This bundle of rough parchment contains scraps of varying shapes and sizes; some appear old and others new. It is bound with a braided cord and secured with a medallion bearing the holy symbol of Wee Jas.

Scrolls of uncertain provenance are not spells stored in written form, but collections of death-obsessed writings in an unknown hand. Popular myth holds that those who can command the lore contained in a set of these scrolls have power over life and death. As long as you possess scrolls of uncertain provenance, you gain a +5 competence bonus on Knowledge checks, provided that you are lawful neutral, lawful evil, lawful good, or neutral.

Relic Power: If you have established a proper divine connection, you can attempt to read from the scrolls once per day for 1 hour. Understanding their lore, however, is not an easy task. To begin with, the scrolls are written in nearly every language, ancient and modern, and the text sometimes switches languages within the same sentence. Thus, a successful hour of reading requires a successful DC 20 Knowledge (religion) check. You receive a +2 bonus on the check for every language you speak. So cryptic are the scrolls that even read magic, comprehend languages, or other spells don’t help you understand them, nor does the Decipher Script skill.

Time	Benefit
1 hour	Renewal pact for yourself
2 hours	Renewal pact for another
3 hours	Death pact for yourself
4 hours	Death pact for another
6 hours	True resurrection for another (and the scrolls disappear)

If your check is successful, you gain temporary understanding of one of the scrolls’ secrets depending on how long you have spent reading them. Your hours of successful reading stack for this purpose, so you can read over multiple days to gain a greater benefit, if desired. The time spent need not all be spent at once; you can divide it as you choose for the purpose of gaining benefits. Reading scrolls of uncertain provenance is not without risk, since delving into their mysteries draws you near to the border between life and death. Whenever you spend an hour reading scrolls of uncertain provenance, you must roll on the following table, whether or not you learn anything useful.

d%	Effect
01–10	Go insane (as the insanity spell); Will DC 20 negates.
11–30	The scrolls bestow a permanent curse upon you, applying a –4 penalty on attack rolls, saves, ability checks, and skill checks; Will DC 20 negates.
31–60	Receive a geas/quest to perform for Wee Jas; Will DC 20 negates.
61–90	Gain 1d6 negative levels (Fort DC 20 removes them after 24 hours).
91–100	Become a ghost for a year and a day; Fort DC 20 negates.

To use the relic power, you must worship Wee Jas and either sacrifice a 6th-level divine spell slot or have the True Believer feat and at least 11 HD.

Lore: Scrolls of uncertain provenance have long been associated with Wee Jas, although even her lorekeepers don’t know where the first ones came from (Knowledge [religion] DC 15).
In fact, they were penned by beings that lost their sanity in the pursuit of arcane knowledge and collected by agents of Wee Jas for the sake of the knowledge they contain (Knowledge [religion] DC 20).

Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, Sanctify Relic, death pact (SC 60), renewal pact (SC 173), true resurrection.
Cost to Create: 4,000 gp, 320 XP, 8 days.