Book of Names

The Book of Names is a silver book that lay bound with chains on a great altar in the library of the Ruined Geroni temple, in the campaign Yeni Dünya ("New World"). Around it burned a thin band of flame that was said never to go out.¹

The altar

The flame-ringed pedestal and the book did not match the architecture of the room and looked as if they had been brought in later. A warning worked into the pedestal wished that, if faith had not stopped the reader, reason would turn them back. The book gave off very strong divination magic; the pedestal itself bore none. An attempt to learn more by meditating on the fire and the book came to nothing.^{2 3 4 5}

The names

The companion who took it up reached through the fire, but fainted in sharp pain the moment the book was in hand, and afterwards was for a time more sensitive to fire. Opened, its blank pages filled with all the names and nicknames of the one who held it. Laid on the cross-legged statue of a child at the temple's entrance, its pages turned, but no name appeared. A devil who picked it up, it is said, would see its true name written there.^{6 7 8 9 10}

In Avlor Aten

When the band, held in Avlor Aten, explained in the Geroni tongue what the book did, the tabaxi Kuraks took it and left. After their escape the band found that the book was not among their things, and the Book of Names was in fact with the city's chief arcanist.^{11 12 13}