The Codex of Araunt was a tract originally recorded on stone tablets by Lod, a bone naga and founder of the Eminence of Araunt.[1]
History
More than five-hundred years before the Year of the Ageless One, 1479 DR, the codex prophesied the slow expansion of the Eminence in the centuries that followed.[1]
Abilities
The Codex contained several rituals and spells that allowed its user to:[1]
- Create portals (called "deathways") that linked distant gravesites and mausoleums together across Laerakond and Faerûn,[2] and even between Abeir and Toril,[3] visible only to undead.[2]
- Created undead, like direhelms and doomsepts, from the spirits of dead warriors.
- Empowere undead with useful abilities.
- Grant boons to the undead and blights on the living simultaneously.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Bruce R. Cordell, Ed Greenwood, Chris Sims (August 2008). Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. Edited by Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 252–253. ISBN 978-0-7869-4924-3.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bruce R. Cordell, Ed Greenwood, Chris Sims (August 2008). Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. Edited by Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 206. ISBN 978-0-7869-4924-3.
- ↑ Richard Lee Byers (2013). Prophet of the Dead. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 45–46. ISBN 0786963611.