Nonleveaux’s Lament

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Nonleveaux’s Lament is part of Rastillions Diabolique, the Malificent Minorus set of works.

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Chronicle/Facts of Nonleveaux’s Lament

Item Powers (common and Attuned) can be found under Common Knowledge tab.

Knowledge is broken down by ease of discovery/availability & Meticulous Record Keeping may improve usability; Any attempt to know more than what's Pervasive will require a reference, source, knowledge, check, or access to someone who can get or provide either of these. Specific Lores may increase the chance of knowing specific elements.

Trivial Outcome / Very Easy Difficulty & Pervasive Knowledge

Information Sources: Mundane Reference | Associated Phenomenology Only | Specific Lore

For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.

The later half of this work is just a series of a hundred or so ripped pages.

Rumors About the Item
  1. Reading it will drive the reader mad.
  2. It is incomplete.

Simple Outcome / Easy Difficulty & Common Knowledge

For those native to or long-dwelling in the region, ALL Common Knowledge may be Pervasive.

No one knows for sure what entity the name refers to, but Nonleveaux is the name signed to the authorship of this evil text.

In the end, Nonleveaux tore out so many pages of copied text and set them adrift on the wind, crying out in a lament of self loathing and frustration.

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Lesser Attunement (1 Essence total )

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Destroying the Item: As an item with inherent mystic nature, it is deeply bound to The Pattern – mere mundane efforts cannot destroy it. It must be exiled as a Mystic Offering or a Lovigdril rite, Gleaned for anima, melted, disintegrated, or shattered – not merely made Useless.

Minor Outcome / Average Difficulty & Uncommon Knowledge

The text references the Chapel of the Black Sun, nothing its approximate location and use in communing with The Void.

A portion of Nonleveaux’s Lament, beyond the Litany of the Void, is known to be replicated in a volume of The Endless Gates.

The journal of Nonleveaux, documented in this work, is a legacy of one tragedy after another. Nonleveaux laments his fate, slowly consumed by the Void, a curse they brought upon themselves.

Scarce Knowledge / Hard Difficulty

Each Lament is a failed attempt by the author to leverage the teachings. It seemed the author felt they had been cursed to fail. The same test, the same result written into page after page, in third person perspective.

This work contains Part 2 of the Litany of the Void.

It contains multiple rituals in which a portion of the self and Essence are transformed into nothingness, assuming Aethereal Presence Spectrum:

Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty

Nonleveaux’s Lament is bound in the skin of an elf. The pages are a pale parchment (also elven skin), that is warm like flesh, written in precise script.

Warning
Obscure/Hidden Knowledge is not generally available in known references; It is not necessarily Forbidden.
DO NOT READ BEYOND THIS POINT unless a character has the capability to gain such knowledge [through association, organization, or relation] if they do not possess it themselves or the reader intends to participate in scenarios using this material as a PLAYER! GM Narration will typically provide relevant information by check or story.

Realm's Aptitude Powers: Divine, Occult, and Psychic