Campaign Background
recorded by Shadrach, Court Scribe to Amber
It is said in the Book of Legends that Amber was born of the Eye of the Serpent, yet still do the scholars argue that there were many factors involved indeed. It has been argued that the creation of such a major artifact as the Pattern must have involved the advanced study of conjuration, while some argue that focusing and manipulating such vast amounts of energy point to the pinnacles of sorcery, and yet others venomously insist that only the intricacies of alchemical transmutations and energy cycles could lend that much power to a single act. But I have long studied the passages of the Book, and it is my belief that only a true Archmage, master of all four Disciplines of Magic could have performed such a deed, even though I be not taken seriously. The scholars mock my findings and say that the Archmage is but a myth, that no creature born could channel all the powers as such and survive. I say the Archmage lives...
quoted from "Esoteric Studies of the Amber Archivist's Guild"
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