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Player > Items > Magic > Book of Unwritten Truths
Level: 20
Price: Priceless
Bulk: L
The Book of Unwritten Truths is a massive book of 528 metallic
pages without images or words. According to legend, the book
exists as a strange Material Plane connection to the Akashic
Record, and information in the volume is presented through
tactile means. However, the tome allows its readers to access
information on only obscure topics. The axiomite curators of the
library world of Athaeum have long sought this artifact as a
capstone to their collection.
If you can touch the Book of Unwritten Truths, you can read
it. While you touch the book, you can take 20 on any skill check
to recall knowledge, provided the DC to recall that knowledge is
higher than 20. If you roll the check rather than taking 20, you
gain a +10 insight bonus to the check. You can read the book to
recall knowledge using any skill, even if you are untrained in the
associated skill. Once you gain information from the check, the
book closes itself and can't be used to gain knowledge using the
same skill for 24 hours.
Once per day, the book allows you to cast vision. You must
spend the 1 Resolve Point required for the spell, but you are
considered to automatically succeed at the caster level check.
The book, rather than a computer, imparts the information the
spell accesses.
If you attempt to use the book to research the Gap, you gain 1
negative level. Each time you use the book thereafter, you must
succeed at a DC 30 Will saving throw or gain 1 negative level.
Someone who knows a secret lost to the Gap can write that
truth in the Book of Unwritten Truths to convert it to a mundane
tome with none of its powers.
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