Distraught, a young elven adventurer named Elrozin set out on a personal quest to find the greatest book ever written: The Tome of Enlightenment. The legends held that the Tome of Enlightment contained every written word that had ever been been recorded since the creation of Aabahran. If the Academy and the Heralds were ever to see their full balance of power and prestige returned, it would have to be through the finding of this tome. Elrozin swore solemn vows for six days and seven nights to prove his dedication to finding this tome and delivering the Academy back to its rightful place.
Fourty years would pass before Elrozin was ever heard from again. His quest sent him into pyramids, through the forsaken deserts, under water to cities of sea elves, traversing every inch of the Dragon's Teeth Mountains, sneaking through the cities of the Underdark, battling on ghost ships, and even to the Pillar of Souls.
It was here, at the Pillar of Souls, that the dark gods took notice of Elrozin. As he slept, a shadow dropped a tome next to his still form. Awakening, Elrozin thought his prayers were answered, for the book glowed with a golden light! As Elrozin opened the pages, he began to quickly flip through the pages, but his fingers no longer moved of their own accord. Faster and faster the pages turned, Elrozin's mind flaring with great pain. First he knew a truth, opposite his own. Then the truth that stood opposite the first, but to the left of the second and the third was adjacent the fourth, but on top of the fifth that was innately within the sixth!
The Tome of Mirrored Truths granted Elrozin the written knowledge he had sought in the Tome of Enlightenment. It had granted him immortality. But it had also taken some of his soul with it as it burned to ashes in his hands and blew away on the wind.