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- | ===== The Codices ===== | + | {{tag> |
- | //Book/Tome, Artifact, | + | ===== Codices ===== |
- | **History**\\ | + | [[item: |
- | A codex grants its owner remarkable powers beyond the scope of even most artifacts. Many were created around | + | |
+ | //**Type: | ||
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+ | <WRAP box right 20em> | ||
+ | ^ Properties ^ Stats ^ | ||
+ | ^ Size | Varies | ||
+ | ^ Weight | Varies | ||
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+ | ===Description=== | ||
+ | **History** | ||
+ | A codex grants its owner remarkable powers beyond the scope of even most artifacts. Many were created around | ||
The codices are spread far and wide across the world. Often guarded by powerful indivduals, giant monstrosities, | The codices are spread far and wide across the world. Often guarded by powerful indivduals, giant monstrosities, | ||
- | **Attuning**\\ | + | **Attuning** |
All the codices require attunement, which requires the reader to spend a month in uninterrupted study of no less than 8 hours per day, 6 days per week.\\ | All the codices require attunement, which requires the reader to spend a month in uninterrupted study of no less than 8 hours per day, 6 days per week.\\ | ||
Once attuned, the owner of the codex need not take the book with them. They can leave it in a secure location and still gain its benefits, but must refresh their knowledge through 8 hours of uninterrupted study once per month or else lose its benefits. | Once attuned, the owner of the codex need not take the book with them. They can leave it in a secure location and still gain its benefits, but must refresh their knowledge through 8 hours of uninterrupted study once per month or else lose its benefits. | ||
- | **Sacrifice**\\ | + | **Sacrifice** |
Some of these books require the attuned owner to surrender some of their life essence to satiate the dark powers constrained or described in their texts.\\ | Some of these books require the attuned owner to surrender some of their life essence to satiate the dark powers constrained or described in their texts.\\ | ||
Sacrificing requires rolling some number of Hit Dice, losing that many hit points and the Hit Dice immediately, | Sacrificing requires rolling some number of Hit Dice, losing that many hit points and the Hit Dice immediately, | ||
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She passed through the rituals at a young age to become the Arcanum Extraordinary to the Knights of the Prismatic Fire. After years of service to the order, she began her great work.\\ | She passed through the rituals at a young age to become the Arcanum Extraordinary to the Knights of the Prismatic Fire. After years of service to the order, she began her great work.\\ | ||
Though Lady Kai was a coeval of the empire’s vizier, and stories pit the two great sorceresses against each other, the only contemporaneous accounts scholars have indicate they corresponded regularly and may even have worked together.\\ | Though Lady Kai was a coeval of the empire’s vizier, and stories pit the two great sorceresses against each other, the only contemporaneous accounts scholars have indicate they corresponded regularly and may even have worked together.\\ | ||
- | //“The astute mage Kalidasa claims that there is no correlation between shadow and light, but I must disagree. If true shadow is formed from the dead echoes of a previous world, then true light must be its equal and opposite: raw cosmogonic | + | //“The astute mage Kalidasa claims that there is no correlation between shadow and light, but I must disagree. If true shadow is formed from the dead echoes of a previous world, then true light must be its equal and opposite: raw cosmic |
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When the great sails of the Kingdom of Uthasil spread themselves across the world during the Age of Darkness, conquering almost every region in Felwind, only two peoples escaped their conquest. One of them, the people of Promise, defended their shores with great storms they seemed to summon at will.\\ | When the great sails of the Kingdom of Uthasil spread themselves across the world during the Age of Darkness, conquering almost every region in Felwind, only two peoples escaped their conquest. One of them, the people of Promise, defended their shores with great storms they seemed to summon at will.\\ | ||
For a decade, the Kingdom’s ships battered themselves against the storms sent against them. Every fleet sank, their hulls ripped apart, their sails burned by lightning. No research, no oracles could reveal the source of this storm mastery. Eventually, the Kingdom ceased its war against the storms, content with the rest of the world.\\ | For a decade, the Kingdom’s ships battered themselves against the storms sent against them. Every fleet sank, their hulls ripped apart, their sails burned by lightning. No research, no oracles could reveal the source of this storm mastery. Eventually, the Kingdom ceased its war against the storms, content with the rest of the world.\\ | ||
- | Three centuries later, a tome emerged written in the runic language of the Promised. It was not a treatise like the other codices, it was a book of rituals, each of devastating power. Scholars | + | Three centuries later, a tome emerged written in the runic language of the Promised. It was not a treatise like the other codices, it was a book of rituals, each of devastating power. Scholars |
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