The Wizard’s Hand at Maskyr’s Eye
HE
Wizard’s Hand is some 80 winters old, and is named for the
vanished wizard Maskyr. Of old, the Archmage Maskyr explored these
lands, which were still new to humankind, and came upon this valley.
It was to his liking, and he thought to make a home there.
In those days the land around the mountains was
controlled by the dwarves, and the king of the dwarves was Tuir,
Blood of Helban, who made his throne deep beneath Mount Grimmerfang,
which the dwarven people had wrestled away from Orc-King Grimmerfang.
Tuir, not wanting to give up any land to these newly arrived humans,
gruffly stated that the dwarves would grant the valley to the
archmage if Maskyr gave his right eye to Tuir, right then and
there. Maskyr, to the astonishment of Tuir’s court, did so.
The bargain was kept, and Maskyr lived happily in the valley that
now bears his name.’
Elminster 
Ed Greenwood
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