Curious Item Club - Necromental Tablets

Each of these age-worn brass-tablets is inscribed with acid-etched writing.

TABLET 1: NECROMENTALS

And the seas burned and the heavens rained dust for all that had been living was like unto death, and all that was dead was like unto the living.

And the spirit of the dead had infected the natural order of the world and transformed the elemental into the necromental.

TABLET 2: LEGEND OF THE AZURE PHOENIX

From the Forest of the Eastern Trees there rose a bird of flame, and we knew unto that day that the Necromancer had not been defeated.

And the flames turned blue as it fell upon the women and the children. And the men were turned impotent by its fire.

And where they fell, the legions of corrupt flame rose in fetor.

And the Assak and the Sinai and the Kalenba were no more when the cold flames of the Azure Phoenix were no more.

And its pyres burned for a hundred and a hundred nights. And the dead were not safe within their lights.

TABLET 3: LEGEND OF THE BLACKHEART

The Spirits of the Dead had sunk into the earth. And their wrongs were drawn to each other. And a Great Cyst of All Hatred seethed within the bosom of the harvest. And the reaping rose as a Blackheart to stalk among the lands of the living.

The mountains themselves parted for its passing, and it raised a great thicket of spires to pen in the hearts of men.

And the hearts of those who would stand against the Blackheart would be marked by its pain.

And within the bosom of the earth its stillborn roam.

TABLET 4: LEGEND OF THE BLOOD TIDE

The blood of the dead ran red into the water’s bosom, and upon the turning of the moons the Blood Tide itself would rise and vomit forth the drowned.

And where the red tide passed, the breaths of the strong were stilled. And from their blood-drenched bodies, the great clouds of death rose to fill the sky.

TABLET 5: LEGEND OF THE SUNKILLER

Though the people pled to the Gods for their salvation, the sky itself turned black and the strength of their prayers were turned back upon them.

And the sky turned itself against the sun, and a great darkness fell upon the world.

And all who fell within the shadow of the sky felt the touch of its death in their own flesh.

And with a great wind the valleys of the dead were raised.