First off, the spellbooks.
A long time ago, in the world we know as PlaneShift, two of the greatest wizards lived. One was a Lemur named Bandria. She was as smart as they come and had read almost every book in the Jayose Library. Bandria was also a very powerful mage. So powerful that she sometimes surpassed the magic of today.
Then there was Klal, a lonely Xacha. He lived in the darkest, and deepest corners of the world. Whenever he walked in public he used robes to cover his identity. He only spoke to chant spells, and to talk to himself about new spells to make and formulas to make them.
One day Bandria, now 386 years old thanks to a life extender potion, realized she was getting old and her mind was getting ever more feeble. She could recite the spells as well as she could when she was 137, but the memory of her thousands of spells was wearing off. She decided she did not need all her spells and wrote a book of her 30 most precious spells and beloved potions. She constructed a large tablet that could only be opened by her and any of her descindents, and they must chant the correct password, in the correct language. The language of the Lemurs.
Klal was wondering by Bandria\'s house and noticed the tablet threw her window. He shifted his eyes left and right to see if anyone was nearby. He launched himself towards the wall and stood silent listening to even the shifting of some soil. He peered inside the window, and saw Bandria inside. She had sensed him and was now using her mind to exam him. Klal quickly figured out what she was doing and burst threw the window chanting a dwarven spell, turning Bandria to stone.
Klal moved swiftly around Bandria, inspecting every nook and cranny of her body. He lifted her up and lay her on her bed in the backroom. He went back into the living room and examined the tablet. He ran his long fingers over it, closing his eyes and concentrating to find some secret opening. He could not find anything. He went quickly back to Bandria and put his hand on her forhead. He focused into her mind but saw that Bandria\'s mind was still active. She cast a spell on them and made her mind go into his body, and his into her body. Klal was now stone and Bandria was in Klal\'s body.
Bandria ran quickly to the tablet and recited the words. A small square formed and came out as if a drawer and she picked out the large velvet book inside. Suddenly a headache overcame her and Klal had suddenly switched them back. Klal ran from the house, gripping the book tightly, and Bandria quickly casted a spell on herself, breaking the stone and returning her to normal.
She sprinted from the house after Klal, but she was too late. Klal had escaped with some of the most powerful spells ever made.
Klal, meanwhile, was memorizing every inscription by heart and decided it was time for him to get rid of his robes and take over the land. He used the spells and made an army of fierce goblins and orcs and took over the land of PlaneShift. But, because of his foolishness and greed, he accidently cast a spell on himself, killing himself instantly. A boy picked up the book he dropped and hid it in his house until his death 80 years later.
Bandria, now 466 years old, finally located the book. She used magic to scan the finger prints from Klal and figured out it was him. She went and found an old shack on the edge of a small pond. In it spells, and potion ingriediants were written on paper and nailed to the walls. Paper was lying everywhere, they all had spells on them. She retrieved them all, and made them into a book.
She held the two books, until her death at the age of 534. At this age she gave the books to her most trusted and loyal friend, Magardy. Magardy later married and passed on the books threw the generations of her family for another 150 years. Today the books are still in her family but no one ever knew about them.
Quest idea: You go searching for the books, and go threw what at first seems like a simple quest. You find old family friends and get little information. At a local bar you meet Ron, a friend of Magardy\'s descendant. He asks where the descendant is and what his/her name is, but he will not tell you for their is much grief. The person was killed by an unknown attacker. It was suspected this person was stalking Finroy, the descendant, but no one knows why. You later find who the killer is an must follow him and steal the book, or go into a bloody fight with the most powerful wizard alive- Klal!
