Mondain-A Biography
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Title: Mondain-A Biography
Author: Hands of Virtue
Mondain was the arch-vilian, the nemisis of Britiannia. The Ballad of the Shattered Stond gives us a good description of him:
Long before the Stranger ever entered the lands of Sosaria and the four continents within-the Lands of Lord British, the Lnads of Danger and Despair, The Lands of the Dark Unknown, and the Lands of the Feudal Lords- there arose a young wizard named Mondain. As Mondain grew in age and knowledge, so grew his unquenchable thirst for power and discontent with mortal life. He became obsessed with transcending mortality and gaining perpetual life. Eventually he learned of the treasured Gem of Immortality, which grants unimaginable power and everlasting life to its owner. Surely, you have heard of this?
Most historians in the kingdom believe Mondain's desire for immortality tainted with greed, the moral wisdom usual to those who study the power of magic. His wishful longing for the gem became all consuming, and after much anquish, he was led to willfully murder the keeper of the gem, his father.
Mondain's name is still cursed in Britannia to this day, for anyone that turns a sword against those of his own blood for selfish gain is believed to eternally align himself with the Dark Forces. But that is a subject for another tome.
To truly understand the hatred for Mondain, you must know more...
After securing the gem as his own, Mondain made plans to use it in a ritual that would give him ultimate power. During the ceremony that was to forever bind the gem to Mondain, the gem captured an image of the entire land, save the wielder of the ritual, Mondain himself.
Once imbued with the power of immortality, Mondain used the gem as a means to rule the world-until a stranger arrived, determined to destroy the source of Mondain's existance. Having journeyed for years throughout Sosaria, this stranger's quest was to free the land and people from Mondain's dark, shadowy rule. After many battles, he travelled to the ruler's lair and felled the evil sorcerer by shattering the gem. As the essence of immortality was loosed upon the land, the very fabric of the universe began to unravel. And with the power of the gem gone, Mondain himself was eliminated.
This happened hundreds of years ago, and the stranger is still remembered and celebrated in Britannia. We would need him today, to help us against the followers of the armageddon, a threat no less real than Mondain. More recently, the relics of Mondain, an artifact of that age, was stolen during the exposition in Britain's Counselor's Guild Hall, and the theft was credited to the Followers.
As part of this collection is the commemorative plate, commemorative coin and the Anniversary bag celebrating the defeat of Britannia's most notorious evil being...
These exhibits can be viewed in the box located on this exhibit.