Cyrus comforted Wiflor and retired to the library, where he did his own research on Vecna and the artifacts. He learned what most everyone with an education knew about the old King Vecna. He was an evil Lich king that once ruled over the kingdom. He was eventually killed by Kas, his trusted bodyguard. The Hand and the Eye were the only things to survive the battle. The lore surrounding the artifacts was very obscure and vague. It is said that the artifacts give the user a little bit of Vecna's immense power, but at the cost of the user's original hand and eye.<br/><br/>There were also some vague references to some user's going insane with power. But he found another reference to the Sword of Kas. The text he found it in was incredibly old. The only reason it hadn't disintegrated into mush was the fact it was made out of sheets of iron. Obviously, whoever wrote this wanted it to last. The text spoke of a theory that the Sword of Kas  could potentially destroy the artifacts. So, what they needed was the Sword of Kas...?