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I'll skip the details of how Johann managed to lure me in. He stole the key from the seneschal, and one night we sneaked into one of the guild’s treasuries. Inside were rare alchemical ingredients, preserved copies and originals of forbidden books, scrolls inscribed with powerful spells, enchanted items, and much more. Before us lay many sources of power and wealth, but I was no thief. At that time, Safaxer still had some sense of restraint, and he feared the masters of Castal would quickly uncover the thief responsible for such a grand larceny. He was interested only in items related to summoning magic and demonology, and he knew exactly which ones were stored there.

My friend could have taken scrolls or a staff that summoned controlled creatures, or the thick tome of a demonologist from the past, lying apart from the rest of the objects. It seemed obvious that Johann would choose the book. But instead, he did something bold and unexpected: he took two of Filnar’s Mirrors — ancient, unique, and priceless relics with a mysterious, unsolved mechanism. These mirrors first appeared during the reign of King Filnar, who ruled the city of Tatei, but nearly all of them, along with the history of their origin and the knowledge of how they were made, were lost in the catastrophe that wiped out the entire city and its surroundings.

To the uninitiated, these mirrors might have seemed like mere trinkets compared to the other artifacts in the vault, but few know that they are among the most mysterious objects in all of Eanor. Each of them looks like an ordinary hand mirror but is made of a rare blue metal called lebirite and crowned with a “needle” — a sharp green crystal. According to legend, with the help of these mirrors, ancient magicians could communicate with each other from different parts of the kingdom and even transfer small items, like letters, but only if they knew how to activate them.

Only fragments of the ritual needed to make them work have survived, and it is said that only a few have managed to get them to function, even partially. No one has unlocked their full potential. Some believe that summoning mages cast unknown spells upon the mirrors, and that the “needle” is pure crystallized aether, which, in combination with the lebirite’s sensitivity to magic, allowed mages to create “windows” to different corners of the world. Others believe the mirrors are a divine gift from Arach to his followers, obtained through a massive sacrifice.