The New City was no challenge to her. The sorrow of this city was ancient. Those who could have remembered were almost all gone and those that did took solace in the New City they had built by the sea. Thoughts of where to travel next consumed her. She could feel the pain in the world but it seemed hidden from her. As if it had been sealed away from the world. A shadow of what it once was.
The veil was broken for me. The book fell from the heavens and glowed with an eerie light. The very air around it crackled with magic. Not something to be seen but felt. It contained the 12 scrolls. The writings of the only one to have traversed the shadow temple and seen the spirit of Karsus and seen the ritual performed by the Knights of Shade and the Nexus Monk. An inscription in the book was as if it were written in shadows and disappeared completely in the light:
"Find the child, you and others have been shown the way to undo the sorrow."
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It was months before I met Inigo in the clouds, lost within them. The bear at his side looked as frustrated as he did with the place. I let them see me and he was glad for the company as we found our way out. It was then we met the child, sobbing continually. I did all I could to comfort him but the few things that brought him any solace only bring more tears to his eyes.
We spent all out days searching the ruins of the temples. The child's cries echoing throughout the area a constant reminder to us that we were in the right place. The scrolls held the answer, and we came to see that they always would. The large pillars had to be shifted, which proved dangerous in the crumbling temple. But we remained loyal to our task. At the right moment we closed our eyes and awoke in the temple.
It was not the same temple. It was restored. Monks meditated, praying for the wisdom and patience to become more than apprentices and find courage to battle the horrors that awaited outside. After we spent months presenting ourselves to the head monk and playing the games the other monks would play with the spirits in the temple we were found worthy and given a key to the temple gates and were told to defend the gates with all our might.
As we opened the gates we saw an incredible battle taking place. Monks and hero's of the realms battled horrifying worm like creatures that the Apprentices inside had warned us about. Every so often a terrifying creature would spring to life out of the acidic blood of the creatures we killed. And after a few days of this, we found we were not the first to find our way to this plane of existence. And after many more days of studying the pillars and the movements of the loyal monks and the markings on the walls, it was then that we found a way to traverse into the next realm.
