"The door isn't locked." There was a brief reply from past it. The door opened on its own power to reveal a room with red-pricked walls. Two doors at the back wall closed shut, this room seeming to hold large arcane sigils at each wall, on the floor and on the roof. Sigils against scrying and other divination magics, and from the looks of it, this place was<em>ethereal solid</em>as well. A ghost would not have been able to trespass into it, nor would a teleportation spell permit anyone to enter the room either. Or exit it hastily either, for that matter. At the middle of it, the archmage stood at a strange set-up.<br/><br/>There was a comfortable recliner behind him, there was a large tome open to his left on a curved U shaped table, there was a set of mortar and pestle and other alchemical instruments to his right, and before him on the table appeared to be a set of three items. The table itself was large enough that there was room for three or maybe even four people to relax around it, and the recliner looked like the man could have slept against it if he chose, but instead he was standing between the tables and the recliner.<br/><br/>Of the three items set at display, two would be familiar sights to a mage. A staff with dark wood as its material and a claw like hand at its end, holding a pearly white gemstone. There were small markings in the wood, but even without a spell at use Tehr would be able to tell it was not finished. Close, but not done. The second item in turn was a finely made cloak, with royal purple in its shade, and little black runes lining the inside of it.<br/><br/>The last object was of stranger sort though. It looked like a blackened spear, but made of crystal. The dark surface had small sparks of light, like stars in the sky, but yet its ebony appearance made it eerie. It was about the length of a regular spear in its making, but while one head ended like a spear, the other one resembled a fan, sharp crystal half-circle with wave-like edge showing.<br/><br/>"Ahh, welcome." The arch mage spoke only briefly under the cover of his hood.