Deed of Skjella

The book tells the story of Skjella, founder of the Skejldar clan and mother to a daughter who would later be known as Flamma the Scalding. As the story would have it Skjella came from a people of prodigious temper who were said to grow larger the angrier they got. An ability she displays often when danger or insult is aimed in her direction. She had the idea that they ought not sit atop a mountain farming, herding and drinking but that they should live as conquerors of the sea!

So against her family's wishes she gathered the strongest she could and struck east, until they reached the ocean. That very point of land where she first set her foot into the water has never frozen since, though it is now lost. She performed many feats of strength, bravery but also cruelty before perishing while saving her warriors from the jaws of a great sea serpent. Legend says that she was not devoured but rather drifted ashore on the very place where she first met the sea and that whoever finds her resting place shall find not only bones but also will learn the secrets of her ability if they can best her spirit in a contest.

Scribbled throughout the book are comments and notes by what seems at least two previous owners who have begun the search for this fabled resting place. It is clearly along the coast somewhere and the two speculate that it should be on the eastern one. They further speculate that since it has yet to be found, as far as anyone knows, it is hidden somehow - if it be by a spell or perhaps a cave revealed by the tide is not clear. A rhyme has also been written down at the very last page: All the things of pain and fury I've painted in red. All the things of heart and home I painted with gold instead. And eternal rest of mine will be black it is said.