The Black Books

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2. **Destruction:** Obvious what they do and also that the results are very twisted
3. **Change:** Can change reality, but like the other two, which horrible results

#### History of the Books:

* Creatures and gods existed before the creation of everything. It's the "modern" gods that destroyed them, although they weren't completely dead; they'd merely lost their forms and stored their essences in Books.
* Hundreds of these Books existed at one point, one for each of the old gods. As of the events of the campaign, there were only twelve left.
* These Books can't be destroyed by regular means or normal magic.
* Only those "called" by the books can use them
* The halfling author Merigold van Trevoort-Hatting who traveled with the legendary Eldritch Knight, Vespasian of Sarshel wrote her treatise, "On Eldritch Interference: A Concise History, Taxonomy, and Description of the Outer Gods and the Black Books," after her travels with Vespasian. There are currently three copies in existence: one in Candlekeep Library, one in the Caer Gwaed Archives, and one currently in possession by the Cormanthyri government following a secret raid on an abandoned logging camp in the nation of Waterdeep

## Black Books currently known to the Party:

### The Book of Cataclysms

* Book Type: Destruction
* Outer God: Azathoth
* Information: The destruction of reality
* Read by: Malyn Volar
* Effect not yet seen
* Status: Active

### The Book of Knowledge

* Book Type: Change
* Outer God: Yog-Sothoth
* Information: All Available Knowledge
* Read by Orestes van Lynets
* Granted Orestes knowledge of all things, which proved too much for a mortal mind to comprehend
* Status: Destroyed

### The Book of Growth

* Book Type: Change
* Outer God: Ubbo-Sathla
* Information: Psyonic and Mutagenic growth
* Read by: c'Nehr'r'Tihn
* Transformed Tihn into a tree-like parasitic organism, however the effects were largely staved off by Orestes
* Status: Destroyed

### The Book of War

* Book Type: Destruction
* Outer God: Nyarlathotep
* Information: Military tactics and technology
* Read by Telgradd Hawkwave
* Allowed the Hawk Grand Fleet to construct the Dreadnought, a giant flying metal warship
* Status: Destroyed

### The Book of Decay

* Book Type: Destruction
* Outer God: Quacchil-Uttaus
* Information: Natural medicine and treatments
* Read by Terolmic Dory
* Caused a rotting sickness in Baldur's Gate that turned people into Star Spawn Abominations
* Status: Destroyed

### The Book of Evolution

* Book Type: Creation
* Outer God: Shub-Niggurath
* Information: Civilizational planning and technology
* Read by: Therribald Faldrick (fully), Raymond Tifflich (exposed)
* Allowed Faldrick to fuse with machinery and organic matter
* Status: Destroyed

### The Book of Hunger

* Book Type: Change
* Outer God: Noth-Yidik
* Information: Realization of ambition, power acquisition
* Read by: Niall an Varid and Ælfrith Selemchant
* Gave Niall the power and influence to organize the Revolution, transformed Aelfreth into a giant all-consuming abomination
* Status: Destroyed

### The Book of Dreams

* Book Type: Creation
* Outer God: Daoloth
* Information: The influence and manipulation of dreams in reality
* Read by: Rorix
* Allowed Rorix to construct and manipulate the Dream, a hallucinatory demiplane occupied by those sleeping under the Book's influence
* Status: Destroyed

### ???

* Book Type: ???
* Outer God: Abhoth
* Information: ???
* Read by: Vadithas
* Caused a consuming, semi-acidic, semi-fungal residue that can absorb attacks and causes filth and decay wherever it appears
* Status: Unknown