Wondrous Item

Very Rare

This crumbling tome is bound in brittle leather and filled with unsettling, cryptic passages about a force known only as "the Dark." The pages seem to shift when not observed, and the ink pulses faintly in low light. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book’s contents and meditating on its esoteric revelations, your Vigor score increases by 2, to a maximum of 30, as your body is subtly transformed by your understanding of the Dark’s flow and resistance. Upon gaining this bonus, you must immediately make a Sanity saving throw (DC 10). On a failure, your mind is fractured by the knowledge and you suffer an indefinite madness effect. Once used, the tome's pages go blank and it loses its magic, regaining its potency after a century.

The Tome of Withering Shadows is bound in cracked, gray leather that feels dry and oddly warm to the touch, as if it were once alive. Faint, vein-like patterns crawl across its surface, pulsing subtly when held in darkness. The pages inside are brittle and stained, filled with twisting, handwritten symbols that seem to shift when viewed from the corner of the eye. A faint, musty scent of ash and old blood clings to the tome, and those who open it swear they hear a whisper just beyond comprehension.

Cost: 25,000$
Weight: 5#