希瑞经
神器希瑞经是一本有着很大的(一英尺见方)漆黑封面的书册,封面上绘着狞笑的骷髅和暗日,背景则是代表折磨与混乱的扭曲花纹。这本书附有金质的铰链和搭扣,并配有坚固金属制成的锁。开启这把锁要受到15%的技能减值并且它无法被破坏。这本书的书页则是由剥制下来的皮肤制成——来源于前任失败的抄写员。书中的书页装饰着由金箔制成的绘成奇怪的兽形的花纹,并且书页上的文字均由鲜红色的墨水写成。一旦开始阅读,这本书就难以放下。有时这本书会持续的放射出奇异的绿光,沿着书脊强烈的闪动。
历史
希瑞经的存在反映出了希瑞克的野心——他试图支配所有国度并征服其他的神祗。在动乱之年后,神祗的力量直接与他(她、它)的信徒的数量和规模相关。希瑞经是一本强力的魔法卷册,它能使任何听到或看到它的其他神的信徒转变为希瑞克的狂热信仰者。以此毁灭国度内的其他神使得希瑞克自己成为唯一的神祗。
希瑞经在牺牲了很多的抄写员(397个)之后终于制成,于是它被用在Fzoul Chembryl身上作为测试。但当时Mask正假扮成他并因而代替他读了这本书。希瑞经成功的在阅读者的意识中编制了一张谎言之网,而只有在Mask放弃了他的一部分神力之后才勉强摆脱了它带来的完全支配效果。由此可知任何弱于神的生物都将会毫无疑问的受到卷册的影响。
此后希瑞经在散提尔堡中被宣读,但是(真正的)Fzoul事先已经读过了《希瑞克真传》——希瑞经的克制物从而没有受到希瑞经的影响。而这次散提尔堡的宣读只是毁灭的开始。稍后希瑞经被托付给抄写员Rinda——他在希瑞克的强迫下不情愿的制造了这本书。后来Rinda被Oghma(可能是以和Azure Bonds的Alias相同的方式)用回避侦测术藏了起来以保证希瑞经不至于落入希瑞克和他的信徒的手中。
在战役中使用
希瑞经是国度内最危险的书之一。如果阅读它,它会将阅读者转变成一名希瑞克的狂热信徒,并使它积极的在国度内传播希瑞克的语录。因此,其他神的神殿都如同希瑞克神神殿一样派出探员不断地寻找它的下落,无论是想将它作为谈判的筹码或是彻底摧毁掉。
更糟的是,还存在着一些早先的没有附魔的希瑞经的草稿。虽然其中的大部分都已经销毁了(与他们的制造者一起),但可能仍有一到两本——至少是一部分——还存在并流传着。这说明希瑞经的影响力仍然遍布所有国度。这些没有附魔的草稿缺乏神奇的力量,并且可以如常被销毁。
力量
持续:任何阅读希瑞经的人都会变成希瑞克的狂热信徒,一个成功的豁免鉴定可以在你读到它的结论之前停止阅读,但要承受-4减值。即使通过了豁免鉴定你还是会受到一个持续的弱智术的影响,只有医疗术和祈愿术可以结束这一效果。
任何听到宣读希瑞经的人允许进行一次豁免对抗。任何成功通过豁免的人会立刻受到恐惧术的影响并试图逃离宣读者:而豁免失败的人则会转变成希瑞克的狂热信徒。
受到希瑞经影响的人会坚信书中所写的一切:希瑞克是国度内的真神;是所有神祗的至高神;是唯一值得信仰的神。其他神的牧师会转变成希瑞克的牧师,(如果有其他有效牧师等级的话则会变成特殊牧师。)阵营会立即转变成混乱邪恶,而且这些人会不断的传诵希瑞克的“圣言”。
一旦某人读了希瑞经,便只有完全祈愿术才有可能移除它的影响,而且这也只提供给他另一次豁免的机会罢了,(还要受到弱智术的影响)。神性生物可以抵抗这本书的影响,但这需要他放弃一个阶段的神力。(弱等神力变成半神,半神则失去他的神力。)曾经受到希瑞经的影响并不会给他带来免疫能力——他还是有可能在另一次阅读中受到影响。
建议的销毁方式
·这本书必须被献祭在纯净之炎中。
·这本书必须呈给AO本人,他会将这本书(以及它的撰写神)送到另一个存在的平行位面去。
英文版
he artifact known as cyrinishad is a large (1-foot-square)tome of raven-black leather embossed with a pattern of small grinning skulls and dark sunbursts against a twisting, warped background of torture and chaos. the book has golden hinges and clasps, and it is closed with a lock of unbreakable metal. the lock may be picked at a -15% penalty but cannot be shattered. the pages of this book are made of the flayed skins of the scribes of earlier, less-successful drafts of the tome. these interior pages are illuminated with strange, bestial designs imprinted on gold foil, and the text of the work is inscribed in bright red ink. once begun, it is a hard book to put down. at random times and for random durations, the book may emit an eerie green radiance, which flickers and seems strongest along the edges of opening pages.
