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== Notes and Trivia == | == Notes and Trivia == | ||
* Reading this book has the following effects: | * Reading this book has the following effects: | ||
** Curses you with | ** Curses you with {{SmIconLink|Mental Fatigue Condition Icon.webp|Tharchiate Withering (Condition)|Tharchiate Withering}} (your Constitution score is lowered by 5). This can be cured via {{SmIconLink|Remove Curse Icon.png|Remove Curse}}. | ||
** | ** Once the curse has been cured, you receive [[The Tharchiate Codex: Blessing]] passive feature, which grants you {{SmIconLink|False Life Condition Icon.png|Tharchiate Vigour (Condition)|Tharchiate Vigour}} (20 [[Hit_Points#Temporary_Hit_Points|Temporary Hit Points]]) immediately and also once after every [[Long Rest]]. | ||
* After reading [[The Tharchiate Codex]], you can re-read {{story|Necromancy of Thay}} and pass a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw to gain the permanent ability to summon 6 ghouls via the {{SmIconLink|Danse Macabre Icon.png|Danse Macabre}} spell once per Short Rest. | * After reading [[The Tharchiate Codex]], you can re-read {{story|Necromancy of Thay}} and pass a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw to gain the permanent ability to summon 6 ghouls via the {{SmIconLink|Danse Macabre Icon.png|Danse Macabre}} spell once per [[Short Rest]]. | ||
* As of Hotfix #6, the flavour text of this book appears to be placeholder. It reads: 'Description about Tharchiate Cypher'. | * As of Hotfix #6, the flavour text of this book appears to be placeholder. It reads: 'Description about Tharchiate Cypher'. | ||
Revision as of 00:31, 10 September 2023
 | Spoiler warning: The following content contains unhidden spoilers. Read at your own risk. |
WARNING: Extremely powerful knowledge. May include curses.
Properties
Books
Rarity: Legendary
Weight: 0.5 kg / 1 lb
Price: 2000 gp
Where to find
- The Tharchiate Codex is stored in the basement vault of Sorcerous Sundries in Lower City. You can reach the vault in two different ways:
- By interacting with the Clasped Book in the bookshelf of Tolna Tome-Monger's office upstairs and going through the portal, or
- By using the Weave Button labelled 'Vault' on the middle level of Ramazith's Tower.
- Within the vault, the Codex is located in the Elminster section. To unlock the Elminster door, you must first find the lever at the end of the Silverhand section by opening doors in this order: Silverhand, Evocation, Wish.
Text
[The pages are covered in esoteric symbols and strange runes, some indecipherable, but some strangely familiar. Your eyes are drawn to one page, describing a long-lost book.]
The Necromancy of Thay
There are secrets of life and death known only to the Red Wizards. Committing such secrets to parchment is a risk they are loath to take, lest the unworthy gaze upon them. Who better, then, to guard their secrets, than the spirits of the jealous dead themselves?
The look upon the Necromancy of Thay is to risk madness at the hands of its spirits. But the wise traveller, who can tread the line between life and death, will find knowledge witnessed by precious few mortals...
[The rest of the entry details the precautions and risks associated with reading the text, but lays out a clear path to unravelling the secrets contained in this tome.]
Notes and Trivia
- Reading this book has the following effects:
- Curses you with (your Constitution score is lowered by 5). This can be cured via
. - Once the curse has been cured, you receive The Tharchiate Codex: Blessing passive feature, which grants you
(20 Temporary Hit Points) immediately and also once after every Long Rest.
- Curses you with (your Constitution score is lowered by 5). This can be cured via
- After reading The Tharchiate Codex, you can re-read Necromancy of Thay and pass a DC 20 Wisdom saving throw to gain the permanent ability to summon 6 ghouls via the
spell once per Short Rest. - As of Hotfix #6, the flavour text of this book appears to be placeholder. It reads: 'Description about Tharchiate Cypher'.
