CARDINAL TOOLBOX
Cardinal Toolbox was the spiritual guide of the Thriff religious
community in the year 966 GUE, where he presided over a humble diocese
in a small chapel. The most important event during his time as Cardinal
was when Thriff reached its final resting place southwest of the
Jungles of Miznia. During these days, Thriff was nearly invaded by a
horde of 69,105 migrating Christmas tree monsters, but were halted on Augur
9th when Orkan of Thriff kept them at bay with a Glyph of Warding writ
in the snow. The Cardinal knew, however, that it was only a matter of
time before the glyph melted and the village be lost, and the monsters knew this as well, patiently waiting.
Orkan
of
Thriff secretly left for Borphee, leaving Toolbox and the other
villagers wondering where he was. The Cardinal went for a period during
this dangerous time without any sleep, leading a silent prayer
vigil with the rest of the populace in hopes that the monsters would be
destroyed by mightier powers. When an unknown peasant removed Orkan's
YONKed GIRGOL spell upon a nearby volcano, the spillage of magma
consumed not only much of the horde, but also the
glyphs. The pine-scented survivors planned to continue their delayed
migration into
Thriff once the lava had cooled, but that same peasant inscribed a
fresh glyph into the cooling magma, thus forever barring their advance.
Cardinal Toolbox recognized this peasant as "the Savior foretold in our
eldest legends." He promised anything for the reward of fulfilling the
prophecy. Much to the Cardinal's reluctance, the peasant asked for his
sacred reliquary, which contained a white hemisphere (half of a
scrystone).
Following
the peasant's recovery of the Coconut of Quendor, Y'Gael, Grote
Clutchcake, Sneffle the Baker, Captain Zahab, and Cardinal Toolbox sailed away with the
peasant upon a magnificent galleon. The ship glided away from the wharf
of
Grubbo-by-the-Sea and high into the sky, held aloft by the planes of
sparkling magic. This galleon met a terrible fate in 967 when it was
swallowed by the great flying
Watchdragon. While some members of the crew survived, the fate of
Toolbox is unknown.
Cardinal Toolbox lost his toolbox in the Antharia Caves sometime before the end of the First Age of Magic.