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Wisdom of Adod

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  • Requires: ✦✧ Intellect    
  • Origins:  Kananite
  • Start with:  ✪ Magical Secrets, Shinarian language, Oxhouse writing

The Wisdom of Adod is a long, coded text written entirely with a remarkably small set of Glyph symbols. If you start the game with this lore, you have a physical copy of this text in the form of a papyrus scroll. 

On its surface, the Wisdom appears to be a simple, incredibly repetitive song of praise to Lord Adod’s wondrous intellect. On closer inspection, the Glyph markings encode sounds in the Shinarian language—in other words, its actual writing system is Oxhouse, not Glyphs. These sounds, when strung together, form words and sentences of a sprawling magical treatise. 

The decoded text quickly reveals that the title is sarcastic—that the anonymous authors have little regard for Adod or his priesthood. Instead, the treatise describes the magic present in Adod’s cyclone as a natural phenomenon to be studied and harnessed. As such, the Wisdom of Adod is a more cerebral pathway to the Messenger calling. 

The Wisdom also contains extensive commentaries on the foreign magical traditions of Mazr (the Scrolls of the Sorcerer) and Shinar (the Code of the Clay King). The Wisdom thus opens the paths to the Sorcerer and Arbiter callings as well. 

You start with the following ability:

✪ Magical Secrets

✦✧ Intellect  You’ve studied the collected wisdom and translated texts of diverse magical lore. Choose one of the following lore types. You know its starting ability (ignoring its Will requirement, if any).You don’t know the lore itself, nor do you know any language or literacy the lore usually grants (if any). You can’t learn other abilities from the lore until you learn the lore properly during Downtime.   You can, however, use XP to learn Magical Secrets multiple times to gain starting abilities from additional listed lore types.If you learn your chosen lore type properly during Downtime, you can learn one of its non-starting abilities if you can meet its attribute requirement.

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What the Wisdom Says

The Wisdom maintains that Adod is simply a large storm with some degree of sentience, only qualitatively different from a wraith in terms of its massive size. 

Adod’s sentience itself emerges from the Rephaim's interaction with the material substance  and motion of the storm. This lore reveals to you that Adod’s physical essence is not ancient, not invulnerable—and may well be destroyed and devoured by a larger storm system. 

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