EQ2 FURNITURE



Total items rewarded from The Beginning of the End?: 1
Books
a charred book
This item can be placed on the floor in any house type.

This book seems to have charred edges, and although it seems rather old, it still seems to give off a faint smell of singed leather. Thumbing through the pages, you notice that a few loose notes are hidden inside the pages, that appear to be transcripts.

TREASURED
LORE  NO-TRADE

Quest reward from [200] The Beginning of the End? (Miscellaneous), started by Al'Kabor in The Sundered Frontier (1878, -295, 3478) or by Dartain in The Sundered Frontier (1878, -295, 3478).

Purchased from Indis Surion in Qeynos Capitol District (702, 82, 129) or Navarius Orvalis in The City of Freeport (10, -7, -134) or Piritta Silvarri in Greater Faydark (151, 109, 175) or Lorekeeper Drelin in Thurgadin, City of the Coldain (475, -212, 261) or Alhuurn Khalen in Myrist, the Great Library (177, -5, -26) or Beata Sringer in City of Fordel Midst (735, -9, -744) for 78c.

Discovered on 12 Oct 2010 at 9:44:19 PDT.
...here in my research. I found more examples of the symbol with the followers of Cazic-Thule, near the temple dedicated to him. It seemed to me that they certainly attached some significance to the symbol, perhaps believe it as a representation of the very temple itself. This is not surprising - it does resemble a similar structure, and I could see how they might come to that conclusion, with their simplistic thinking. I have to wonder, however, how it came to them in the first place. Was it passed to them by Cazi...
...ough finding it was a stroke of luck. I believe that while his research is sound on the symbol we collaborated on, I will keep this piece to myself. There is no point in sharing all of my knowledge with him, although it is imperative that I convince him to do exactly that for me. The writing on this is strange, and will take some time to decipher, but I am amazed at how clearly it represents the symbol within the texts. If I can properly decipher this, I might be able to learn the nam...
...zment, it was right there in front of me. I chastise myself for not having put the connection together before, but the halls of Erudin display this symbol prominently. I find it strange that two distinct groups half a world away from one another could be using the same symbol. I wonder more, then, what the origin of this symbol is, and even more so, what the significance of it could be. I find it implausible, then, that the cultures developed these symbols on their own, without some outside influence. Whether they were handed it, found it and adopted it, or an unseen hand guided its development in bot...
...uch of the research I had done would be wasted, if not for this stone slab. I've only managed to translate a portion of it, with the help from the manuals I found in the libraries of Odus. It's clear to me that this is called the Rune of Severing, although what it's significance is to my research is still a mystery. But severing what? And importantly why would such a symbol find its way to the intelligent Highmen and the savage lizard creatures of Cazic-Thule? One thing I am certain of, however, is that it does fit with the other runes that Everling and I have bee...