Ikulu's List
This is the actual text of the note:
From Ikkulu is writt
nine are the items requ skin of amphisbaen of a pheonix, eggshell roc, paw of rakshas rukh, hair off a uni scales from a naga, tee cynocephalus, eye of turtle, and membrane wing, before Drelzna octopuses defeated.
Obviously, all those unfinished sentences and half-completed words are located on the other half of the sheet.
There was another note that was copied out of a book found in the Duchess Anna Ivanovna's library that illuminated us on a few things:
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...exploits cannot be trusted. The chronicler claims she had visited the nine perilous cities, viz. City of Night, City of Snakes, City of Fire, City of Silence, City of Children, City of Dreams, City of Webs, City of Blood, and City of Pain; but the cities are scattered over such an expanse of the world that no one could possibly have visited all nine of them. More likely, the chronicler was just enamored of lists, such as his list of items needed to wake Baba Iakulu's daughter, fanciful items such as the hair of a unicorn, the membrane from the wings of a gryphon, eggshell of a roc, etc. In all probability Baba Iakulu is a confusion of the real historical personage Baba Iaga, whom the chronicler claims his subject knew, and who is more famous and better attested. Nevertheless, it is beyond dispute that she or someone like her traveled to India and brought back with the sages the worship of several hideous gods that possessed numerous heads or faces, such as Sventovit, and that certain people embraced their worship, forgetting their native gods...
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So, with these two texts, we can ascertain that the shopping list is this (those marked with a question mark (?) are those we're not sure of):
- Skin of the Amphisbaen
- Feather from a Phoenix's wing ?
- Eggshell of a Roc egg
- A paw from a Raksha's Rukh ? (some texts consider the rukh to be the same thing as a roc)
- A hair from a Unicorn
- Scales from a Naga
- Teeth from a Cynocephalus ?
- An eye from a Dragon Turtle ?
- The membrane from a Gryphon's wing
Finally, a note on the cities: they are same in number to the items on the shopping list required to wake Drelzna. These cities, obviously, should also be researched:
