ABBOT'S JOURNAL

A translation of an ancient account of the travels of an abbot from Malac's Cross, the book was filled with stories and notes on mythology. Apparently the abbot had been looking for proof of the existence of a sword known as the Guarda Revanche, a cursed blade which was often associated with the moredhel. Shortly before the end of the journal, he related a curious tale:

".... and so came I unto the Abbey of Killian which stood unto the western fringe of the forest of the Eledhel, so named Elvandar, and there was shown a fairy chest upon whose face were the runes which are common unto the elven and moredhel kin. A certain father then did turn the strange cylinders which were on the face of the chest, forming a word unfamiliar with me, GLAMREDHEL, but one which threw open the latches which bound closed the lid of the box. From within he brought a finely jeweled hilt which he called the Gaeda. This father then told me it had come from a ruin of an ancient place and since, there was much misfortune come unto their abbey and they willed it should be returned there for its eternal rest. He also did tell me other things strange and wondrous of the legend, saying a spell had been bound into a shell that would repair the blade which had long been broke away, describing this shell as one marked with an uneven surface of ten misformed lumps ...."