The Tome of Glyphs is often spoken with some excitement, more-so among sages and scholars. It is rumoured that this book has never been read in its entirety. Whoever owed it died or lose it before he could reach even half of the thick tome. The tome itself is now locked within a collector’s home who stayed within a remote fief. Many made the journery to have a chance to read the book, but the collector never allows anyone to stay more than an hour within the bare stone chamber which the book is stored.
- Those who has read the book lust after it. It speaks of some obscure knowledge that at first thought is of no import to the reader, but the closer he stays to the book, the more he wishes to delve into it. The current collector of the book charges a price for each reading; at the first, it is restricted to a few silver; then he would ask for gold pieces. Finally, the collector demands the scholar’s soul, which usually the desperate scholar would answer without thinking through. Just who is that collector anyway?
- The book is a demonic entity which feasts upon the desires of others; the more people covet it, the more power it draws from those who read from it. In exchange, the reader gains strange powers akin to magic. The reader will slowly lose his will-power and go insane, wrecking havoc with his new-found powers.
- The collector and the book are one and the same. It’s a form of vampire that has to fed on the blood of magic-users, such as mystics and sorcerers, and use his alternate form as the Book of Glyphs as a lure. If a non-magic using profession reads the book, he would be enthralled and would kept on reading. However, a sorcerer would be able to discern that the book contains nothing of import quickly and would leave and this is when the vampire will pounce. The vampire is spreading rumours about the book to draw more victims to him.
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