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-===== The Codices ===== +{{tag>Book Artifact "Legendary"}} 
-//Book/Tome, Artifact, Requires Attunement// \\ +===== Codices ===== 
-**History**\\+[[item:start| Return to Items Page]] 
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 +//**Type:** Book, **Class:** Artifact, **Rarity:** Legendary, **Attunement:** Required // \\ 
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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 during the first three eras, Wonder, Darkness, and Gold. Some of them bind certain magics and abilities to the world, if they were to be removed or destroyed they could cause instability and devastation.\\ A codex grants its owner remarkable powers beyond the scope of even most artifacts. Many were created around during the first three eras, Wonder, Darkness, and Gold. Some of them bind certain magics and abilities to the world, if they were to be removed or destroyed they could cause instability and devastation.\\
 The codices are spread far and wide across the world. Often guarded by powerful indivduals, giant monstrosities, or by a nation's armies. They could also be lost under rubble or in an old library forgotten to time. The codices are spread far and wide across the world. Often guarded by powerful indivduals, giant monstrosities, or by a nation's armies. They could also be lost under rubble or in an old library forgotten to time.
  
-**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, and reducing your maximum hit points by the same amount. While the effect powered by the sacrifice persists, the lost hit points and Hit Dice cannot be regenerated. When the effect ends, you can heal the damage and recover the Hit Dice normally.\\ Sacrificing requires rolling some number of Hit Dice, losing that many hit points and the Hit Dice immediately, and reducing your maximum hit points by the same amount. While the effect powered by the sacrifice persists, the lost hit points and Hit Dice cannot be regenerated. When the effect ends, you can heal the damage and recover the Hit Dice normally.\\
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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 energy, capable of rending old universes apart and building new ones from the ashes. For what else could have created such powerful remnants of the dark?”//+//“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 energy, capable of rending old universes apart and building new ones from the ashes. For what else could have created such powerful remnants of the dark?”//
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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 theorize that the power within this codex granted the Promised the power to withstand the mighty ships of the Kingdom. Though the identity of the author of the Book of Storms remains a mystery.+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 theorise that the power within this codex granted the Promised the power to withstand the mighty ships of the Kingdom. Though the identity of the author of the Book of Storms remains a mystery.
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