DungeonsAndDragons:AgeOfWormsInGameInformation

Information which the party has discovered in game

Allustan research results:

These gyphs and items are artifacts of the Wind Dukes of Aaqa, a powerful prehistoric race of elemental beings who are said to have once dominated an empire that spanned worlds. Apparently these paragons of law clashed against the Queen of Chaos, a primordial being of the early Abyss (might have tentacles). In the great final battle on the fabled fields of Pesh (thought to be far to the north), seven of the most powerful Wind Dukes employed a weapon called the Rod of Law, that shattered even as it struck down Miska the Wolf-Spider, the Queen’s demonic consort. The Rod of Law became the Rod of Seven Parts, one of the most legendary artifacts in all of folklore.

The Wind Dukes were the oldest civilization to build tombs in the Cairn Hills. All of the other cultures have simply emulated their practice. The wealth in an unplundered Wind Duke cairn, (he says with a subtle flicker of greed in his eyes), might be beyond calculation.

The Tree & Triangle looking glyph (from the broken mirror looking thing) is the personal symbol of the general Icosiol.

The oval glyph (from the Sarcophagus) represents the hero Zosiel

The arrow looking glyph (from the bedroom of the lower level where the egg is) is the architect Nadroc. It appears Nadroc designed and built several of the cairns around here.

While the legend of the Rod of Seven Parts is common currency among bards and dreamers, few specific details regarding Wind Duke culture, history, and writing remain. Their personal glyphs are thought to be the original written form of Auran, before the language of elemental air came to be represented by Draconic letterforms thousands of years ago.

The letterforms look similar to an ancient glyph-language called Vaati, which some unorthodox scholars consider the original written form of Auran.

Vaati is an Auran word meaning “Wind Duke,” and refers to the legendary Wind Dukes of Aaqa who forged the Rod of Seven Parts. There is a book called the Chronicle of Chan which records a full roster of the Wind Dukes present at the Battle of Pesh and a general record of what took place there.

Allustan has requisitioned the book from the Greyhawk's Great Library, should be here in a week’s time.)

-- Main:KevinSeghetti - 07 Feb 2010