Almadel
(#72530376)
Level 1 Imperial
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This dragon’s natural inborn element is Light.
Female Imperial
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Measurements
Length
20.7 m
Wingspan
15.91 m
Weight
8048.99 kg
Genetics
Obsidian
Metallic
Metallic
Shale
Bee
Bee
Dust
Smirch
Smirch
Hatchday
Breed
Eye Type
Level 1 Imperial
EXP: 0 / 245
STR
6
AGI
6
DEF
6
QCK
5
INT
8
VIT
8
MND
6
Biography
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 A L M A D E L 
BARGHEST LORE AND LINEAGE PROJECT
GENERATION II MORGANA | BLACKMORE'S LINE 
"Bow before the beast. . . let it weave its strings about you, another puppet groveling before its master. . ."
T here’s a book bound in dark leather that appears upon the shelves. It is engraved with a single word in faint, golden ink that reads “Almadel”. It is said to describe the tale of a king who attempted to speak to angels. . . and placed his faith in a false god. This is the tale of the Barghest, Almadel. |
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The entry is written in faded ink, a date scrawled at the top of the page next to a short title that reads “The Tomes of Solomon”. It is the account of a librarian, Jacquelin Fraust regarding three strange books found on the shelves of the Hewn City Library. “I took up reading at a young age; perhaps even before I learned to speak. I’ve always believed that books hold a certain power over us. In the entanglement of words, we find ourselves imagining another world or another time. There are endless stories and knowledge stored among the pages, yet sometimes I get the sense that there are other things stored there as well. You see, I’ve been working as a librarian at the Hewn City Library for some time now. It is a simple, yet rewarding position that primarily entails filing, studying, and loaning books. Among our collection, we have nearly any book that one might be interested in, but our library has never harbored any books imbued with magic. Certainly, such texts exist, but the Hewn City library has banned them for many years. In fact, the only imbued books in the Sunbeam Ruins are among those comprising the Radiant Eye’s library or private collections. Over the years, I’ve developed a fairly comprehensive inventory of our books, so I’ll say that it came as a surprise when I found the tome. It was sitting on a shelf among the theological texts, its unlabeled blackened spine peering out from between volumes of the Lightweavers Sermons. I recall that the book was impossibly heavy as I pulled it from the shelves and I nearly dropped it to the floor as my arms sagged downward under its weight. It had faded gold lettering engraved onto the cover that simply read a single word; “Goetia’. I lifted the cover of the tome and found that while there were words, they were not. . . possible to read. I can’t explain it, but looking down at the black text made me feel quite faint. I could, however, make out a few words scrawled onto the inner cover that appeared to be hand written. “Ex libris: ——”. The name was somehow familiar, but I couldn’t place it. Regardless, the book was clearly imbued with magic so I hastily placed it on the shelf for inter-library transfers with the intention of sending it off to join the Radiant Eye’s collection for further study. The next morning, however, the book had simply vanished from the shelves and there was a strange black ash where it had previously rested. After that, I started having strange dreams. I always found myself back in the library at night with that book in my hand. In these dreams I could read the text more clearly and I found that it described the story of a king who attempted to bind a thousand demons to his will. Ultimately, he was unsuccessful and subjected to a thousand curses bestowed by the demons he attempted to enslave. In each dream, I seemed to make it further into the tale and I could not stop myself from continuing to read despite the grueling detail in which the book described each of the king’s tortures. That is when I began to awaken in the night. Often, I found myself experiencing excruciating pain as if my own body were subjected to the same torture from my dream. I never saw any evidence I had been physically harmed, but the pain of mutilation never dissipated even after I had awoken. I noticed around this time that my colleagues, Johnathan and Isaac had started coming into the library less and less. Johnathan seemed exceptionally paranoid and when I asked him if anything was wrong he wouldn’t stop rambling about the insects that had scattered out of a strange, dark tome he’d found on the shelves. He said they were everywhere and wouldn’t leave him be. The explanation I got from Isaac made my heart sink even deeper into despair. He described a black tome, a single golden word engraved onto the cover that read “Almadel”. He said it made him bow before the thing that emerged from between the pages. Isaac looked very tired when he told me this and disclosed that he didn’t sleep much anymore. Not with how ‘that thing’ made him worship it. Perhaps I should have felt more concern for my colleagues, but it was difficult when I found myself in my own predicament. I can tell you that what remained of Isaac and Johnathan was found in the library in the following days. It took a long time to clean up all the insects and I’m not quite certain how Isaac's body had bent into the position that I found it in. As for me, I believe my time left is limited as well. I finally made it to the end of that book in my dreams. I read about the final curse laid upon the king who had somehow survived the torment of nine hundred and ninety nine demons. The last demon whispered into his ear that it would claim his body as its own. . . and it would burn all that was left until there was nothing remaining but a dark ash. "We attempted to investigate the Hewn City Library, but found that it had burned down several months prior. The organic remnants found within the rubble are thought to represent the remains of Jacquelin Fraust, who went missing around the time of the fire. Interestingly, I’ve found that I am unable to write the name ——— without it simply diappearing from written texts. Father Herald was quite unsettled with this particular account, especially with the knowledge of the bookplate. I do wonder what other altered volumes might re-emerge from the remains of his personal collection.” --A. Rowan
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