Into the Squall (storyline)/Library of Biblia Abuzz About Storm Activity (vignette)

Library of Biblia Abuzz About Storm Activity

Recent reports of unusually powerful storms in the seas east of Ornath have stirred the Scribes of Biblia into a flurry of activity, and sent them scouring their legendary archives for insight into the tempests' origin and nature. Unfortunately, the famously contentious scholars have thus far been unable to come to a consensus on an explanation, and further, cannot even agree which of the Library's Arcana would be best suited to resolving the mystery.

The Scribes of the Aerologium, the Arcanum devoted to the study of weather, insist that the storms are purely meteorological in origin, while the Chronurgium, the Arcanum dedicated to the study of teleportation magic, fervently argues that they are the by-products of rogue chronomagic.

A lone Scribe from the Lost Codex, the Arcanum devoted to the rediscovery of forgotten knowledge, has been raising eyebrows with her assertion of an altogether different cause of these storms -- the return of contact with long-forgotten lands to the east.

The people of these lands were known to be the purveyors of powerful weather-related magic in ancient times, powerful enough to summon and even wield storms such as these, but their existence has escaped all written record, and is openly derided by many of the Library's most senior Scribes.

Nonetheless, numerous Scribes suspect there is some truth to this theory, as the Library's Ephus has been witnessed in conclave with their official representative from the Chronomages, engaged in some reportedly quite animated discussions, the contents of which have been protected from scrying or even run-of-the-mill eavesdropping.

Whatever their cause, the storms are only growing in strength and frequency, and, by all accounts, their progenitor will make themselves known one way or another.