The Leaves of One Night

The Leaves of One Night was an ancient text revealing secrets about the goddess Shar.

Description
The Leaves were a pair of black slate tiles joined together to open like a book. Inscribed on each tile were silver letters. The text of The Leaves included instructions on how to summon the Shadowstorm.

History
There was confusion about the creation of this ancient text. The Shadovar believed that the work predated the Fall of Netheril in −339 DR, and it was said to reside in the town of Sepulcher, in the House of Mystery among its other treasures.

In truth, the text was not written until much later and not by Netherese hands. In the Year of the Sundered Crypt, 684 DR, a group of wizards from Myth Drannor calling themselves the Dark Diviners discovered the Book of the Black, a work containing the Black Chronology of Augathra the Mad. The cabal copied portions of the Book of the Black to create a new work called The Leaves of One Night.

Because the work contained secrets that Shar did not want revealed, including a potential weakness, she cursed the book, making it illegible to everyone unless she permitted it. She then guided her servants to steal The Leaves of Night in the same year. They were successful, and the only copy of the book was lost to history for many centuries.

In the month of Kythorn in 1373 DR, a shade priestess of Shar named Variance Amatick received a vision from Shar, commanding her to retrieve The Leaves for the Shadovar. Meanwhile, in the city of Yhaunn, in Sembia, a series of artifacts were discovered in a deep tunnel under that city's quarries. These were delivered to the wizard and archeologist Strasus Thingoleir, who believed them to be of Netherese origin. Among the treasures was the pair of slate tiles that were The Leaves.

On the 20 of Eleasias of the same year, the Shadovar were able to recover the work.

On the 1 of Nightal of the next year, another priestesses of Shar named Elyril Hraven completed a ritual hidden in The Leaves that allowed her to summon the Shadowstorm, destroying the city of Ordulin in Sembia.

Appearances

 * Mistress of the Night
 * Shadowstorm
 * The Godborn