Codex of Araunt

The Codex of Araunt is a tract originally recorded on stone tablets by Lod, a bone naga and founder of the Eminence of Araunt, more than five hundred years before the Year of the Ageless One. It prophesized the slow expansion of the Eminence in the centuries that followed.

The Codex contains several rituals and spells that allow to:
 * Create portals (called deathways) that link distant gravesites and mausoleums together, visible only to undead.
 * Create undead, like direhelms and doomsepts, from the spirits of dead warriors.
 * Empower undead with useful abilities.
 * Grant boons to the undead and lay blights on the living simultaneosly.