The emerald tablet

Among the many treatises of alchemy, none is more famous

then the Emerald Tablet, a text akin for alchemists to the

Book of Vile Darkness or the Book of Exalted Deeds,

containing limitless scientific potential.

Those that lay their

hands on the mystical Emerald Tablet understand that

alchemy isn't limited to the physical world, but encompasses

all levels of reality, matter, shape, and form. The tablet unveils

the universal principles of growth and the fluidity of change

in all things. Made of pure emerald, its surface is carved with

alchemical equations that only practitioners can understand.

The tablet can be read from all directions and angles,

seemingly revealing new texts based on its orientation, a

puzzling property of its form.

It is said to contain infinite alchemical knowledge, from

the secret to creating a Philosopher’s Stone, how to achieve true

chrysopoeia or how to brew the elixir of immortality. The

the tablet has been lost and rediscovered countless times

through the ages, always sparking a new age of discovery and

scientific achievements when found. Many attempts have

been made to copy its formulas, and some have had some

limited successes in doing so, but the most difficult formulas

always seem to end up incorrect, somehow requiring the

tablet’s possession to be performed.

An attuned creature must spend 80 hours reading and

studying the tablet to digest its contents and gain its benefits.

Other creatures can read the carvings but glean no deeper

meaning and reap no benefits. Benefits granted by the

Emerald Tablet lasts only as long as you have the tablet in your

possession. If you lose possession of the tablet, you lose all

the benefits that it grants.

Item type

Unique Artifact