DeepShadow of FoS wrote:For the bracelet:
[The moon-at-arm great knowledge gives
So the ring of spell storing must have a spell that reveals some kind of information? Some kind of divination spell? A magic mouth? Something that might reveal the location of what is below?
Collected lore of all that lives
To plumb the secrets of the dead
Okay, so there's some collected information from the living on how to capture "the secrets of the dead". "All that lives" is vague, it could be everything that currently lives, or "all that lives" as in, "all that survives" some sort of catastrophe, so maybe living apprentices or somebody else that "survives" after the lich's demise.
Its moonlight shine upon your bed
Moonlight and bed makes me thing about night, sleep, and therefore dreams. Assuming "its" refers to the moon-at-hand (and therefore the ring), the ring may contain a spell that will lead to a repository of the collected lore of the living, which will then be needed to find the secrets of the dead. Presuming we'll need to access one of the secrets of the living to find the secrets of some dead person. As "collected lore" might be metaphorical, that could refer to memories (so the memory libraries Castle Avernus, but that is only the living in Darkon) or perhaps dreams (so the dream stream or the Nightmare Lands).
So if we take everything from above, the ring of spell-storing will either show how to get to the collected lore or provide a way, though it might require sleeping. The most probably repository of all the collected lore is in the Plane of Dreams (or the Nightmare Lands.)
The secrets of the dead... could that refer to the location of the phylactery? Or perhaps his spell book?
Maybe it will somehow access the dreams or memories of somebody whom knew the lich in life such that the lich's secrets might be revealed?
