The Revelations of Ijrash the Mad
Ijrash of Tel Ramiya was a warlock fascinated with the nature of dreams, and the recording of the arcane secrets of a place he called the Dreamlands, which he believed to be a plane of reality accessed by all living things in their dreams.
He devoted much of his life to developing a ritual that allowed him to connect his mind directly to the mind of a god of knowledge, in an attempt to give himself access to the deepest secrets of the Dreamlands. Unfortunately for him, he succeeded. His mind proved incapable of containing the tsunami of information that washed over him, driving himself and the god mad instantly.
Legends claim that the god Ijrash's efforts contacted was swiftly put down by other gods, and its corpse was set adrift in the Astral plane, but Ijrash lived out the rest of his days as a broken man, whose dreams were shattered by a cacophony of knowing that left him more exhausted than when he had gone to bed. In the years leading up to his nearly inevitable death by self-administered sleep poison, he compulsively recorded the torrents of knowledge spilling forth from his dreams.
Ijrash labeled the book assembled from his visions The Corpse of Kitab, but most sages that know of its existence call it The Revelations of Ijrash or The Revelations of Ijrash the Mad. The number of extant copies is unknown, and legend further speculates that the number of physical copies in existence at any one time changes from moment to moment. However, all known copies are identical in appearance. Hundreds of sheets of fine vellum are pressed between covers of tin, embossed with metals heat-patinated to vibrant colorations, which depict ever-so-slowly shifting scenes of hazy landscapes and crystalline cities. The vellum leaves are edge-painted a pale shade of pink, and the lettering is rendered in a painstakingly neat hand, in a vivid turquoise ink.
The text is overwhelmingly chaotic, and at least three widely recognized systems exist for cataloguing the contents of The Revelations. Information known to have been recovered from the book includes a recipe for mediocre crumb cake, a ritual for turning a hut or small house upside down, complete shoe-sizing measurements for the second-to-last Emperor of Adlonia, teleportation coordinates for (hopefully) empty places in the Void, and roughly 30 pages of instruction in light conversational elements of the Slaad language. Meticulous instructions for alternate versions of dream and plane shift spells are present, as well as detailed instructions for ritually summoning a flumph.
He devoted much of his life to developing a ritual that allowed him to connect his mind directly to the mind of a god of knowledge, in an attempt to give himself access to the deepest secrets of the Dreamlands. Unfortunately for him, he succeeded. His mind proved incapable of containing the tsunami of information that washed over him, driving himself and the god mad instantly.
Legends claim that the god Ijrash's efforts contacted was swiftly put down by other gods, and its corpse was set adrift in the Astral plane, but Ijrash lived out the rest of his days as a broken man, whose dreams were shattered by a cacophony of knowing that left him more exhausted than when he had gone to bed. In the years leading up to his nearly inevitable death by self-administered sleep poison, he compulsively recorded the torrents of knowledge spilling forth from his dreams.
Ijrash labeled the book assembled from his visions The Corpse of Kitab, but most sages that know of its existence call it The Revelations of Ijrash or The Revelations of Ijrash the Mad. The number of extant copies is unknown, and legend further speculates that the number of physical copies in existence at any one time changes from moment to moment. However, all known copies are identical in appearance. Hundreds of sheets of fine vellum are pressed between covers of tin, embossed with metals heat-patinated to vibrant colorations, which depict ever-so-slowly shifting scenes of hazy landscapes and crystalline cities. The vellum leaves are edge-painted a pale shade of pink, and the lettering is rendered in a painstakingly neat hand, in a vivid turquoise ink.
The text is overwhelmingly chaotic, and at least three widely recognized systems exist for cataloguing the contents of The Revelations. Information known to have been recovered from the book includes a recipe for mediocre crumb cake, a ritual for turning a hut or small house upside down, complete shoe-sizing measurements for the second-to-last Emperor of Adlonia, teleportation coordinates for (hopefully) empty places in the Void, and roughly 30 pages of instruction in light conversational elements of the Slaad language. Meticulous instructions for alternate versions of dream and plane shift spells are present, as well as detailed instructions for ritually summoning a flumph.
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