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Kentinal
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Posted - 14 Apr 2014 :  05:01:32  Show Profile Send Kentinal a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Well there certainly is merit in concept of members of each race forming a secret order of high magic to collect the knowledge and have a library available for when/if new members joined the order. The Order of Nether Readers The plan could have been establishment of something like Candlekeep, where only the few knew about the most secret of the secret.
If such a group not as nations wrote the scrolls, clearly long term plan did not work. The story of great power was discovered or was leaked. The elves clearly were not happy about them for example.
The known lore says two sets, while there might be more none have been added to lore and most still missing.

"Small beings can have small wisdom," the dragon said. "And small wise beings are better than small fools. Listen: Wisdom is caring for afterwards."
"Caring for afterwards ...? Ker repeated this without understanding.
"After action, afterwards," the dragon said. "Choose the afterwards first, then the action. Fools choose action first."
"Judgement" copyright 2003 by Elizabeth Moon
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Nicolai Withander
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Denmark
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Posted - 14 Apr 2014 :  11:57:34  Show Profile Send Nicolai Withander a Private Message  Reply with Quote
If you wanna go with the "three" set theory, maybe The Tablets of Pharyssolnyth is actually the third set?
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Barastir
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Brazil
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Posted - 14 Apr 2014 :  12:16:19  Show Profile Send Barastir a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by hashimashadoo

I'm unsure but when in tree form, the magic of the scrolls was tailored to elves (and I vaguely recall something about gnomes being able to glean secrets from it too) so the netherese wouldn't have been able to learn that kind of thing from it which is why, in the adventure where the tree is destroyed, the shadovar stole it and were trying to tailor it for human understanding.


It is not clear, in the Grand History reference, if the gnome who took a glance at the scrolls and learned illusionism magic made it before or after the scrolls were transformed into a tree.

"Goodness is not a natural state, but must be
fought for to be attained and maintained.
Lead by example.
Let your deeds speak your intentions.
Goodness radiated from the heart."

The Paladin's Virtues, excerpt from the "Quentin's Monograph"
(by Ed Greenwood)
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