title: Book of Eldritch Might 2: Songs and Souls of Power
author: Sword &amp; Sorcery Studios
description: Summon new and exciting sources of magic with this d20 sourcebook for all things arcane. Features include:Completely redesigned alternate variant versions of the sorcerer and bard classes, including rules for music-based magic. * Rules for using soul magic, a new type of arcane power that involves the creation and use of sentient spells. * Over 100 new spells and spellsongs. * More than three dozen feats, magical items, and classes. * The unholy riven, arcane angels, and eye golems -- all-new magical monsters, ready to drop into any campaign.
zlib_text: Songs & Swords
  
  Book 4
  
  Thornhold
  
  Elaine Cunningham
  
  Prelude
  
  27 Tarsakh, 927 DR
  
  Two young wizards stood on a mountaintop, staring with awe at the terrible
  outcome of their combined magic.
  
  Before them lay a vast sweep of spring grasses and mountain wildflowers.
  Moments before, they had beheld an ancient and besieged keep. The keep was
  gone, as were the powerful creatures who had taken refuge within. Gone, too,
  were any survivors—sacrificed to the war against the demons that spilled up
  from the depths of nearby Ascaihorn. Gone, leaving no marks but those etched
  in the memories of the two men who had brought about this destruction.
  
  They were both young men, but there the similarities ended. Renwick
  “Snowcloak” Caradoon was small and slight, with fine features and a pale,
  narrow face. He was clad entirely in white, and his flowing cloak was richly
  embroidered with white silk threads and lined with the snowy fur of winter
  ermine. His hair was prematurely white, and it dipped in the cen