Piyla Rituals

In a vault below the island of Piyla in the Southern Isles, a group of archaeologists discovered ancient documents detailing human enchantment. They were left by a priest of Ghendar over a century before the War of Ascendance started. Two enchantments were enclosed with the rituals. The first was a sky ritual to give people wings. The second was an earth ritual to give unnatural strength. The rituals were taken back to Pruzer and translated by Janie Kerias. Her student Sylvie worked on implementing them. Eventually they were partially stolen by Dan Irem but recovered a few days later.

History
Over a century before the War of Ascendance, a priest of Ghendar had a vision of the future which he called Verin Teval. The priest saw the end of the world and set up a vault so that mortals would have some weapons to fight when the gods failed. In the vault he placed a transcription of his vision, one hundred godstones, several weapons made of a rudimentary form of Threnish Iron, and four enchantment rituals. Two were for objects. The other two were human enchantment rituals which he called Winged and Serpent Strength. The priest wanted the rituals to be hard to find so he buried the vault and placed a map to it on the island of Karabour. To find the map he enchanted a True Compass to lead his way.

Over a millenia later in the fifth century After Established Peace, Janie Kerias and her student Genna found the True Compass in Mordehall. With the help of Lord Keel, they organized a trip to follow the compass. Janie along with Sylvie, Jack, J’Kar Burin, Daxian Byrne, Genna, and Palo landed on Karabour. On the island, Genna was injured by the Steel Eagles and had to return. The others followed the compass to one of the island’s hot lakes. Their goal was a small island in the center, but the lake was guarded by a Siren. After narrowly avoiding serious injury they made it across and down into a reliquary on the island. They found a mural of Ghendar and two winged supporters. They also found the map. Eventually they followed the map to Piyla and recovered the rituals. Janie, Sylvie, and Genna took the rituals back to the city of Pruzer in Mordehall. With support from Lord Keel they were put to use trying to aid the Mordish Birding Society. Janie translated them as best she could and Sylvie tried to get them to work on small animals. Eventually she realized that it wouldn't work and she needed a human.

On the first of Mortus AeP 446, parts of the translated notes were stolen by Dan Irem. He fled Pruzer via the Procession of Peace and hid in Miirshire. Irem was working for the Count of Pellisberg who wanted the rituals for himself. He sent several men to aid the Thief. The Birding Society put together a group to track him with the intention of bringing back the notes and stopping them from finding their way to Pellisberg. That group consisted of The Curator, Skua, K.R., Vella and Sylvie. The Kaiser also sent an operative after the notes. She was known as the Woman in the Suit. Between the Kaiser and the Society, all of Dan’s allies were killed or captured. K.R. eventually found him in the Lord of Miirshire’s basement. He took the notes back. After making sure Dan didn’t make copies, the Society group fled Miirshire and the Kaiser’s men. Sylvie then offered the group a chance to have the winged ritual performed on one of them. They all declined. With help from some local miners they defeated the Woman and her group of soldiers and returned the rituals to Janie Kerias.

Notable Owners
Janie Kerias was the one who translated the rituals from the Elder Tongue. Sylvie was an Unamancer and an expert in the rituals. Dan Irem stole several pages of notes from Janie.

Appearances
Campaigns Supplemental
 * Silver Mists and Bloody Tides Session Seven: Strength, Justice, and Soul
 * Silver Mists and Bloody Tides Session Eight: The Fury of the Isles
 * A Thief Among Traitors Session One: Nest (Mentioned Only)
 * A Thief Among Traitors Session Two: Migration (Mentioned Only)
 * A Thief Among Traitors Session Three: Prey
 * A Thief Among Traitors Session Four: Territory
 * ATAT Supplemental: The Letter
 * SMBT Supplemental: Before the Hall (Mentioned Only)
 * SMBT Supplemental: Catalog
 * SMBT Supplemental: Sylvie Felt Tired (Mentioned Only)