Editing Diamond Throne (section)

===Mystic Secrets... Revealed!===
''Diamond Throne'' accumulated a few splatbooks in 2004. Mike Mearls did ''Mystic Secrets'', that it "draw logical conclusions from the tone and feel of the core book". To put it politely, much here constrains ([[skub|at least]]) the mysteries of the Diamond Throne.

''Mystic Secrets'' offered that runechildren become runechildren because of a backstory, including REVENGE. It further proposes a [[Star_Trek|Spock Goatee Universe]] runechild, Herald Of Annihilation, serving the Dark. In the spirit of ''The Nexus'', it outlines three magical settings. These are: Bone Cathedral, an ancient meeting-place within the ribcage of a dead dragon; Infinite Library, which stores in manuscript form all the Akashic Memory; and Roof of the World, on "Arathamis" on the Bitter Peaks, with awesome ''teleport'' powers.

If runechildren can be made from some past trauma this implies (further) they are not messianic forces of good, but are branded by some powerful outside force for its own shits n' giggles. The Herald herein joins the Dark Champion and the Darkbond, maybe superceding both. As a creature of the Dark, he (further) marks the dramojh as not being of the Dark intrinsically. The dramojh perhaps fought the very undead they'd raised themselves in Verdune; and was Vahr of Verdune - <cite>Legacy</cite>, 122 - a Herald?

Arathamis vies with Herrosh as the tallest of the Peaks, but maybe that's its dragon name. Within this mountain, the Hall of Kings has several portals to Verdune... which is interesting in that Verdune was to be the NON magical realm of this continent until the dramojh got there, contrast Thartholan.

Above all (as it were) The Infinite Library is structurally incompatible with the lore of akashics, which is ''pre''-literate; and one must wonder about something so powerful here. The DM may wish to limit its scope, say to Terrakal only. Or is it another plane in conjunction?

Your mileage with ''Mystic Secrets'', to sum up, will vary. A lot.