And not having it could allow the developers to implement such a quest as one of those moral choices: Preserve history, or preserve whatever the scroll's use will allow you to protect. Which is more important, saving the small village or returning the monastery their artwork scroll?
(Or taking the all-important route of shafting both so you can have a pretty to display in your parlor.)
(Or taking the all-important route of shafting both so you can have a pretty to display in your parlor.)
This is precisely to avoid those painful choices that I want to become a gifted mage...