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On the Fall of the Netherese Empire

This is a particularly old and decrepit looking book. It takes Wash far, far too long to come across anything that even remotely mentions history going back that deep in the past. There are a lot of scholarly assumptions about how the Netheril fell over a thousand years ago, but one researcher's notes make reference to an ancient spell called "Karsus' Avatar." Experimental in nature, it was supposed to be an arcane force unlike any other. It allowed the user to alter the very disposition of reality. At the moment of the spell's completion, it was said that it would be able to turn a human into a god, just by following through with the incantation.

The ingredients and components are highly speculative, but where Wash goes to find out more about the spell, it seems that the pages of the book have faded away beyond comprehension. Perhaps it's for the best, as this spell was powerful enough to cause a ripple in realty that quite possibly ended the Netherese. Some of the parts following that piece start to delve into theoretical outcomes. This author believes that the spell tore a hole into this world and sucked out the souls of every living creature in the Netheril, never to return again.

The spell, too powerful for any one human to ever conceive of, gave rise to Mystra's Covenant. An agreement to protect the world from dangerous catastrophe, she spun the Weave in a way that prohibited the ability of anyone bound to a plane she could see from ever going beyond a certain power limit, created fatigue in the hearts of wizards that allowed them to only cast so much before becoming fatigued, and erased all traces that she could of Karsus' Avatar in this world and any other. It was a mistake to let humans get this far in their search for the arcane, and one could probably believe that Mystra thought of this tragedy alone as one of her biggest mistakes.