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a hidden tome

A book has been torn and discarded here.

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The tome was once a handsome book bound in soft cloth, with steel nubs anchoring each corner.  At some point it has been savaged, tearing the cover and many of the pages.  Moving the book sends hundreds more fluttering to the ground, many stained and beyond use.  Once said and done, and placed flatly on a table, only a handful of readable pages remain.

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Most of the remaining pages were spared extensive damage by the loss of their companions.  These remaining few tell exhaustively of the academic points and lengthy dry history of demon control and imprisonment in the past. One section has been painstakingly restored with a liquid to stabilize paper, very likely the only reason this section remains among the carnage.

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The restored pages outline the dangers of demon imprisonment.  Though the
formulae to imprison within enclosed areas has been torn and nearly completely
missing, the formulae to release the binding wards to allow entrance and
destruction of the Demon reads as follows:

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   Release the sanction by the five elements, as each lie as a necessity to
give clarity of intent to the binding geas.  Both air and lifespirit are bound
and represented by the feathers of the common grackle, as to draw the Demon
into stasis for the length of the removal of the unbinding wards.  Primordial
fire MUST be invoked as the crux, though obscure beyond summoning circles, it
must not be omitted!  Black soil from the foot of the Tree of Life represents
the Earth, binding the ward's dissipation to the ground.  The shell of the
ocean conch focuses the sea's cleansing power, the ingrained salt of the
conch's life discharging the remaining energies to bleed harmlessly through
the conduit of Earth's grounding force.    


   Beyond these pages, the text is garbled past use.

Where it comes from

• Inside the silver marker, on the ground in The Library, Nekros Manteia

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Keywords: tome book hidden