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Total items rewarded from A Dangerous Pet to Keep: 1
Books
A Dangerous Pet to Keep
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Assembled pages of a witch's journal

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Collection reward from [120] A Dangerous Pet to Keep (Tome).

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A Dangerous Pet to Keep - Page 2 (shinies in The Merchant's Den [Solo] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic I] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic II])
A Dangerous Pet to Keep - Page 3 (shinies in The Merchant's Den [Solo] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic I] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic II])
A Dangerous Pet to Keep - Page 4 (shinies in The Merchant's Den [Solo] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic I] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic II])
A Dangerous Pet to Keep - Page 5 (shinies in The Merchant's Den [Solo] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic I] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic II])
A Dangerous Pet to Keep - Page 6 (shinies in The Merchant's Den [Solo] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic I] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic II])
A Dangerous Pet to Keep - Page 7 (shinies in The Merchant's Den [Solo] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic I] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic II])
A Dangerous Pet to Keep - Page 8 (shinies in The Merchant's Den [Solo] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic I] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic II])
A Dangerous Pet to Keep - Page 9 (shinies in The Merchant's Den [Solo] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic I] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic II])
A Dangerous Pet to Keep - Page 10 (shinies in The Merchant's Den [Solo] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic I] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic II])
A Dangerous Pet to Keep - Page 11 (shinies in The Merchant's Den [Solo] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic I] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic II])
A Dangerous Pet to Keep - Page 12 (shinies in The Merchant's Den [Solo] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic I] or The Merchant's Den [Heroic II])

Discovered on 12 Apr 2022 at 17:07:45 PDT.
A Dangerous Pet to Keep



Assembled pages of a witch's journal
For years, I had known comfort in the fields of Vetrovia, and derived pleasure from the necrotic work that entrenched me. It was my obsession from dawn to dusk, and often times did not stop there. While others of my coven were tempted by the opulence and pleasures contained within Castle Vacrul, it held no sway for me. It was but a dim ember next to roaring fire for me and my interests. That is, until I found what it contained...
Deep within the labyrinth of caverns under the castle resides a being of unequaled beauty! A creature of rotting flesh and dark, insatiable hunger, yoked to the will of the very one he was sent to destroy! My rickety knees almost buckled when the air of his lair enveloped me. It was heavy with the smells of copper, effluent, and decay; an intoxicating mix for a witch like me!
I had come, accompanying Sister Morttessa as a favor, but after seeing this dragon -- this child of Veeshan -- turned vampire, I was entranced! How did such a thing come to be? Why would Lord Mayong keep such a beast? Morttessa didn't have the answers, but I knew others within the castle must. Over the next few days, I would return to the castle several times to speak with others. What I learned amazed me!
The beast answered to the name of Zarrakon and was a member of the Ring of Scale. During the Age of Turmoil, he had infiltrated Mayong's castle in Loping Plains of Faydwer, disguised by a shape-shifting spell. Rumor was Mayong had ascended to that of a demigod. The Ring of Scale may not have given this rumor much credence, but they assumed it meant his castle was vulnerable. Zarrakon would come to regret this assumption.
It was true that Mistmoore was absent, but the castle was not empty. Zarrakon found Castle Mistmoore occupied by one of Mayong's sons -- someone they had no knowledge of! Zarrakon's plan changed immediately, and he attacked the dhampir! Unfortunately for Zarrakon, Lord Mayong's awareness of his son proved keen. Mayong returned to the castle and attacked Zarrakon.
A fierce battle, the likes of which I'm told had never been seen, between demigod vampire and draconic might. In the end, Zarrakon was drained of his blood and dragged to his estate in Mistmyr, where Mayong threw him in a tower filled with blood as his only sustenance. It was only a matter of time until the defeated creature would drink. The dragon suffered a mortal death, but rose a vampiric dragon bound to Mayong, and now an enemy of the Ring of Scale.
Soon thereafter Lord Mayong learned of the Celestial Order's decision to rescind their connection with Norrath, and that as a result a great many sub-planes were to be absorbed, amongst them Mistmyr. He quickly carried out a plan that ensured the survival of his estate. It was expunged from Hate and placed within a pocket dimension with no connection to its former parent plane of Hate, thus saving it, but at the cost of his ascended deific status and power. It became a planar shard known simply as Mistmyr.
Mayong began to use this shard as a place of secret solitude that was nearly impossible to locate and breach. Here he kept some of his greatest secrets and deepest sentiments and stationed his pet dragon as guard.
It would not be until well into the Age of War when Vacrul Castle would start to be constructed, after Mayong's army, including his sons and members of my own coven, defeated the weakened and isolated Muramite invaders, and named the land Vetrovia. And even later still, during the Age of Destiny, when Mayong would bring a near lifeless Zarrakon to Vetrovia. He had been slain while in Mistmyr, but his vampiric-draconic heart had not been destroyed. He would fully regenerate given enough time and sustenance.
Whatever befell the magnificent beast in Mistmyr, I for one am pleased it happened, for without it I would never have had the opportunity to lay eyes on this beautiful abomination of undeath and eternal vengeance! Now to hope Mayong is never given a reason to regret it.