Board Thread:Lore Discussion/@comment-24079263-20131112030749/@comment-15573488-20131112235039

Here's the book: An Accounting of the Scrolls

I'll help you there, but I'd recommend you read it whole.

''I spoke to one of the older monks to relate my concerns, and he hung his head in sorrow for my wasted time. "Did I not tell you," he coughed, "when you started this that all efforts would be futile? The Scrolls do not exist in countable form."''

"I had thought you meant there were too many to be counted."

"There are, but that is not the least of their complexities. Turn to the repository behind you, and tell me how many Scrolls are locked therein."

''I ran my fingers over the metal casings, tallying each rounded edge that they encountered. I turned back -- "Fourteen," I said.''

"Hand me the eighth one," he said, reaching out his hand.

''I guided the cylinder into his palm, and he gave a slight nod to acknowledge it. "Now, count again."''

Humoring him, I again passed my hands over the Scrolls, but could not believe what I was feeling. "Now... now there are eighteen!" I gasped.

''The old monk chuckled, his cheeks pushing up his blindfold until it folded over itself. "And in fact," he said, "there always were."''