Hec'tumel Codex
Major arcanum #9
A dozen copper plates, green with age and bound with loops of reddish metal wire. The outer plates are embossed with strange images of man and beast while the inner plates are etched with arcane diagrams and annotated in some forgotten script.
When you first run your fingers over the inscriptions, your dreams that night are filled with images of a pale, reptilian creature with skulls for eyes, slithering through darksome caverns. You awake with an alien incantation on your tongue, its words emblazoned in your mind. You can Cast a Codex Spell, and know Call the Pale Lizard.
Call the Pale Lizard. Cast this spell at night. Hec'tumel (Slithering One! Death Is Its Eyes!) manifests in the shadows until sunrise or until dismissed. It has no power unless given a host and no knowledge of the present except that which you give it. It knows much of the ancient past and the arcane arts, and can teach you if you make it worth its while. It cannot lie, but need not answer fully.
When Hec'tumel spends the night teaching you a spell from the Codex, mark 1.
Each time you make a mark, choose one of the Codex Spells (see reverse)—you can now cast it. When you make the last mark, you have unlocked the mysteries of the Codex and gain the Darksome Vessel move (see reverse).
The rest is discovered in play. Every arcanum has a hidden back — what it becomes, what it wants, what it costs. That’s for your table to find out, so it isn’t published here.
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The app deals arcana face-down; the GM flips them when the fiction says so.