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Runestones
Dwarven script with staying power
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and to rcord tales ofgreat events and deeds
of valor. They may be inventories of the
wealth of a band, or private messages which
would be meaningless to all but a few
knowledgeable individuals.
One stone was found in a labyrinth of
dwarven caverns cut into a mountain range,
serving as a very plain warning
who knew the script - to those
of a pit trap just
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beyond. Another, somewhere in the same
abandoned dwarf-halls, is reputed to hold a
clue to the whereabouts of the hatnmer of
thunderbohs once borne in the Battle ofthe
Drowning of Lornak.
"But you," Elminster said, looking inno-
cntly up at the smoke rings slowly rising in
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the evening sky above his rocking chair,
"will as usual be most interested in trea-
sure." I made him another drink, and in
silence we watched the fireflies play around
the garden fountains. I waited, and finally
he spoke. "Apart from those stones that are
treasure maps usually directions hidden
in those cryptic- verses people write when
they think they're being clever a few
stones are themselves magical, or - adorned
with gems."
Later meetings with Elminster yielded
three examples of "treasure-map" stones
(the text from which is reproduced here),
and two examples of magical stones: a
record in the Book ofPassing Years that
mentions a runestone that functions as an
atow of direcrion, and almost forty refer-
ences in the folk tales and ballads ofthe
northern Realms to runestones that spoke
(via a magic mout spell) when certain
persons were near, or when certain words
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