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Tramer continued to walk though the library’s halls until he found Epotheros and Clover. Tramer approached the two and saw the book Epotheros had in his hand, Tramer took a quick look into the book and saw illustrations of humans with blue hair. Tramer found it odd that the people in the book had the same exact color of hair as Clover. Just as Tramer was about to say something someone grabbed Tramer’s shoulder, considering Tramer had not sensed anyone’s approached he instinctively unsheathed one of his swords and turned to face whomever was there, Tramer lunged his blade forward and stopped just as the tip of the blade touched the throat of however snuck up on him. Tramer stopped and lowered his sword as he saw a ghostly image of a butler in front of him “HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT!!” Tramer said in an irritated voice

“my patrons sir” the ghost said as he made a bowing motion “sir, may I ask who are gests are today” The ghost said as he looked toward Clover and Epotheros

“yes, this is Clover and Epotheros” Tramer said motioning his hands toward Clover and Epotheros. “aw, and this lively fellow here is Jon, he is the librarian” Tramer said as he motion his hands toward the ghost

Jon walked over toward Epotheros and took a quick glance at the book he held “aw, one of are books on the races of this world, that particular one is my favorite, its an original and was written by Sir Sorin Ga Zerith, truly a scholar of scholars” Jon said in a refined voice “is there any race in particular you are looking for? We might have something with more detailed information on them” Jon asked

Epotheros gave he a nod and added, "Well I do believe that is a possibility amd it is at least worth the time to take a look. We need to know what they did to capture Zant any way." He then added a warm smile. When the ghost made his apperence it slightly bothered Epotheros. He had never seen one before and had by no means any knowledge on what he should do if it decided to attack, but fortunatly it seemed to be a frien of Tramer's. Epotheros then responded to the ghost's question with, "Do you have any written information on the people of Sernia?"

“well it seems you are all full of questions, I’ll start with you” Jon said as he faced Ty “the book you hold was given to High Mage Torin by a man named Obsidian, it is one of the only books in this library I have not read, as far as I know only High Mage Torin has read it, so other than that I have no information on that book, my apologies” Jon said making a bowing motion “and now for your question, the occupants of Sernia were a proud people naturally gifted with control of water or wind, they also were gifted with powerful light magic thou only a few ever showed promise in that filed, what am I going on about, fallow me and I shall grab you the book” Jon said as he started to walk down the halls of the library. After walking for about fifteen minuets Jon stopped and faced the one of the walls lined with books, without even reading the title Jon reached up and grabbed a book “here we are” Jon said as he held out the book toward Epotheros “The Men and Women of Wind and Water, this book was also written by Sir Sorin Ga Zerith, it seems he was so fascinated by there culture that he wrote a book entirely on them, in this book contains everything Sorin observed during his time with them, thou in the book it tells of there entire civilization being destroyed, but it also tells of his time with the survivors that managed to escape to are lands, but his accounts end there, he then headed back to his home town and published his book, it is said when he returned to were the survivors had been he only found a grave yard littered with the dead bodies of the survivors, thou the story said that he didn’t find all the bodies of the people he knew so it was possible some of them escaped yet again” Jon said in a sad voice

Tramer took the book from Jon’s hand “I remember learning about this in history” Tramer said as he looked over at Clover could she be a descendent of the people that subdued Zant’s predecessor Tramer thought to himself as he held out the book toward Epotheros

“if you will please excuse me I must take my leave of you, but if you have anymore questions just yell my name and I will help you in any way I can” Jon said in a refined voice as he started to walk away form the group

“ok I’ll leave you two to read the book, I’m going to try and find Larien” Tramer said as he handed the book to Epotheros and then walked away form Epotheros and Clover

