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The Tabula Rasa is one of the legendary artifacts of Aethos, an ornate slate, prepared for text, but empty of words.
Appearance
The Tabula Rasa is a gray slate without imperfection or mar. The artifact varies wildly in size, depending on which legend you favor, but is usually small enough to carry. Both sides are emblazoned with lines around the space in which text might have been written, with a decorative image of a grape vine carved above the blank body.
Powers
The power of the Tabula Rasa varies from tale to tale, but it is supposedly able to steal identity from those around it. According to legend, those who remain about it too long are compelled to reveal more and more to it, and eventually end up drooling husks, unable to speak, or learn, or think.
It may or may not have powers of levitation, the ability to absorb all force and magic, the power to control minds, the power to re-shape the world about it, and omniscience.
The Gray Book
The first known account of this artifact comes from a passage in the Gray Book, but is routinely omitted from copies. This passage is taken from the Master Tome of the Faithful from the Conclave at Endheim-
...and from among the servants of the gods who had forsworn themselves, the Gray Lord chose fivescore, and he said to them "If you will give your hearts to me, and your lives to me, then you must, too, give your words to me." And the men agreed, for they knew that it would be death should they return apostate to their villages. "Then take you this tabula rasa, and take it to a secret place. All the servants of the gods shall give thee aid, but know not why. There, you shall place it far beneath the earth, where only the dark spirits of the rocks dwell, and place this there. And the whole of this time, you shall speak not a word, if you value your being. For it is better to die here and be claimant of no god than to have spoken and had the Rasa answer."
Historical Note
Legend states that the Tabula Rasa is responsible for the fall of several empires, and indirectly responsible for the disappearance of the Elven races of Ter'Desthera. This is considered unfounded as of this time.
