The Thief of Toys
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The Thief of Toys
- Location
- Special Collections
(Hidden Arcana) - Type
- Book
- Interact
- Yes
- Destructible
- No
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The Thief of Toys is a book found in the Durmand Priory's Special Collections during the Hidden Arcana chapter of the Echoes of the Past.
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Story involvement[edit]
Living World Season 2[edit]
- Episode 5: Echoes of the Past
Text[edit]
- Welcome to Osbert Bleake's Nightmares for Naughty Children, a series of children's books designed to scare the snot, wit, and spittle out of them. Lock your doors, and settle in for a dreadful tale.
The Boy and the Thief of Toys
- In times woefully recent, there was a wealthy human boy named Thom who lived in Lion's Arch with his widowed mother. Thom had many luxuries, including a box of toys that he kept all to himself.
- Read on.
- One day, a mysterious stranger came to the door, dressed in tatters and with his face hidden inside a deep hood. Thom's mother invited him in and offered sustenance.
- Read on.
- The stranger told them he had left his family to search for work. He was finally able to return home, but he was returning empty handed.
- Read on.
- He wished more than anything for a present to give his son, a boy the same age as Thom. Thom's mother suggested he take one of Thom's toys, since Thom had so many.
- Read on.
- Thom grew angry. "Why must I give my toys to this stranger? I don't know him. I don't know his son. They're my toys—mine until I die."
- Read on.
- The stranger watched as Thom's humiliated mother fled to her bedroom, and he asked, "You will not share even one toy with a child who has so much less than you?"
- Read on.
- Thom shook his head.
- Read on.
- "For your mother's sake," the stranger told Thom, "I will take the least valuable and most useless item in this house." He touched Thom's arm and murmured the curse.
- Read on.
- The curse hardened Thom's heart even more. It turned him to wood, carved and jointed. The mysterious stranger tucked Thom under his arm and headed for home.
The end.
- Put the book down.
- Put the book down.
