Important: The following screenshots are from the game Thief Gold and are done using Thief Enhancement Pack, so they may look somewhat different from the way your game appears.
M16b01azr[]
Description: One of the mages' books of correspondence (the far left book)
Location: on a table
- Mage's Keep, the Library
Mage Verlin, Azaran's interest in Necromancy has not diminished, despite his banishment. His study of the black arts continues at his spire in Dayport. We fear that his experiments with the reanimation of rats and insects will lead to more disturbing depths. He has even endeavored to recruit others on a crusade to recover The Book of Ash. The Book of Ash must remain a thing of the past. Azaran's ambition has blinded him to this, and he has proven himself a threat to our existence. His expulsion has only made him more resilient. It is the decision of the Inner Circle that greater measures be taken to correct this matter. Archmage Corino
M16b03earth[]
Description: Some poetry based on the beauty of Earth Magic
Location: on a table
- Earth Tower, The Foyer
Cool earth wraps tightly around us. Constrictive veins of tower tunnels caress beating heart of grinding rock. In mastery of my element, I leap from stone to falling stone. Boulders float as feathers. - scribbled poetry, Adept Aroun's notebook
M16b04fire[]
Description: A review of a recent incident in the Fire Tower
Location: on a table
- Fire Tower, The Foyer
To Adept Al-Hayr, Lt. Scarle disobeyed Capt. Regalio's specific orders and ventured into the Tower of Fire. Needless to say he was ill prepared to deal with the trials of flame and lava that await all entrants. The charred corpse was brought to the laboratories where it will be put to good use. The fire can cleanse us, but it is not for the Commons. See to it that this incident serves as an example to others. -Archmage Kahmin Ramin
M16b05water[]
Description: A chapter from the canon book of the Water Mages, (the book in the middle)
Locations: on a table
- Mage's Keep, the Library
Mastery of Water requires that you return to the ways of your beginning. For nine moons you lived in Water, and then were born to a world of Air and Earth. You have forgotten your past but we will teach you to remember. Put away mortal thoughts of breath and discover the ways of the sea. Do not walk the path with your limbs; instead allow your body to flow within it and become part of it. Until you have gained full mastery over Water, return to the Air, oh adept, and cherish its protective succor. In time you will feel the warm embrace of Water, traversing the entire system without need of breath. - The Book of Coral and Scale 7:12
M16b06creed[]
Description: A passage from The Order of the Hand's creed
Locations:
- on a table, in a lower level room
- Mage's Keep, the Library
- on a table in the mess hall
- Mage's Keep, second floor
So like we once were, are these who now inhabit this land. They are the chrysalis that shall become. We have adopted those few who have shown potential for enlightenment. -from the notes of Archmage Garod's Prophecies
M16b07tali[]
Description: A papyrus containing the Mages Council's decisions about the Water Tower accident
Locations: on a table
- Mage's Keep, the Library,
Notes from council session of the Inner Circle - Due to a disastrous experiment by Archmage Jabu Ibn Lani the Water Tower will be closed until further notice due to flooding. All future experiments using water elementals are forbidden by mutual consent of the Inner Circle until we can devise stronger wards. - Our keep must remain unified and maintain tradition. Each Tower holds the key of another to maintain the Doctrine of Trust. Since the key to the Tower of Water was lost controlling the accident, the fire mages have no symbol to guard. Therefore the fire mages shall keep the key to the chamber in the Central Tower that holds our treasured possession. The key to the Tower of Earth shall remain in the Tower of Water, since the water mages are the only ones who can survive entering the flooded areas. - Archmage Kreos
M16b08exit[]
Description: The diary of one of the adept mages
Location: on a shelf, in the laboratory, Mage's Keep, The Dungeon
I can finally get back to work, my apologies for being behind schedule on the new round of vivisection. The workmen have finally cleared out, having just finished walling up the last main entrance to those infernal sewers. The old sewers are still largely unmapped, but present too much of a security risk to be left. I find it amazing that they reach back to the city despite our distance from it. There is still the one secret entrance that we can use to traverse the sewers. The guards that patrol it will deal with anything unfortunate enough to struggle out of that muck. - Adept Haseki Beyzar
M16b09medal[]
Description: Captain Regalio's diary
Location: on a table in Captain Regalio's bed room
- Mage's Keep, third floor
Recovering the golden medallion of Saint Burringden will reward all the sweat I put into the endless hunt for those damned talismans. By selling it I will surely make some profit off of this ordeal. In all my years of service to the Hand I have never seen their efforts so thoroughly stymied. It's almost as though one of their own had taken and hidden the talismans so completely that not even the archmages can find them. - Capt. E. F. Regalio
M16b10shp[]
Description: A letter from Adept Haseki Beyzar to Cellarer Abrucha about a shipment of goods and animals for experiments
Location: on a table, in one of the cellars
- Mage's Keep, first floor
Cellarer Abrucha, We urgently need the chemicals last requested. Two days hence we'll be sending young Lucca to the city. Have one of your helpers accompany him. Also, see if you can add 3 goats, a camel, and a burrick to the animals gathered for the next round of experiments. - Adept Haseki Beyzar
M16b11tower[]
Description: A notice from the arch mage to all the personnel
Location: on a table, in one of the cellars
- Mage's Keep, first floor
Notice to all servants and guards, Herein let it be known that the four towers of MageKeep are sacrosanct and thus off limits to the Commons. Only those Adept may enter. Guards may enter the tower foyers on business, but may not proceed upwards. - Archmage Ibn Al Haroud
M16b12pain[]
Description: An excerpt from The Book of Paths, regarding pain.
Location: on a torture rack
- Mage's Keep, The Dungeon
To read these words is to know pain. To know pain is to live in fear. To fear is to travel the false path. You must face your fear to see the truth. The truth is that there is no pain. To know this truth is to walk the enlightened path. -The Book of Paths 6:13
M16reward[]
Description: The verses that describe the location of the real Earth Talisman
Locations:
- on a table
- Mage's Keep, the Library, first floor (the right end book)
- on a pedestal near the staircase door
- Central Tower
Eight old men up in a tower Eight old men, only one with power turn away from the hand with the sword count seven and find your reward
Unused[]
The following texts are associated with this mission but cannot be found in game.
M16b02air[]
Description: An idea about the air elementals
Air elementals often speak to us by extinguishing certain lights in a sequential pattern. It is important that we study these patterns so that we may understand the wisdom of their message. -The Inner Circle.
M16b13open[]
Description: This is the Ritual of Opening which shows the right tower pattern the player must follow, to gain access to the Central Tower
Instructional treatise: Listen well, oh novice, to the lore of your elders. The Ritual of Opening shows the way and the true path. We use the ritual as the ceremonial guide for all our work. The guarding wards and our wondrous towers all lock using this, the natural order of the elements. The Ritual of Opening Dark waters surged flooding the world as they bore life, Hard earth then rose giving substance and strife, Storm breath blew binding the land in halos of wrath Last came raging flames cleansing minds for the final path. --Inner Circle
M16b14emerg[]
Description: Probably the original design note informing Garrett about the situation with the Water Tower
The Tower of Water has been closed due to recent disasters. None may pass by orders of the Inner Circle. All important work from this tower has been moved to the Central Keep. --Inner Circle
M16b15lock[]
Description: Another note regarding the Ritual of Opening
At night the four towers are locked and unlocked by the Elemental Tower Keys. None may enter or exit except by following the order of the Ritual of Opening. The keys must be gathered, one from each tower, in the order the Ritual proscribes. Each Tower Key unlocks the next tower till all are open and the path is once more clear. --Inner Circle