Editing Incunabulum (section)

==Behavior==
The Incunabula are obsessed with knowledge; masters of [[Necromancer|necromancy]], [[Enchanter|enchantment]], [[Conjurer|conjuration]] and [[psionics]], their driving goal is to collect as much information as possible, and through this unlock the secrets of the multiverse. This is why they have common cause with [[Vecna]]. It is true that the vast majority of what the Incunabula have gathered over the eons is junk, but the secrets of true value they have unlocked keep them relentlessly interrogating the living and the dead alike. Their most feared method of doing so is the dreaded Unveiling, a dark ritual in which an individual is ceremonially prepared before [[Illithid|their brain is extracted and eaten]]; for the next 12 hours, the interrogator has complete awareness of every memory and thought the victim has ever had across their entire lifetime, during which time they frantically strive to transcribe as much information as possible. Obviously, this is fatal to living subjects, but variants of the ritual exist for undead or spiritual subjects... which likewise end in the utter extinction of the subject's soul, rendering them deader than dead.

Despite this, the Incunabula are not pure evil; they do what they do because they have a reason and it's even a relatively rational reason. Beyond that, they don't mindlessly murder everyone they encounter; the Incunabula are quite capable of coexisting with other races and even trading with them, for all their burning drive.

Ironically, despite their own necromantic prowess and their readiness to associate with [[lich]]es and [[mummy|mummies]], Incunabula strive to avoid dealing with the so-called "hungry dead" - [[ghoul]]s, [[vampire]]s and any other undead creature that must feed on living beings to sustain itself - wherever possible. Whether this is due to pragmatism or simple distaste is something that they keep to themselves.

Fun fact: the term "incunabula" is actually taken from the name for a kind of printed book created before 1501.

Despite the similarity of their names, they have no connection to the [[Greyhawk|Oerthian]] God of Disease, [[Incabulos]].

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