"Wait!" Epotheros yelled after the spirit but it seemed to be too late, "do you know where we may find Sorin?" He then looked back to the book and then to Clover. "Did you ever hear of a man named Sorin from any of your family members? You were ten when.... I'm sorry pehaps I shouldn't dabble into your past."
He said to her and then turned back to the book. The book led on about how the people of Sernia were prudent and proud like the elves and saw themselves superior to other humans. They were also the only people who had access to the Roman's tecnology such as plumbing after the fall of the Roman empire. It also spoke of the land of Toneria, where fire and earth users lived. It said that the two wared with eachother for many years and both civilizations practically destroyed eachother. Even though the civilizations were destroyed large groups of people left and scattered across the continent leaving a total of several thousand people on each side. After the downfall the Sernians in attempt to keep their blood line pure would arrange a mate for the newborn children, in attempt that they would create a child of pure Sernian blood. As for the light users, they were a rare occurence and were quickly placed into the noble line soon after the Dark Lord Zant had been imprisoned. Most of this blood line though was lost in the war.

"Well that was interesting......" Epotheros said after closing the book. He then turned to Clover and placed one of his hands on hers, "Clover if it is not to much to ask, may you lead us to your village. I believe we may be able to gather some clues on how to defeate Zant, and maybe even find ways to increase your power."

When Jon appeared and begain to ask more information about Sorin, Epotheros felt like he should strangle Jon, if he could or at least take Clovers bow and shoot arrows at his face till it stopped being funny. "I want to know where Sorin Ga Zerith, the man who wrote this book, currently resides." Epotheros said while he pointed at the book in his hand.

Book in hand, Ty followed as he was led to a place where the room was dark, even where the lights were lit. Tramer and the other man from before (he could only assume that man was High Mage Torin) were standing near the dark mass, apparently waiting for them.

After everyone had gathered Torin took a quick glance over the group “I wish to introduce you all to someone” Torin said as he began to walk into the darkness. Torin razed his right hand, as he did the a ball of light formed in his hand dispelling the darkness. This part of the library was very diffract form the rest, there were no books on the shelves only cobwebs and dust. Torin led the group down the hall way and into a mid sized circular room, the room was completely empty except for a pedestal in the center of the room and on the pedestal sat a large black book that seemed to absorb all the near by light. “before you lies a book written by the dark high mage Felsbine, Zant’s former master, in this book holds all the secrets of black magic, that ever existed and that will ever exist” Torin said as he opened the book, as he did and unimaginable dark power seped out of the book and washed over the group. Torin opened the book to the last page

Tramer walked up behind Torin as he opened the book and was almost overwhelmed by the dark energy the book emanated. Tramer then took a look at the page Torin had opened the book to and Tramer was shocked to see the words appearing on the page as if someone was writing. “what is going on” Tramer asked

“Felsbine’s soul survived but was bound to this book, thou he no longer lives he still dedicates himself to discovering the secrets of the dark arts” Torin said as the book began to glow “do not worry” Torin said simply as he backed away form the book, as he did a dark figure razed out of the book and lunged forward toward Clover, but was quickly stopped by chains attacked to his wrists and neck.

“AWWWWWW!! who dares disturb me” The figure said still half inside the book

“I am showing you all this so that you can get a taste for what Zant’s true power is like, thou Felsbine is bound to this book his soul has lost non of its potency” Torin said as he started to walk around the pedestal holding the book

“ow, in the void I senced that my apprentice has been quite busy” Felsbine said as he stared at clover “it was your DESPICABLE RACE!! That did this to me! But I hear that Zant learned from his masters mistakes and near to obliterated your entire race” Felsbine said in a cruel tone “how dose it fell to be one of the last of your kind” Felsbine said with an evil smirk on his face reviling his sharpened rotted teeth

“Zant’s has not yet reached this level of evil, thou is power is great he has not truly given himself over to the darkness” Torin said in a calm voice “and that may give you guys the chance to defeat him, but now you have seen what he might become if he is aloud to continue growing in power”

Tramer looked in ow as he saw this spirit coming out of the book Zant is ancient and this is his master Tramer thought to himself as he remembered Torin saying something about killing Zant’s master Could Torin really be that old, but how I know of no magic other than the dark arts that could prolong life Tramer continued to think to himself