Destroy the Anatomy of the Eternal Vessel

The Anatomy of the Eternal Vessel cannot be destroyed through ordinary means. Fire, acid, unmaking rituals, and psychic assaults all fail—the codex adapts, regenerates, or simply becomes inert until danger passes. Even complete disintegration has proven temporary. It remembers itself.

The True Method of Destruction

The artifact can only be destroyed in a place where the boundary between identity and oblivion collapses—the Hollow Cradle, a ruinous biomechanical womb deep beneath the ruins of the Pre-Fall surgical enclave called Resurgens Theta. Once a regenerative research facility, the Cradle was a failed experiment meant to birth perfected human forms. Now, it is a tomb where consciousnesses blur and bodies melt into a pulsing mass of never-born “First Vessels.”

To destroy the codex:

1. It must be read aloud—fully, and without deviation—in the Cradle’s central chamber, while submerged in the amniotic gel that was once used to gestate synthetic humans.
2. The one reading it must be someone who has already undergone irreversible anatomical transformation from the book’s teachings, someone who is no longer entirely themselves. They are known as the Half-Made.
3. As the final passage is spoken, the book will resist, attempting to overwrite the speaker’s thoughts and seize their body. Only if the reader succeeds a series of Charisma saving throws (DC escalating each round, starting at 15 and ending at 22) can the ritual be completed.
4. If successful, the codex will dissolve into the amniotic fluid, screaming—not audibly, but through waves of emotion so intense they can render others unconscious. It will become unbound thought, disintegrated into a nonpattern—unknowable, unreadable, unrecoverable.

Risks and Consequences

• If the reader fails, the Anatomy does not perish—it rewrites them entirely, absorbing their memories and voice, and grows into a new form: a living incarnation of the First Vessel, walking proof that divinity can be sculpted through flesh.