Power: Significant.
Description: A carefully preserved ancient sheet of papyrus once owned by noted German Egyptologist, George Ebers. Sister document to the famed Ebers Papyrus, this artifact is considerably older and describes more explicitly magickal processes than the original medical text, in hieratic Egyptian.
With the right provenance it could be worth quite a bit to the right people.
Effect: Part of a sorcerer’s tome, the papyrus is home to the bound revenant of its original owner. As such the writing has a habit of changing when no one is looking, a detail that escapes the notice of most who can’t read the ancient language it is written in.
Although knowledgeable in matters of sorcery it has proven impossible to communicate with the fragmented demon, who scrawls rituals for treating ancient ills like neutralizing a specific snake venom and protecting crops in between rants against long dead political functionaries and escalating bread prices. The magickal formula are typically useless, either because they don’t work or do but have been superseded by modern technology. There’s always a chance though, the last owner was holding out for that staves to snakes trick from Exodus.
With the right language skills it could be worth killing over to the right people.
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