rather, ''they'' found ''me'' - in the lower pass through the Fireshear Mountains. They had encountered a trail of golden discs along the path, and had resolved to gather and return them to 'whatever fool had more coin than common sense'. | |||
It was to our mutual embarrassment, then, that I removed my cloak to reveal my patchwork yellow hide. It was molting season, I explained, and a traveller on the road had not the luxury to shed their scales in private, as would be proper. I suspect they knew too little of dragonborn to be appropriately disgusted, and instead invited me to sup with them. Over a roadside fire, I learned of the purpose behind their journey. | It was to our mutual embarrassment, then, that I removed my cloak to reveal my patchwork yellow hide. It was molting season, I explained, and a traveller on the road had not the luxury to shed their scales in private, as would be proper. I suspect they knew too little of dragonborn to be appropriately disgusted, and instead invited me to sup with them. Over a roadside fire, I learned of the purpose behind their journey. | ||
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C: Watch that lip lest I fatten it. Only a fool speaks ill of his homeland. | C: Watch that lip lest I fatten it. Only a fool speaks ill of his homeland. | ||
Their brows were bristling dangerously, and so I diverted hostilities by speaking of my own people's ancestral home; the blighted world of Abeir, and the thousand-year tyranny of dragons we lived under - until the blue fire of the Spellplague brought us to this world. | Their brows were bristling dangerously, and so I diverted hostilities by speaking of my own people's ancestral home; the blighted world of Abeir, and the thousand-year tyranny of dragons we lived under - until the blue fire of the Spellplague brought us to this world. | ||
C: ... right. Ah... | |||
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* | | where to find = * Druids' Chambers of the [[Emerald Grove]] {{coords|-429|-3}} | ||
| notes = See also: | |||
* [[Oral Histories of Faerûn: Gith and Mind Flayers]] | |||
* [[Oral Histories of Faerûn: Paladin Oathbreakers]] | |||
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