ARTIFACTS
The power and force of truename magic is contained in several artifacts of incredible power.
BOOK OF TRUE BINDS
The Book of True Binds is a legendary item coveted by those who practice truename binding.
Description: The Book of True Binds is a massive tome 2 feet wide and 3 feet tall. The book’s binding appears to be of maroon leather, embedded with silver, cold iron, and adamantine runes depicting a variety of summoning circles.
When held, the person touching the tome hears a susurration of telepathic whimpers, screams, and wails of despair.
This massive tome contains hundreds of pages of thick vellum, but most of them are blank. Only twenty pages still bear inscriptions. Each page contains the truename of an outsider or elemental of great power, even more potent than those summonable by a greater truename binding spell.
It is said that long ago every page of this book was fi lled with a creature’s name and description, but as the creatures died, the corresponding
pages about them went blank. Outsiders aand elementals are eternal creatures that do not die natural deaths, so scholars speculate that they must have died in battle, but a few wonder if being bound by the book might have caused more than one such creature to commit suicide.
Activation: A page from the Book of True Binds take 10 minutes to read aloud.
Effect: Each of the twenty pages of the book contains the truename and description of a creature of CR 15 to CR 20. Reading a page aloud summons
the creature as if by a truename binding spell. The reader can negotiate with the creature using either a Charisma check or a Truespeak check. If the reader rolls a 1, the creature will endeavor to take the book away or, failing that, kill the reader.
If a creature is killed either while bound or not, the page corresponding to that creature turns blank.
Aura/Caster Level: Strong conjuration. CL 20th.
Weight: 30 lb.
TOME OF TRUENAMING
Several copies of the minor artifact known as the tome of truenaming are known to exist. The book enables the reader to learn and, if desired, change her own truename.
Description: Bound with azure blue cloth, a tome of truenaming is a small square book, measuring only a handspan in diameter with only a few pages made of fi ne, transparent onion-skin-fi ne paper. The paper appears to be fi lled with tiny script.
Activation: Despite its small size, a tome of truenaming takes one week to read.
Effect: To each reader, the book is a perfect biography of his life. The volume reveals to the reader the most personal and intimate details about him and recounts every major and many minor events of his life. The effect of this is to reveal to the reader his personal truename.
Aura/Caster Level: Strong abjuration. CL 18th.
Weight: —.