history
the Cyrinishad reflects an attempt by the god Cyric to dominate the Realms and conquer the other great deific powers. as a result of the Time of Troubles, the power of a deity is directly related to the size and fervor of belief of his, her, or its followers. the Cyrinishad is a powerfully enchanted tome that causes the reader or listener to become a fanatical followers of other powers of the Realms to his faith, thereby destroying them and allowing him to attain the position of the only power in the Realms.
the Cyrinishad was finished after a great many drafts(397). its power was to be tested on Fzoul Chembryl, but the god Mask was impersonating him at the time and read the book in his stead. the tome was successful in weaving its web of lies into its reader's consciousness, and Mask only escaped its complete domination by excising portions of Masks own godly power. Any lesser creature would undoubtedly be totally ensnared by the power of this book.
the Cyrinishad was to be read to the people of Zhentil Keep, but(the real) Fzoul instead read a blasphemous text, the True Life of Cyric, that rebutted Cyric's dogma. the reading was the beginning of the destruction of Zhentil Keep. the real Cyrinishad was later entrusted to Rinda the Scribe, who had created it unwillingly under extreme coercion by Cyric. Rinda was rendered undetectable by the god Oghma(in a manner presumably similar to that of Alias of the Azure Bonds) and entrusted with keeping the book from the hands of Cyric and his followers.
Campaign Use
the Cyrinishad is one of the most dangerous books in the Realms. if it is read, it turns its reader into a fanatical follower of Cyric, who then seeks to spread the word of Cyric throughout the Realms. as a result, it is continually hunted by agents of the church of Cyric as well as other powers who wish to either utilize its power as a bargaining chip or destroy it utterly.
to make matters worse, there are a number of early drafts of the Cyrinishad that lack the magical powers of the final book. most of the early draft were destroyed(along with their scribes), but apparently one or two survived—at least in part—to make it into general circulation. this means the Cyrinishad sightings may occur throughout the Realms. these nonmagical drafts lack the artifact power of the true Cyrinishad, and they may be destroyed like any normal book.
Powers
constant. the reader of the Cyrinishad becomes a fanatical followers of Cyric. A successful saving throw vs. spell at a -4 penalty allows an individual to stop reading before the conclusion of the book. even a successful saving throw results in the reader being under the effect of a feeblemind spell until a heal or a wish spell is used to cure that condition.
those listening to the book read aloud are forced to make a saving throw vs. spell. those who make a successful saving throw immediately suffer the effects of a fear spell and seek to escape the speaker. those fail their saving throw(or those who cannot escape the reader's voice) become fanatical followers of Cyric.
those affected by the Cyrinishad believe all written within the book to be true: Cyric is the one true deific power of the Realms, supreme above all other deities, and the only individual worth venerating. priests of other deities immediately become clerics of Cyric.(Those with the necessary prerequisites may become specialty priests.) alignment of any convert changes immediately to chaotic evil, and such an individual continues to spread the "good word" of Cyric.
once a person is converted, only a full wish spell negates the effects of the Cyrinishad, and this only gains the individual a new saving throw vs. spell(with the feeblemind effects as noted above). creatures of godly nature may shed the effects of the book, but at the effective cost of one level of their power.(a lesser power becomes a demipower, and a demipower loses all godly power.) being affected once by the Cyrinishad does not provide immunization from the book—one may still be affected upon another reading.
Suggested Means of Destruction
the book must be immolated in a fire of absolute purity.
the book must be turned over to Ao himself, who will place the book(and its godly author) into a separate plane of existence.