For it does tell of a time of ill when magics were blended and cataclysms struck, the natural balances thrown askew when powers gathered in interactive synthesis whose exponential multipliers overwhelmed even the most masterful of sorcerers.
The Sword, Scroll, and Stone of modern time serve to channel the magics to their elemental streams and obviates the inadvertent synthesis that wreaked such havoc in ages of distant past.
Let this codex of ancient scrolls be seen by eyes wise to their own cupidity, for the texts described here do play in pernicious way upon the flaws and foibles of human character, and only they who have mastered themselves will find they can master the content of these ancient scrolls.
Forewarned, forearmed, tis said, but ye who venture into these murky depths do so
