The fading projection’s light clings to the rescued woman as Kael brings her through Bliss’s radiant gate. She is an adult woman with a slender build, fair skin, and strawberry-blond hair falling in loose waves over a travel-stained blue robe. The palace receives them in quiet splendor; no other companion crosses the threshold, and those left behind remain beyond the gate.
Anke
You saved me when the last walls of my world were falling. I am Anke, the Last Keeper of the Chronos Library. I owe you my life.
Anke pauses beneath the palace arch, gazing across the carved columns and open courtyards. Wonder gives way to grief as the memory of another dimension settles over her features.
Anke
The library is gone. The dimension you rescued me from consumed its halls, its shelves, and nearly every keeper who served there. Only the foundation relics may remain.
Kael Umal
You are most welcome in Bliss, Anke. I was just thinking about creating a large library here in Bliss. The Chronos Library would be a good model.
Kael immediately assigns Anke a residence in Bliss and he searches her mind to create an exact duplicate of the Chronos Library in Bliss.
Anke
This tablet is a catalogue of the items in the Chronos Library. Perhaps one day we can hunt down copies of the books and scrolls and refill the library.
With a mere thought, Kael recreates the Chronos Library from Anke's memories. An exact architectural duplicate, minus the ancient books, scrolls and tomes.
✓ Quest Accepted
Begin replacing the Chronos Library's book inventory
“Kael creates an elite team of female adventurers called the Silent Keepers to hunt down and acquire ancient tomes and texts listed in the Chronos Library's catalogue. The leader of the Silent Keepers is a woman with short brunette hair named Selma.”
SUCCESS (Great Leadership, rolled -1)
Kael establishes the Silent Keepers in the restored Chronos Library, appointing an elite band of female adventurers to recover the ancient tomes and texts named in Anke’s catalogue.
A pale young adult woman steps forward as their leader. Short brunette hair frames her sharp face, while a fitted green coat, travel boots, and a silver clasp mark her disciplined bearing.
Selma
Thank you my lord for choosing me to lead the Silent Keepers. I will not fail you. We will seek every lost volume, scroll and tome and bring each recovered text safely back to this library.
Set Sacred Rules takes hold as a binding charter: the Silent Keepers must preserve knowledge, protect its custodians, and obey the library’s rightful care. The six adventurers kneel and accept it.
Selma
The oath is clear, my lord. Give us the catalogue, and the Silent Keepers will make its empty shelves full again..
Selma and her Silent Keepers soon begin their elite training and set about the recovery and acquisition of ancient tests.
The Silent Keepers rise beneath the library’s vacant galleries, their mission secured and their first expedition ready to begin under Selma’s command.
Quest Complete
Begin replacing the Chronos Library's book inventory