The Abhorrent Codex
Over a thousand years ago, the wizard known as Iphegor of the
Ebon Mirror composed a terrible book, the Codex Anathema.
A student of distant places, times, and planes, Iphegor plumbed the depths of space and reality with the aid of the Ebon Mirror, a powerful artifact that allowed him to see into strange and terrible places indeed. The Codex Anathema records the frightful visions he observed in the Ebon Mirror, along with rambling essays in which Iphegor describes his own findings and conclusions about matters no sane being should dwell on for long.
The Codex includes accounts of astral voyages into the dim antediluvian eons when aboleths ruled over the world, frenetic narratives about passages into the depths of the Far Realm, and dialogues with illithid sages and tsochari imposters. Studies and observations about creatures such as beholders, chuuls, psurlons, and beings clearly originating outside of nature comprise a large part of the Codex.
Overall, the book is poorly organized, consisting of a haphazard collection of essays, narratives, notes, and odd arcane formulae jotted down in whatever order Iphegor happened to think of them.
No one knows Iphegor’s final fate, but it is said that the Ebon Mirror still exists, buried in some dreadful dungeon. To stare into its depths is to risk life and sanity—yet secrets of untold power might lie within its starry void.
A student of distant places, times, and planes, Iphegor plumbed the depths of space and reality with the aid of the Ebon Mirror, a powerful artifact that allowed him to see into strange and terrible places indeed. The Codex Anathema records the frightful visions he observed in the Ebon Mirror, along with rambling essays in which Iphegor describes his own findings and conclusions about matters no sane being should dwell on for long.
The Codex includes accounts of astral voyages into the dim antediluvian eons when aboleths ruled over the world, frenetic narratives about passages into the depths of the Far Realm, and dialogues with illithid sages and tsochari imposters. Studies and observations about creatures such as beholders, chuuls, psurlons, and beings clearly originating outside of nature comprise a large part of the Codex.
Overall, the book is poorly organized, consisting of a haphazard collection of essays, narratives, notes, and odd arcane formulae jotted down in whatever order Iphegor happened to think of them.
No one knows Iphegor’s final fate, but it is said that the Ebon Mirror still exists, buried in some dreadful dungeon. To stare into its depths is to risk life and sanity—yet secrets of untold power might lie within its starry void.
