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Love ya Evil, glad to see this back, one thing though, you've got some spelling errors, in your bolded section you say explain who, I think you mean explain how

in touchstone two it is artifact not artefact

Wow! WOW! WOW!

Okay, so, question, can I use something from the campaign I'm DMing? Please, pretty please? Because if so, I've already got a legend...

This is the sample entry.  It is not great, it is only an example.  I mostly made this up as I went along.



The legend.

This is text that can be found in a fairly common human work known as the dozen fables.  The other eleven are Aesop style tales with no basis in real events.  The 7th fable however is somewhat different.  It also exists in a slightly different form in the Dwarven Text 1001 Days.  It is the tale of the 872nd day and has Mordirian as the mentor (who obviously does not die in this version), a Mountain Dwarf as the First student and a Durregar as the Second.  It has far more religious overtones but the message is the same,

Once upon a time there where two students who studied under a wise and powerful master.  They learnt a great many things from him but they reached a point where he could not teach them any further, the first because he was not bright enough, although he persevered with all his will, the second because he was too proud and hungry for the knowledge and so could not see it. 

And so he sent them away.  The first student began a business and used what he knew to better his fellows and improve his homeland.  In his spare time he continued to study, even though the chance of him understanding any better was slim.

The second student used his vast knowledge to gain power and influence.  He too improved the lands and wellbeing of his fellows and took every opportunity to learn, but he was far too impatient and others suffered for his hunger.

Several years passed and then both students where summoned in their dreams to the monetary, where their master was dieing.  As a final task to his two students he asked them to try and solve the one puzzle he had failed at.  He said that together they could unravel the mysteries of The Twisted Cipher, a book of great knowledge.  He also made them swear never to open The Broken Spiral, a hideous and dangerous tome that he had stored only because he could not destroy it.

For several months the two worked at the book, seemingly nothing more than random letters with a series of runes down it’s spine.  The first student perceviered but the second’s resolve failed and be broke his promice and read The Broken Spiral.

For a time the power it gave him was good and it made him strong.  But soon he began to suffer bad luck and those around him suffered.  Eventually the book called forth evil forces that swallowed him whole.

It was a year later that the first student realised that to read the Cipher you had to fold its pages in careful patterns, as dictated by the runes.  The power it gave him was clean and pure and he was able to undo the damage caused by The Broken Spiral.

True power is not given easily, not is true knowledge.  The easy path is always flawed.

There really are a pair of books known as The Broken Spiral and The Twisted Cipher. 

The Broken Spiral is identical to The Book of Vile Darkness save it also allows you to use Wish as a spell-like ability once per week.  It provides the basic xp cost for this basic function but you must provide any additional xp required.  If you are using the sanity rules it is also the most powerful form of Tome of Forbidden Lore.  Every time you use the wish function there is a 15+1 per previous use% chance that it will summon an aberration or Abomination (Epic level handbook) with a CR of your ECL+4 to +6 to attack you at some time during the next week.

The Twisted Cipher is identical to The Book of Exalted Deeds save it requires you succeed a DC 35 Knowledge check for each of The planes, Arcana and Religion to read it.  It also allows you, as a standard action, to try and force nature to overpower any aberration or abomination.  Both of you roll d20+hd+Cha mod, you gain a +4 bonus on this roll.  If you equal or beat its score it is stunned for 4d6 rounds, even if it normally immune to stunning.  If it is extra planar it is instead returned to its place of origin, abominations are re-imprisoned in the place they came from.  If you are using the sanity rules it also makes you immune to both sanity loss and sanity checks.

The Broken Spiral has recently re-emerged in a Drow library.  Seeing as the owner of the library is extremely powerful it looks likely the book may bring forth abominations to kill them, and they do not go back after they have done this.  The race is on to find The Twisted Cipher.

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You can just put the entry list at the end of the OP, if you want.

Added to the rules:
* No physical contact is allowed. All entrants are equal, no matter how they can fight. Keep it fair, and I don't wanna find mtbOgre in a gutter in the morning. We keep this clean.
* Bribing the judges is never a good idea. We prefer donations.
* Cowczar likes bagels.

Anyway yeah. Let's have a good contest.

EDIT: And mtbOgre, as long as you have not posted your legend before and it is original, by the RAW it is allowed.

Yes, yes I was. But mtbOgre, if you have an idea from somewhere else, you can still use it too.