The Spellweaver-Wandmaker studied the odd parchment and the seal on the vellum. The seal on the rolled parchment was made of a blue gooey substance that was quite hard. Lettering was etched or burned into the blue material. The increasingly familiar runes appeared above and below the four characters.
On either side of the four characters the runes were reversed.
Ǿ ∞ Ǿ
∞ Ǿ∞ XIII ∞Ǿ∞
Ǿ ∞ Ǿ
Yannuvia peered at the runes for a time. He touched Knock Wand to the seal and muttered “Cow vine cool ledge.” The seal crumbled. A hologram of the runes remained where the seal had been. The ghostly runes rose into the air and flickered an odd reddish color above the Spellweaver-Wandmaker. Yannuvia unrolled and touched the parchment with the red and blue tipped wand and said, “Hairy True Man.”
Piara, Clouse, Inyra, and Kirrie wore the amulets with Sibling Stones, four small purplish artifacts that mimicked the effects of Omega Stones. Yannuvia, four-armed Carcharian Bluuch, Mender Fisher, Duoth leader Mose14, and Ranger Jonna carried Omega Stones. The presence of the four siblings activated Read Magick and all effects of the Omega Stones.
Yannuvia then began, “The scroll is titled ‘the Gathering of the Thirttene Friends.’ It speaks of the Tree Shepherd of Green Vale and one referred to as the Nameless Enchanter of Thynna.”
“Spellweaver…I mean, Wandmaker, have you heard of such a person? We were taught the Thirttene Friends have always stood on the hillock in Green Vale. I’ve seen no changes in them in my thousand years,” the elder Dienas asked.
“Elder, I have not heard the name. As to the Thirttene Friends, I suppose that they had to have a beginning. Else the Tree Shepherd has provided us a bit of fiction,” Yannuvia replied.
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