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White Elk, Black Seal is a historical account written by Amadeo Pneuma on the White Elk tribe's fall. This account was written in the year AR 143.

This book was transcribed by Catalina Del Valle in the year AR 156 for the preservation of history and knowledge.

With additional notes by Grimnirs Woldhart.

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The White Elk tribe was a barbarian lodge native to the Dark Spires region of Arelith. As their name suggests, they revered a totemic spirit that took the form of a white elk.

The tribe met its end some time before the beginning of the AR calendar. The tribe was attacked by an enormous wyrm with black scales. Unable to defeat this dragon, the chieftains lured it into their ancestral barrows, and bound their souls to seal it away. Over time, the black wyrm fed on the buried remains of the White Elk tribe. It grew fat, and its growing weight led to the ground below it collapsing. It fell into a subterranean cavern connected to the Brogendenstein mines.

After the Great Deluge, its presence vanished from the caverns below Brogendenstein. A black wyrm of similar size was later found in the Lowerdark, dead. Whether this is the same dragon is yet unknown.

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The ruined Necromantic Focus obtained from the archeological ruins of Tollidor (courtesy of First Keeper Schezalle of the Erudite Arcanum) helps bridge an important gap.

Read, The Fall of Tollidor. Pre-cordorian (by at least 400 years) human settlement. Among many other ancient northman tribes who found the Arelith isle, we read here of one of them, and from the ruins of their ancient village, a ruined (yet surprisingly potent, considering its condition) necromantic artifact was obtained.

Compare this to other ancient northman tribes of the isle, who also clearly incorporate necromantic practices: The White Elks. Within their tombs are intentionally embalmed corpses, now animate (mummies). What's more, is that they sub-divide their tribe according to the limbs and organs of their clan spirit animal (fylgjur).

Eyes. Antlers. Hooves.

When compared to several other folk accounts, such as those described in Mielikki's Gift, or as described in Olafs Saga Helga, we see that these practices are not only substantiated, but perhaps widespread among the indigenous north peoples.

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