Appearance: This book
is large,
square, and (judging from
Elminster's
description) approximately
two feet on
a side. It is fashioned
of cured white
elkhide stretched over finger-thick
boards of black wood, and
both outside
covers bear a rune in the
center, depicting
four arrows meeting in a
circle,
thus:
Four white vellum pages are
sewn to
the hide "spine" within.
History and Description:
The Tome
is the creation of the four
most powerful
(of their time) mages of
the North,
who formed the Covenant,
an alliance
(basically NG)
founded to
enforce a peace between
warring tribal
kingdoms, and to build the
collective
power and prosperity of
the Northlands
against the coming confrontation
with the orcs and their
kin. The Covenant
has long been inactive:
Grimwald
and Presper disappeared
on a journey
of exploration into other
worlds than
this; Agannazar is believed
to have perished
in the destruction of the
School of
Wizardry at Neverwinter
by the Red
Wizards of Thay; and Ilyykur
is known
to have sacrificed himself
in the Green
Tower of Thulnath to destroy
the archlich
Ruelve.
The Tome was made to commemorate
the founding of the Covenant,
and
as a source of power and
a worship
symbol for the apprentices
who were
intended to follow in the
Four Founders
-- footsteps and become
new members
of the pact (none did).
Each of the
Four Founders contributed
one unique
spell to the work, and each
of these
spells appears alone on
its own page.
The spells appear with no
names; they
have acquired colloquial
names
through description of the
book by various
writers in the North, and
by use of
the spells by the original
apprentices of
the Four (and subsequently,
in turn, by
their apprentices). These
apprentices,
now themselves powerful
workers of
magic, are not identified
by Elminster.
The sage does say that they
did not
cooperate as their masters
had, but
split in dissension, one
of them presumably
bearing the Tome. Its present
owner,
and whereabouts, are uncertain.
Elminster knows the precise
spells set
down on its pages from perusing
the
workbooks of the Four and
certain of
their apprentices, and has
consented to
reproduce them, below.
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