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:: The origins of the Aradar myth are lost in the fog of folklore. Ever-changing songs adapted by the performers in every region alter the language and, so, distort the lineage of the myth until, thousands of years later, fact and fancy have become legend. Though there may be no truth to the legend of Aradar, some common beliefs held by the world’s remaining scholars give it tantalizing verisimilitude. Most songs of Aradar suppose that it is the source or inspiration for all arcane power on Aryth—the site where an elf of noble and pure elthedar blood is said to have found the spark of arcane magic. In modern poems, this elf is called Engalad or, archaically, Engal Ladai. In Erenland, especially in villages with little or no elven contact even before Izrador’s victory, some tales replace Engalad with Aradil, the Witch Queen, despite the obvious historical impossibility. | :: The origins of the Aradar myth are lost in the fog of folklore. Ever-changing songs adapted by the performers in every region alter the language and, so, distort the lineage of the myth until, thousands of years later, fact and fancy have become legend. Though there may be no truth to the legend of Aradar, some common beliefs held by the world’s remaining scholars give it tantalizing verisimilitude. Most songs of Aradar suppose that it is the source or inspiration for all arcane power on Aryth—the site where an elf of noble and pure elthedar blood is said to have found the spark of arcane magic. In modern poems, this elf is called Engalad or, archaically, Engal Ladai. In Erenland, especially in villages with little or no elven contact even before Izrador’s victory, some tales replace Engalad with Aradil, the Witch Queen, despite the obvious historical impossibility. | ||
| − | + | However, the name Aradar does share a root with the name Aradil; it’s an ancient male form of the name. Fragments of dwarven and gnomish poetry suggest it was also called elenhath miradil, roughly meaning “wellspring of insight.” Elven myths of old called it simply “Wellspring.” Some believe that Aradar and, by extension, all arcane power—is a gift from the Lost Gods, a bit of their power left to light the mortal world. “One day,” an elf ballad claims, “the gift shall cast a light bright enough to pierce the veil of Shadow and be seen in the heavens.” | |
:: Already something of a bedtime story by the time the Shadow in the North returned for battle, Aradar was receiving little scholarly attention from the archivists and scribners of the world. When the sacking of academies began across Erenland, few records of Aradar were carried out by fleeing librarians and scholars. The people needed information vital to the success of the war against Izrador, and Aradar was little more than a folktale all but forgotten. It’s generally known that the Scholar’s Tower in Highwall and the great old Library of Moria contains whole books on the subject of Aradar, but those are surely gone. In Cale there was once an inn that sported a mural of the story. There is now little way of knowing what is myth and what is true—if anything—in the legends of Aradar. | :: Already something of a bedtime story by the time the Shadow in the North returned for battle, Aradar was receiving little scholarly attention from the archivists and scribners of the world. When the sacking of academies began across Erenland, few records of Aradar were carried out by fleeing librarians and scholars. The people needed information vital to the success of the war against Izrador, and Aradar was little more than a folktale all but forgotten. It’s generally known that the Scholar’s Tower in Highwall and the great old Library of Moria contains whole books on the subject of Aradar, but those are surely gone. In Cale there was once an inn that sported a mural of the story. There is now little way of knowing what is myth and what is true—if anything—in the legends of Aradar. | ||
:: The Legend of Aradar illustrates one of the few unexpected advantages of the desperate effort to safeguard the scraps of knowledge that come trickling into the Scribe Archives in Caradul. Bits of the legend that have never before been cataloged together are now being seen with new eyes. Whereas individual stories about Wellspring seem to vary rather substantially, certain commonalities between the tales became apparent in comparison. | :: The Legend of Aradar illustrates one of the few unexpected advantages of the desperate effort to safeguard the scraps of knowledge that come trickling into the Scribe Archives in Caradul. Bits of the legend that have never before been cataloged together are now being seen with new eyes. Whereas individual stories about Wellspring seem to vary rather substantially, certain commonalities between the tales became apparent in comparison. | ||
