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Although I am only halfway through the writing of this work, | find [ am anxious to detail how it came to be. What once seemed only a pipe dream appears to become more of a reality with every dip of my ink quill. If | write a foreword, the book must surely follow.
When first | undertook this project, it was with no more than a compulsion to write and an intense hatred for yugoloths. They measure their superiority by the slim margin by which we gehreleths are summoned more often than they. (It is not, | assure you, dear reader, because we are weaker or enjoy servitude, Indeed, few wizards or priests are ever delighted to find they have summoned a vengeful and often disobedient gehreleth. It is a point of pride with us.) I deigned to eliminate this inequity by collecting specific information on summoning yugoloths — specifically, the public and true names that allow a spellcaster to bind them.
The only definitive text on the subject of summoning yugoloths — The Book of Keeping — i scure one. I have interviewed extensively those who claim to have read its pages (my contacts actually retrieved the
an ancient and ob-
information, but it was according to my directions). | have also laid eyes on a few torn pages passed on to me by the gnome Kesto Brighteyes.
Although I have yet to hold one of the rumored four remaining full copies of the text in my hands, I plan to one day obtain all of the existing books so that the information might finally be where it belongs — with the gehreleths. As of now, | am still looking (through others, of course) for a group of adventurers willing to hunt down the books.
Well might you ask how I plan to revise a book of which | have only bits and scraps. | obtain information by any means possible. Those who have aided me in this endeavor cannot be surprised that | will betray their confidence by giving them due credit here. | care not for the ramifications when this text is finally seen; 1 am too pleased with my choice of runners to care about them.
When first | undertook this project, it was with no more than a compulsion to write and an intense hatred for yugoloths. They measure their superiority by the slim margin by which we gehreleths are summoned more often than they. (It is not, | assure you, dear reader, because we are weaker or enjoy servitude, Indeed, few wizards or priests are ever delighted to find they have summoned a vengeful and often disobedient gehreleth. It is a point of pride with us.) I deigned to eliminate this inequity by collecting specific information on summoning yugoloths — specifically, the public and true names that allow a spellcaster to bind them.
The only definitive text on the subject of summoning yugoloths — The Book of Keeping — i scure one. I have interviewed extensively those who claim to have read its pages (my contacts actually retrieved the
an ancient and ob-
information, but it was according to my directions). | have also laid eyes on a few torn pages passed on to me by the gnome Kesto Brighteyes.
Although I have yet to hold one of the rumored four remaining full copies of the text in my hands, I plan to one day obtain all of the existing books so that the information might finally be where it belongs — with the gehreleths. As of now, | am still looking (through others, of course) for a group of adventurers willing to hunt down the books.
Well might you ask how I plan to revise a book of which | have only bits and scraps. | obtain information by any means possible. Those who have aided me in this endeavor cannot be surprised that | will betray their confidence by giving them due credit here. | care not for the ramifications when this text is finally seen; 1 am too pleased with my choice of runners to care about them.
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