Connects to: 17.17.03, 25.15, 29.14.19, 29.14.50, 37.01, 38.28 and 40.06.
Also kept in the Sealed Library is this scroll, though it is said the Temple Invisible possesses others with key fragments burnt out. It records certain details about the founding of Bergolast, when the Tarrasque was pierced with six spears and held fast. But according to this Scroll, there was a seventh spear, forged from an unknown metal, which if it were plunged into the Tarrasque’s heart would have slain it once and for all. For a time, this spear was kept in Bergolast, but eventually the lords of that city decided it was too much of a risk that someone might use it to destroy the beast. So they sent it to the far side of the Shrouded Lands, to the Temple of Seven Shadows (37.01), where it was sealed away behind myriad traps and guardians.
The last section of the scroll is written in a different hand, terse and cryptic. It seems to imply that when the Tarrasque is slain, the properties of the beast’s blood will be instantly inverted. Instead of granting life, they will bring death; all trolls and other such descendants will be destroyed instantly. Furthermore, the seventh spear will become indelibly coated in the blood and made into the most deadly weapon ever forged; a weapon with the power to slay even a god… (29.14.19)
Hooks:
- How exactly was Bergolast founded? Where did the founders acquire these seven spears?
- Was the seventh spear forged from the same metal as the Broken Spear (40.06)? Apparently the Broken Spear was used to kill Tiamat. Does that mean that the Broken Spear was also doused in the lifeblood of a Tarrasque?
- Does the Temple Invisible want to get their hands on this seventh spear? Even if they did, who would wield it? Would they give the spear to the Lion in Splendor? How exactly do you give a weapon to the Sun?
- Let’s say that the Lion in Splendor does slay his nameless wife (17.07.03). What happens then? Do we get a day that lasts forever? What exactly is ‘purifying flame’?