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Chapter 15

The strangest of adventures befell me recently. It started off as a
misadventure, with the blasted Maran claiming the Scepter and slaying me
twice - credit goes to my folly, not their cunning.

The oddest creature appeared and spoke with me, and despite my very best
efforts (I am a Planewalker, after all) I could not track down its identity
nor its Plane. The lacunae in the study of Conjuration are great, so I
presume it was another one of the more powerful entities floating around
the Planes. Most intriguingly, it stated that it lived in between the
Planes, rather than on a specific Plane, and that it had the ability to
travel to other Planes - even Planes other than the Prime. As far as most
scholars know, the Prime is the nexus of all Planar travel, and travel is
possible from a Plane into the Prime, but not, say, the Positive Material
into Elemental Fire. This entity, the Eye in the Darkness, must be
powerful indeed to accomplish such.

I was led on a trip to Maethien, and then to Past Maethien, wherein I
claimed the soul of Lenais, the conjurer. By a fortuitous twist, he bore
the sleek black rod attuned to my person.

In another wakening, the Eye visited once more, and managed to appoint me
the Chancellor. Too long has the Chasm laboured without much success. The
Advisor Dartis had focused on the study of the Khar-Zhur Trees, and I have
aided in that. However, I will not follow in her path.

The Scions' primary imperative is to bring forth the Eternal Night. Yet
this is all but impossible if our foes hinder us at every turn. Therefore
our secondary imperative is to destroy these foes. It is at this secondary
imperative that I shall direct the Scions to work.

I note also that I must assemble a group - preferably when our foes are
crushed - to liberate the dragon spirit within Nizarrsh Datul. The Eye in
the Darkness had expressed a desire to see that particular place. I wonder
if it (the Eye) can manipulate the dragon's spirit in some manner...