@damnerd5 Books wander away from my library all the time. They always find their way back to me. The fines are counted in ways that may seem... unpleasant to you.
@Slimy_Alien I am complete in and of myself. In fact, I am multitudes. Yet your petty mortal mind would crumble at such a concept, so I adopt my singular guise for your sake.
@AlexiBlast An astute question... for a mortal. As one of your limited perceptions can understand things, the spellcraft of the arcanist and the spellcraft of the shadow mage are apparently unrelated. Yet in the very foundation of all that you term "magic," they are of course as one.
@DGDIGMAN2 You labor under the misapprehension that you will understand the things I require you to do. That is not so. My chosen agent will be sent to strange places. Instructed to perform random actions.
@KryptechKnight A lack of predestination. A fate unknowable and unresolved. Certain tasks require mortals whose futures I cannot discern. Otherwise the outcome I dislike cannot be changed.
@TESbenefactor The Gardener of Men does not bargain like a fishmonger in a market. But it suits me from time to time to allow you to express your wishes and consider them.
@LotusOfDoom Good and bad are mortal concerns. Everything I perceive floating in the Tides of Fate... interests me.
But I have noticed a disturbing thread, hence my search for a mortal champion.
For my own inscrutable purposes, it pleases me to allow knowledge of my powers to escape into your world. Some of that power resides in the form of Black Books, and some is placed into the hands of those called Arcanists.
@TESbenefactor A mortal sage once said there are things he knew he did not know, and things he did not know that he did not know. I am content that all the former will come to me in time. But the latter category vexes me.
@TESbenefactor In my current circumstances, I perceive forces moving against me. Outcomes that were once unthinkably improbable are now becoming likely. But I cannot discern the identity of my opponents.
@heyheyeso I have huddled under rotten blankets, observing from the gutter. I have roamed the lonely stacks of your pitiful libraries, mocking those who deem themselves wise. I have tutored you in the dark woods, sharing secrets you should not know.
@ESO_Sallymen How does one learn to breath? To speak? Some mortals align with my realm in such a way as to make secrets drip from your lips as pages from a tome. The why and the how are up to you to discover.
@ESO_Sallymen Your mortal functions are only of a passing interest to me... though the endless piles of literature about your couplings do make for good structural girding in the Endless Library.
@gerwulf67 My will? How delightful. But rest assured, you need not be an Arcanist to spread my dark tentacles across the minds, hearts, and souls of your mortal realm.
@MrBlueDesigns Your sanity? Sanity is an illusion. A construct of causality and consequence you invent to impose order on the chaos of existence. Your sanity has no intrinsic value to me. Mortals are more useful when they are not babbling incoherently.
@radical_cubes Could you do that which you so lightly promise, you would be me. Your mortal shell can only contain one small spoonful of the ocean you wish to drink.
@ValkyriesChild The structures of Apocrypha may appear as books to your mortal eyes, but they are conceptual constructs. Things imagined into existence by the minds that stray into my realm. Most of the books of Apocrypha come into existence through will. Not printing presses.
So much noise and yet, clarity. The assistance you offer may be just what I require. There are shadowy forces moving against Apocrypha and conspiracy rises in the city of Necrom.
@ESO_Sallymen Ah, a mortal who understands the principle of enlightened self-interest. The surest foundation upon which to build an alliance. Our fates are bound together.
@ESO_Sallymen Indeed, I see the pieces are falling into place. The threads of fate lead to Apocrypha, and reality you understand it hangs in the balance.
@zarithius I am aware that the gates to Necrom are obscured. The time is coming when you will be summoned to this ancient city of the dead. The place where the fates of two realms will be decided.
@to_thanalan The creatures you refer to serve as guardians of Apocrypha. Many things are kept safe there: books, forgotten knowledge, even secrets.
While few mortals have traversed the Endless Library, those few that stay overlong are... Hushed. Mortals can be so cacophonous.
This mortal plane, while peculiar, has proven useful in searching for a mortal proxy. I have found what I seek. More will be revealed when the fates align, and I require use of your kind.
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