End of the Beginning and the Beginning of the End

"Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. For them are the catacombs of Westmeath, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. They climb to the towers of ruined castles, and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in Faerun. The haunted wood and the desolate mountain are their shrines, and they linger around the sinister monoliths of ages past. For they will never see what I have seen until, like me, it is far too late. For you see, in their house at the Farthest Realm dead entities wait dreaming."

-From the last page of the Memoirs of Dr. Allum Stahl

as read from the vault of Ganrahast,

Royal Magician of Cormyr and chairman

of the esteemed College of War Wizards