Known Tablet #1
The exhalation of worlds.
The low thrum of whalesong rippling across sand at the bottom of dark seas.
The darkness hides secrets, the knowledge of ages, the detritus of every failure.
The waters dissolve order like acids dissolving white fat.
A moment of perfect understanding, and thereafter a madness beckons, with white eyes blinded by inarguable truths and disturbing explanations.
The waves lap and the mud splutters: A chant, a name, a place, a key; a word of power:
G O R G A S U U L
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Background
Found at the Chapel of Many Gods (locus multorum deorum) in the Raven's Rock keep. Evidently taken as plunder in a raid on a nearby lizardfolk encampment. The Lizardfolk claimed to have received it from the 'moist depths', the deep muddy sinkhole in the swamps, from which strange mud-elementals and worse creatures occasionally proceed. The lizardfolk further claim to retain another tablet, and to have had three others. The obscurity of the scholarship on this topic makes it impossible to know the order the tablets are meant to be taken in, but this was the first tablet found by adventurers in the Keep on the Borderlands.
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