Role

Chapter 19

(You see a series of diagrams drawn in a steady hand, with arcane notations
of the sort used by Mages.)

Khardrath's Planar Sanctum - Open Elemental Channels.
The Staff and Bowl - to be sacrificed and their magical traces examined by
the Apparatus. Do this using Pascimius' equipment. Of course, have to slay
Pascimius and other Mages first.
The Circlet of Flowing Shadows - to be sacrificed after the Staff and Bowl.

Assistant Mages will each operate on the Staff and Bowl.
I will infuse the magic of the Planar Devices with the Circlet of Flowing
Shadows.

After that, I will absorb the combined magics into my mind. When the
experiment is successfully completed, I will return to the Archmage and
report success. With further research, perhaps the Scepter may be used to
produce widespread infestation of the Prime with Ccul'gra.

Should it be necessary, gold will be set aside for a sufficiently large
Device to be built to conjure Ccul'gra en masse.

Expected result: Increased affinity for the Ccul'gra, perhaps leading to the
ability to bind a Ccul'gra Familiar. With such knowledge, to bring the
advent of the Eternal Night. Should I die before then, the device-based
experiment ought to be recorded in the Chasm's libraries and incorporated
into the Scepter for future worthy Scions, so that they may bring forth the
Eternal Night. Though given lacklustre nature of many current Scions, this
may be a distant dream...

(The rest of the blueprint is filled with technical notes only of interest
to the Mage engineering this project...)