Artifact Lore Recording

Roll 1d12 to determine how artifact lore is encoded and accessed: bound to an entity (1), ancient runes in dead languages (2–5), decorative carvings or diagrams (6–7), ciphers or a...

Step 2f follow-up — how does a reader get the lore out of the artifact? Then proceed to form.

Roll 1d12 · Family Artifact Creation · p. 503

d	Result	Detail
1	Known to an entity bound to the artifact	Go back to the Spirit or Sentience Binding table and do what it says.
2-5	Inscribed on or in the artifact: ancient runes or writing in a long-dead language
6-7	Adorning the artifact: carvings, paintings, decorations, diagrams
8-9	Scrawled on or in the artifact: a cypher, mad ramblings, strange annotations
10	As a vision or dream, imparted on whoever touches, enters, or approaches
11-12	Inscribed on or in the artifact: clear to those who can read the language

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