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Knowledge of the Serpent’s Sacraments - Magic Item (Premium Supplement)
🕑 Added 2023-10-03 13:27:49 +0000 UTC🕸️🐉📜The hallowed auction halls of Eldoria present to you a piece lost to time, only spoken of in the faintest whispers through the corridors of secret societies: Knowledge of the Serpent’s Sacraments.
Amidst its scintillating, scale-bound cover, the tome beckons the beholder into a realm where the venomous dance of serpents intertwines with the dark arts of ancient poisoncraft. The scales, once belonging to the mythical Serpent Queen, Syltherix, shimmer with a malevolent, yet mesmerizing aura, enchanting those who dare to glance upon it.
As one delicately turns its pages, artful illustrations of venomous beasts, vipers, and mythical serpents slither through the parchment, with some swearing they subtly coil and uncoil, an endless dance of the macabre and marvelous. The ghastly beauty of these creatures both terrifies and enthralls, providing a hauntingly mesmerizing journey through each leaf of the tome.
Potent recipes of unspoken toxins, their molecules intricately drawn with inks of an unknown origin, present themselves, coiling through the pages like an ever-present serpent, guiding one through the dark alchemical arts that have long been forbidden.
Tales of kingdoms fallen, heroes vanquished, and entities of unimaginable power undone by the merest drop of these concealed concoctions unfold in dark, poetic verses, hinting at the devastating power veiled within this mysterious manuscript.
A myriad of lethal flora and treacherous fauna, each with their own deadly allure, is detailed with a precision that defies mortal understanding, revealing secrets that could spell doom or salvation for those who dare to understand.
Each page promises power for a price, and as the myths suggest, only those who weave through its venomous verses unscathed will grasp the serpentine sovereignty hidden within its scales. 🕸️🐉📜
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Knowledge of the Serpent’s Sacraments
Wondrous item, very rare
This antiquated tome is bound in the shimmering scales of an ancient, venomous serpent, and its pages, although aged, ripple with a potent, vibrant magic. Delicate, serpentine runes coil around the text, a script of the most deadly and devious poisons known to the realms. Enigmatic tales and cryptic recipes of venoms that have the power to breach even the mightiest defenses weave through its pages, along with dark rites and secrets that challenge the very foundation of alchemical knowledge.
If you spend 72 hours over a period of 9 days or fewer studying the book's contents and practicing its alchemical exercises, you gain the ability to erode the resistances and immunities of creatures to poison. The specified details are as follows:
- A creature immune to poison damage gains resistance instead when taking poison damage from your spells or attacks.
- A creature resistant to poison damage loses its resistance when taking poison damage from your spells or attacks.
- On a critical hit with a spell or attack, a creature that isn't resistant or immune to poison damage gains vulnerability to poison damage from your attacks or spells until the end of your next turn.
Once the book's secrets have been unveiled, the scaly binding fades to a dull, lifeless grey, and the pages, once lively and vibrant, crumble to dust, rendering the tome a mere husk of its former self.
