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[3] Elven Artifacts
[3.8] Elven Artifacts VIII
[3.8] ELVEN ARTIFACTS VIII
Elven Artifact
[This book on Elven Artifacts details the Flask of Lillandril, an ancient flask with the ability
to absorb magic. The Flask was suppsedly shipwrecked with its founders off the coast of Stros
M'Kai sometime during the 1st Era.]
[...] of Lillandril, a magical flask discovered during the 1st Era of Tamriel (c. 1E470) by a
group of Elves living in Lillandril, a port city on the Northern shore of Summerset Isle. Upon
learning that the flask had the marvellous property of being able to absorb magic of any
persusasion, the founders realized their importance in the world and spread word of their
discovery.
They performed various favors for the Barons of Summerset Isle, keeping the magical powers
of the Wood Elves of Valenwood in check.
Eventually the founders, worried that Wood Elf assassins may kill them and take the flask,
left Summerset Isle for the City of Daggerfall, in High Rock, where they hoped to buy their
safety from the Clan Direnni, to live in secret, protected by the Direnni.
While sailing from Summerset to High Rock they were ahipwrecked on the coral reef along
the southern coast of what is now Stros M'Kai. The founders were killed and the Flask of
Lillandril was lost.
Stories of the flask have appeared over the ages, but it is still believed by many that it is lost
somewhere on the island of Stros M'Kai.
Reference linking the island to the flask occur in manuscript fragments on unknown but
ancient origin held in the private library of Kuric Dexian at Sentinel. One piece, the Lagan
Text, has symbols (reproduced above) which could be interpreted as map references. This has
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