The Search for Forbidden Lore
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The Search for Forbidden Lore.
by *is blotted in ink*
A collection of loose papers, shuffled together in what must have been great haste.
Finding a tutor when one wishes to study the most reviled of arts, could take a lifetime in itself. All necromancers shun the company of the living in order to avoid discovery. The fact that many of the practitioners of the forgotten lore are driven insane by their magic also means that it is often safer to seek knowledge from books.
Books of the forbidden lore old their own perils. Only the strongest-willed of men can read these tomes and retain their sanity, they tell of horrible secrets, of the netherworld, and the dark nightmares that the dead dream in their eternal sleep.
Many spells for waking the dead, summoning spirits and controlling simple skeletons are recorded within the pages of such tomes. They tell of rites which can attract dark magic, list days when the magic is at its highest power and tell of places were this power gathers.
mad scholar Johann van Morte, known to later generations as VanMorte wrote the Book of the Dead. He claims to have travelled to the netherworld in his mortal body, and spoken with the dead. Driven mad by this journey he wrote the blasphemous masterpiece "The Book of the Dead". However he did not live to see the public revulsion at his work, as he was executed when he was discovered practising the art. All of the copies of the book that could be found were burnt on a great pyre in the centre of the fledgling city of Britain, fortunately, the original was never located, and it survives to this day, along with several copies.
The book itself is different for all those who look upon it; a human would see the book bound in human skin, whilst an elf would see elven skin, Written in ink distilled from the most powerful of blood, that of vampiric nature the very words themselves are sentient. They can adapt to form any language ever spoken since the dawn of time, to suit the reader.
Many of the greatest spells listed in the Necromnicon are too demanding for mere mortals, for at the height of his power, Caliph could rival the Gods themselves. It lists at length every Necromantic ritual ever practised every place where dark magic gathers and the nights on which it can be harnessed to the greatest effect are detailed.
It is rumoured that amongst its pages lies the very formula for attaining the exalted state of Lichedom, should one be prepared to pay the greatest of all prices for such a glorious transformation.
Doom-laden prophecies fill the book, and they tell of a time when the world is in ruins, and only the dead walk under the sunless skies, where immortal vampires and dread-Liches rule over pitiful mortal slaves.
It is said that any, who look upon the book, shall be consumed by a madness from which there is no escape. Perhaps the one copy of the Necromnicon that exists holds indisputable proof that Caliph's predictions are true and that mortal are already doomed to eternal slavery.