Delver's Tome

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The Black Book
 == Basic Information ==

=== Type === Sacred book

The Delver's Tome was a multi-volume reference book used by the Order of Delvers.

Description
The Delver's Tome was a compilation of the knowledge and wisdom from many different dwarven authors. It consisted of at least 10 volumes.

Function
The book served primarily as a

Contents
Only a few small details are know about the contents of the book. It is known that one of the volumes is primarily dedicated to the arts of wayfinding and mapmaking. The chapter entitled Basics of Reconnoitering and Exploration (BORE) is authored by Delvemaster Frivaldi.

History
The first scholarly mentions of The Black Book date from the early 11th century DR. Only a single name, Rendaunt, tooled into the dragonhide cover, provides any possible indication of its authorship, but certain Beshaban teachings suggest that the volume may have been one of a number of magic items created by individuals who gave themselves over to the service of Beshaba in the aftermath of the Weeping War.

The tome was discovered by an Beshaban acolyte, Thalaxas, who was led by dream-visions to uncover the book amid the ruins of Myth Drannor. Initially mocked and cast out by his superiors for his visions, Thalaxas returned vindicated to his temple in Murpeth, where he was proclaimed by a black-tentacled manifestation of Beshaba herself to be the goddess' "Servant Supreme" in Faerun.

Thereafter known as Thalaxas the Tyrant, the priest abandoned the Murpeth temple to found other temples in remote areas of Faerûn. He ultimately perished in the Battle of Slaughterwyrm in 1090 DR, when the temple of Arlast Halungh was torn apart by blue dragons. The book eventually made its way into the hands of the priestess Alass of the Dark Horns temple in the Snowflake Mountains, but was lost again when the temple was sacked by orcs in 1117 DR.

The tome since made brief appearances in the hands of a succession of crazed mages, most notably Jaulothan Marlyx, who appeared in Arrabar in 1346 DR with two beholders and laid waste to most of the city before he himself was destroyed by tanar'ri summoned by local mages. The book was lost in the resulting confusion, but appeared at least one other time that century, when the wizard Oshalon Drhee flaunted his possession of the book at a magefair.