Timothy Taters "Maps of Faerun" is famous, not so much for being a record of where things are, as a good record of where things were.
The lore surrounding this famous tome is thick and well spoken in the inns and taverns of just about every nation in Faerun, the detail changes and grows with every telling but the core of the story is constant.
Timothy Taters was a human adventurer and devotee of Selune. He spent much of his life exploring, on land and sea, and recording the wonders he found. At some point he decided that he would make a map of Faerun. Why? Remains a mystery, but he was good to his vision and, over the course of many adventures and travels he made a detailed record of the lands of Faerun. The final book was completed in the year 987 having taken nearly two thousand years to complete.
The book he offered to Selune as an offering and sign of his devotion. Selune took it and was pleased but instead of taking the book she created twenty faithful copies and gave them back to Timothy Taters. Faithful in all respects but one. In each copy she removed page 15. No one knows why, but it is certain that, in the eight remaining copies, page 15 has been removed.
Rumor has it that the original, the one hand crafted by Timothy Taters own hand, is the only one to still have the missing page 15. The only one to hold the ultimate secret of this wondrous tome.
Wondrous why you say? because it tells you where things were, and for an adventurer, that means gold. The book took so long to make that cities rose to great might and fell within the time it took to complete the work. Of the cities that are noted in the book many are now just ruins, waiting to be found and pillaged for their hidden wealth. No adventurer should be without a copy, which is a little hard as there are many adventurers and only eight copies.
Richard Lestry owned one such copy and this most famous of tomes has been lying in his study since he left for his last fateful adventure. Many of the pages are annotated by Richard and his brother Mortimer. You suspect it is these notes and the potential secrets they hold that prevented the cash strapped Mortimer from selling the book. For certain Richard Lestry died with a secret, one which Mortimer Lestry was desperate to know, and one that drove him close to madness and beyond bankruptcy to find out. Does the book hold the secret? You may never know ...
What ever the reason Mortimer kept the book, you now own it, and who knows where that might lead you.
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Sounds very interesting. I like Sea of the Dead. I suspect no matter what you come up with as a mod name it might have been used before. Such is life though.
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