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<blockquote data-quote="Ripzerai" data-source="post: 3351511" data-attributes="member: 38324">In Dead Gods, a book that contains the secrets of bringing dead gods to life would be desired greatly by Quah-Namog, and would likely be integral to his attempt at resurrecting Orcus. The last chapter of the story, where Quah-Namog assembles all of his equipment on his master's corpse in the Astral Plane, will not be able to take place until Quah-Namog manages to steal the book, if he ever does (and he may well not manage it - the adventure as written tries to railroad the last chapter through, but the PCs might manage to outfox him).As a greater artifact, it might contain references to the True Words buried beneath the sands of Pelion, which might come in useful during that portion of the adventure. Perhaps it even contains the secret for resisting and surviving the Last Word itself. There also might be secrets of the origins and politics of Baator that no mortals know.Unfortunately, it's a tome of utter of evil, and any and all who read it will be corrupted into darkness themselves. For other powers it might have, it might contain secrets of binding entire legions of fiends to its owner's will, as well as powers over darkness and shadow. The artifact itself may be sentient, and it might be tied to the Hand and Eye of Vecna in some way - perhaps there are secrets that might be uncovered by those who turn the pages with the Hand and view them with the Eye that aren't available to anyone else.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ripzerai, post: 3351511, member: 38324"] In [i]Dead Gods[/i], a book that contains the secrets of bringing dead gods to life would be desired greatly by Quah-Namog, and would likely be integral to his attempt at resurrecting Orcus. The last chapter of the story, where Quah-Namog assembles all of his equipment on his master's corpse in the Astral Plane, will not be able to take place until Quah-Namog manages to steal the book, if he ever does (and he may well not manage it - the adventure as written tries to railroad the last chapter through, but the PCs might manage to outfox him). As a greater artifact, it might contain references to the True Words buried beneath the sands of Pelion, which might come in useful during that portion of the adventure. Perhaps it even contains the secret for resisting and surviving the Last Word itself. There also might be secrets of the origins and politics of Baator that no mortals know. Unfortunately, it's a tome of utter of evil, and any and all who read it will be corrupted into darkness themselves. For other powers it might have, it might contain secrets of binding entire legions of fiends to its owner's will, as well as powers over darkness and shadow. The artifact itself may be sentient, and it might be tied to the Hand and Eye of Vecna in some way - perhaps there are secrets that might be uncovered by those who turn the pages with the Hand and view them with the Eye that aren't available to anyone else. [/QUOTE]

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