As all know, there is a story about a fragment of an ancient scroll having recently surfaced.
I have a theory. No idea if it's true or not, but worth mentioning, I suppose.
In the Second Age, there was a mage named Allyria who worshiped my father. (Yes, the same woman who became my father's second Prophet, and is now the Lord of Eiran known as the Lily of Winter, the Kind One.) My father first became aware of her when a group of adventurers from Thellarr, worn and exhausted, landed on Landir and found their way to the outskirts of Shakari. There, they claimed to have seen the catastrophe that took over the whole southern Thellarr, and to have salvaged texts they hoped would shed light on what exactly happened there. They approached her, and delivered the tomes to her, begging her in the name of the people of Thellarr to find out what went wrong and if it was possible to remedy it, hoping that her affiliation with my father might grant her the needed lore. She studied the books for some time, my father putting a little (clearly not enough) power to the effort.
The catastrophe of Thellarr was caused when a mortal attempted to tap into the divine power. One of my own mages on Shaldir is attempting the same thing. I have used power for both Allyria and a
very powerful mage of mine, to see if they can prevent it. (If Shakari still stands in six months, we'll have our answer. Twigs crossed, everybody!
)
I can't help but wonder if our divine power is this Shard. That would surely make it a very unknown source of power, and one best left alone. It's possible that this scroll fragment was among the tomes delivered to Allyria all those millennia ago. It's possible that she did not dispose of it well enough (she became quite busy), and my mage has now found it. I'll look into those things immediately.
