Skull Diary

Covering advanced theoretical Necromantic knowledge of the First Age, this text is more prestigious than useful as it posits a third circle of necromancy to match the power of the sorcerous Solar Circle of Adamant but the method of initiation process in the book was never successfully followed in the First Age. Subsequently at least some Deathlords have reached the Void Circle of Obsidian, but it is unknown if they used this method or if any other being can master this circle.

Analysis of the text suggests that the breakthroughs of the writer are matched with areas of ignorance, as if they were entirely self-taught and had not been exposed to any existing lore or teaching.

The unknown author inscribed their work in a cypher onto a thousand human skulls but it has since been transcribed into more traditional form. Unfortunately no complete copy exists, and to recreate one would require over a dozen of the largest overlapping fragments. A single fragment likely costs Resources 1, a set of three Resources 2, Resources 3 for 6 and Resources 4 for enough to recreate the book.

At least some of the original skulls still exist, and are typically the prized possession of a Necromancer

The Books of Sorcery Vol II: The Black Treatise page 20