Drawings, Diagrams and a Door

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Feldard, listening in to the Mages’ conversation with the Siswa, paused sharpening his axe and scratched at his thick beard. The Tower was buried beneath the temple? So they’d need to delve deeper through these tunnels; that suited the dwarf just fine. Most likely they’d find a way down if they searched this “forbidden area”. Yeah, it seemed that the Mage was on the right path with his questioning. Feldard resumed his weapon care, do doubt it would find use soon enough.

“So Elf, you say that none entered the area, before the arrival of the Rahib?” That seemed odd.

“Only the clanleader had the knowledge of the area beneath the temple,” responded Lihrian. “He kept it secret from his own people, letting them think that the great treasure of Elyas was lost forever. For standing in the way of their rightful return to power and glory, the Rahib declared the clanleader an enemy of the Siswa.”

Maruc paused in his rites, “The Rahib was a dark priest. It is likely, from what I have heard and learnt that he used the powers of the dark gods to call forth and communicate with the Sisters. Although I would hazard a guess that it would take him some time to subjugate all of the Siswa in the time he had swapping masters from Dentiata to the Sisters. Therefore I’d imagine the the Sisters were already at work when he arrived, else he would have been caught by the Siswa. I suspect that the Sisters were using the Rahib to futher their aims, it concerns me that Elfmaids are required in their rites, it conjures visions of ‘possession’ in my mind…”

Miklos nodded at the wise words of the priest. He passed the map to the Dwarf. “Dwarves are indeed cunning if in truth they created this labrynth, I am impressed. I’ll leave Lihrien in your capable hands, its not that I don’t trust our elvish friends but another pair of eyes might help.”

With that the mage stood up and marched into the library and one of the saddest sights of his life. It was quite obvious that the Rahib’s panthers were housed here, this might have been Elyas’s study filled will tomes of wonder. It was a travesty that the secrets held here were lost. He turned his back on the vision and animal stench and stiffly closed the door. “The Rahib had a lot to answer for, the more I see the more I loath his works.”

Feldard gave a mild snort at the Mage’s passing off of the map and the watching of the Siswa captive. The dwarf with a grumble set aside his axe and re-checked the elves bindings then settled in to peruse the map from an engineer’s point-of-view. The plan was sound, and the symmetrical nature of the temple’s design was definitely more dwarven in nature than elven. But then the pointy-eared dandies had to foul it up with their magicks, putting in spacial shifting enchantments where a well-designed staircase or lift would perfectly suffice.

Miklos had moved to stand outside the cramped study. He saw Hasan scanning some paper on the desk. “Anything useful Hasan?”

Hasan was the documents on the table. There he found on the parchments, diagrams of the elven village and the Temple on Gray Mountain. And then, on the other pieces of parchment were drawings of three elven maidens. He recognized all of them. There was Rahasia, his betrothed, and also Merisa and Sylva, the two maidens who had been taken by the Rahib.

While Hasan was reviewing his findings at the table, Nicolai checked the alcove. There, he found hidden doorway.

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