A tome of understanding was a magical book that contained magically-infused texts that could increase the reader's common sense and wisdom.[1]
Description[]
Tomes of understanding were large, heavy books that contained exercises designed to improve the reader's intuition and insight. The topics and themes of these tomes varied. They could contain scholarly treatises and accounts of legal, philosophical, and arcane subjects, or mental exercises that encouraged new modes of thinking.[2][1]
Powers[]
Charged within the book's words was a powerful magical enchantment. If the reader completed the book within a period of 6 days, an activity that required a total of 48 hours of reading, the reader was endowed with a great improvement to their intuitive and reasoning capacities, potentially transcending their natural potential.[1]
Once the tome was fully read, its magical power was spent and it became an ordinary book until it recharged after one century,[1] though they were also known to simply disintegrate after use.[2]
Notable Owners[]
- A tome was stored inside the Amber Temple in Barovia, one of the Domains of Dread.[3]
- Chanthalas Ulbright of the Lady's Hall in Baldur's Gate possessed a tome.[2]
- A tome was stored inside the catacombs of Candlekeep.[2]
- A tome could be found inside Durlag's Tower.[2]
- The book-obsessed lich Adzerak kept a tome inside his lair of Barrenstone.[4]
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External Links[]
Tome of Understanding article at the Baldur's Gate Wiki, a wiki for the Baldur's Gate games.- D&D Beyond
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Jeremy Crawford, Christopher Perkins, James Wyatt (December 2014). Dungeon Master's Guide 5th edition. Edited by Scott Fitzgerald Gray, et al. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 209. ISBN 978-0-7869-6562-5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 BioWare (December 1998). Designed by James Ohlen. Baldur's Gate. Black Isle Studios.
- ↑ Christopher Perkins, Tracy Hickman, Laura Hickman (March 2016). Curse of Strahd. Edited by Kim Mohan. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 187. ISBN 978-0-7869-6598-4.
- ↑ John Terra (November 1997). Four from Cormyr. Edited by Kim Mohan. (TSR, Inc.), p. 18. ISBN 0-7869-0646-4.