Description
A notebook with a sleeping face on its cover. There are three riddles needed to open it:
- I did not write this one fast enough :(
- The answer is “death”
- “Before the first question, I am there. After the last answer, I remain. Scholars chase me through dusty pages. Kings fear the shape I might take. Name me, and you think you understand me. Yet the moment you do… I become something else. What am I?”
- The answer is “the unknown”
- “I am the lie that keeps the living breathing, the whisper that defies the grave. I grow strongest when the world grows darkest, yet I cannot exist without despair. I have no weight, yet armies march because of me. I have no voice, yet the hopeless pray for me. Break me… and hearts fall silent. Keep me… and even the doomed will fight. What am I?”
- The answer is “hope”
Per Bruce in 02-The Hag > Bruce Examines the Book, it is one of the most powerful pocket portals ever made, created by the Three Wizards to seal the 12 Artifacts. It has more than 12 pages; see 12 Artifacts.
The pages are blank until an artifact is placed inside. Each one sealed reveals a page describing it and a blurry image of the next to find; see Seal the 12 Artifacts for the order so far.
Avenj’s last words before his spirit departed were not to let Council of the Cold Veil get this book.
The Piper stole it in 14-The Piper using Song Into the Past, then Teleported away. We killed him and got it back from the back room of his basement under The South Tavern in 16-Killing The Piper > The aftermath. Theodore has it again.
Uses
- Used to seal the 12 Artifacts (by placing them inside it)
- Vibrates in the presence of an unsealed artifact
- Artifacts remain removable; you can reach into the page and pull one back out