The Velvet Tome of Hospanykka

The Velvet Tome of Hospanykka is an ancient book bound in deep purple velvet. The cover never seems to accumulate dust. The book is an informal accumulation of notes and scribblings on various arcane subjects. There is debate among scholars as to whether the writings represent the thoughts of a single individual or multiple authors.

There is a copy of the book in the library at the Shattered Temple in Sigil.

Excerpt 1:"It is known that the language of the ancient Zenythri has esoteric and inscrutable properties. The spoken language has been lost in the mists of history, only written characters remain. These are bizarre and unsettling glyphs with strange geometric properties and fascinating mathematical implications. Words written in the language resist magical deciphering and all the usual spells may be applied to them without revealing their meaning. The only known Zenythri word which has an accepted pronunciation (although there is no consensus as to a translation) is 'Adoransh' or sometimes the related 'Adyraant,' which has strange numerological properties. In fact upon entering the astrolo-phonetical equivalents into my own formulae the result was, dare I say, incendiary, and my eyebrows have not yet grown back. Perhaps an area for future research."