Efferil Tiltathana

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Height: 5'5" Weight: 142 lbs

When a certain report went missing, someone needed to be blamed - why not the bookworm 6th son of some courtier? In his banishment, he still sought knowledge, and stumbled across a precursor's anatomical notebook and has been studying it ever since.

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The Great Library

I'm hitting a dead-end. There's simply no way of knowing what these symbols mean, and no scholar has yet been able to interpret them. My last hope is the Great Library. They have texts of all sorts there, perhaps there I can find some way to interpret these symbols and continue my study of medicine. If not, perhaps I can at least find a lead on a new precursor ruin. There's so much more out there, I just know it.

The Physician's Notebook

Oh, I see! This book has a different precursor dialect than the books I've read have taught me - or perhaps it's simply so thick with jargon as to be nearly indecipherable - but it's clear now that it's a book, a journal really, on anatomy. Anatomy of humanoids, creatures, plants, all sorts! If I can decipher the rest of this... who needs magic? Or perhaps this is a form of magic? In any case, between my tattoo and this book, I could be the best healer in the world! The field of medicine could lurch forward... decades, if not centuries if I can translate and distill this information into something less... dense. In fact, if the precursors had this sort of information - even the foundational assumptions in this text speak to an understanding of medicine far beyond our current knowledge - imagine how else the world could be changed if the precursors have similar kinds of information on other topics! The precursor are not gone; their memories remain, and can carry their legacy through the modern world. It is imperative that I seek more artifacts. In the wrong hands, they could be lost, or worse: used for great evil.

Gods' Laboratory

I've found it! Not just the location, but the laboratory itself! It's in ruin and been looted, of course, hardly anything worth taking anymore. But the story I read back at the castle spoke of a secret hiding place, a small nook just under the stone slab in the middle... Let's see here... Oh! There's a seam on this side, if I can just... wedge my knife... anddddd a ha! What's this? A book - probably the only thing left in here worth taking, and in pristine condition, no less. Oh, is this the precursor language? I must learn it so I can decipher these texts and diagrams.

Framed!

I should have known this day would come. I'm the 6th of 9 children of some middling courtier (no one cares about the "Master of Internal Nautical Trade" or some such meaningless title, let alone their 6th child). Apparently, someone has stolen some extremely valuable (or, at least, punishable) text. If I had a chance to go back to the library, I'm sure I could find the missing book - I know that place like the back of my hand. Well... perhaps that's why they framed me. If they have no other suspect, why not the nobody-bookworm who's given every access to the library? Thankfully, father was able to pull some strings - I won't be fully banished, mostly no different from disinherited. Well, I suppose now is as good a time as any to look into that one legend, the "Gods' Laboratory". It seems so ridiculous, yet all the facts check out - the timeline, the geography... I think I'll head there, if not just to see the supposed location of that fantastic story.

Freetime

After the sword training my mother insists on, I'm tired and looking forward to going to the castle library (small though it is) and finishing that book... oh who was the author... Valloweep? Villothorpe? Volothamp, Volothamp Geddarm, that's it! That book tells of such interesting adventures. I dare not believe half of it, but it's a good read nonetheless. I've been meaning to cross-reference that one story about a... what was it... a Grung... cross-reference that with a scout report from a few years ago, see if the geography in the report matches Volo's story. I know I'm not technically supposed to have access to those reports, but the librarian knows me and doesn't ask questions. I'm certain he knows what I'm reading, but also that I handle them with care and replace them just as I find them, so no harm done, right?

Efferil Tiltathana