Arimas' and Johan's Findings

As with the other recent findings, this information has been added to the one comprehensive post concerning the party's actions in the Master's Tower: see 30 Minutes.

After staunching his wounds, Johan decides to delve into one of the tomes found by Arimas and Bruno: The 12 Towers. This book describes twelve stone towers that were constructed by the Sidhe 2000 years ago. The text focuses on the locations, overall construction, and the present condition of the towers. Information regarding their purpose (if any) is not given. One of the last pages of this tome contains a diagram. A summary of the contents of this tome can be found here (MS Word) or here (pdf).

Earlier, when Arimas was pouring over the book that was left open on one of the benches in the alchemy lab. "I wonder if there's any information in here regarding the cloning bodies or turning a different body into a Lich and then transferring one's essence into it?" thinks Arimas. After reading a bit, he finds that, no, there is no discussion as to the in's and out's of becoming a lich. Rather, the tome is a “how-to” book on brewing a Lich elixir (yummy). i.e., it is a formulary. That is the basic gist of what Arimas gets from the tome, anyhow. Actually trying to follow the "recipe" is difficult at best for him. It's not quite as bad as trying to get your cat to understand Schroedinger's Wave Equation, but you get the idea. In the end, it does not discuss the in’s and out’s of becoming a Lich.

Moving into the library to help Bruno look through the stacks of books found there, Arimas gravitates to the shelves in the southeastern corner of the library that deal with necromancy, looking for any information that might shed some light on becoming a Lich. The dominant subjects of the books revolve about reanimating of corpses and prolonging life. This set of books would be the best bet for finding something regarding transference of one’s essence (i.e., a Soul Jar). However, Arimas soon discovers that it will take some time (hours, not minutes) to go through the books in order to find what he might on that one subject.

Turning his attention to the books concerning the history of the Sidhe contained on the southern set of shelves, Arimas begins reading a book entitled "The Lost Nation of Beower". Within it, he finds the following information:

1) The seat of power of the Sidhe nation was a city-state called Beower

2) The exact location of the city is not known for sure, but the best guess is that it is on an island that has sunk into the sea.

3) Various historians have agreed that the most likely location is somewhere between the Island of Hronn, Ascoma Isle, and Arnur Soghal (the mainland). (for reference, click here)

4) In a couple places within the text of this book, reference is made to a place called “Dragon’s Point”.

In the end, Arimas takes one of the books that appears to be a grimoire downstairs to Siglan to see if he can identify in which language it is written. After studying the book for a few minutes, Siglan says that the language is similar to Frasspe (which he can read, and so can Alexis and Johan). As such, he identifies the language as being that of Ergant.