Codex of Tsll Y'gall

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The Codex of Tsll-Y’gall was created by an aboleth, a great sea monster, of the same name. The codex is a magical relic used by the aboleth to transform humanoid slaves into submissive chuuls – a species of crustacean-like monsters that obediently served an aboleth empire in the distant past. The empire dissolved from the world millenia ago, but the magic retained by the Codex is as potent today as it was when it was used then.   The inscription upon the Codex isn’t a language, and no attempt to read it will make sense, even under the effect of Comprehend Languages. Instead, the magic of the Codex is triggered with blood.  

Relation to Crypt Crew

This coral tablet is composed of a unique material, with a pink sheen like marble, much not quite as heavy. It bears an unreadable inscription, presumably detailing the nature of the artifact. By the account of Frankie Moradinni, the tablet was fished out of the Dagger River adjacent to Sharn by a fisherman, and purchased from him by the Boromar Clan.   This magnanimous artifact has been the interest of several parties, including the Boromar Clan, Skeleton Crime Syndicate, and the Order of the Emerald Claw. After the SCS attempted to theft it from the Clan , skeleton Rikus Nickol betrayed his organization and attempted to keep the tablet himself, he became disfigured, growing monstrous appendages and chitinous plating around his bones.   After the Crypt Crew defeated Rikus and returned the tablet to the SCS, the Order of the Emerald Claw stole it from them, and used it in an assembly-like construction to create the part flesh, part machine, part monster Mechanimations. The Crypt Crew stopped this nefarious project as a job for the Boromar Clan, and once again collected the Codex.   However, instead of completing the job for the Boromar, the Crypt Crew chose to deal with a mysterious man with a machine head, who manipulated the heroes into giving him the tablet.