Szazz Tamm is a powerful lich, and the current longstanding ruler of Thay. His hobbies include necromancy, enslavement, the murder and soul-reaping of his enemies and the puppeteering of their undead corpses, and domination of the entirety of Toril, turning it into a dead world populated only by the legions of undead that are all under his control. I think he also plays the cello.
Thank you for this information, Niara, I must admit I did not know about him.
Since Ilyn Toth had been on the run from Szass Tam, I think he has also most likely stolen the necromancy book from him, to try to bring an unknown person back to life.
Given the hobbies of this gentleman, it seems like a
really good idea for our Tav (or Astarion, or Gale) to try to use this book. What could possibly go wrong? 😄
As a player, it is quite obvious you
maybe shouldn't try to use this book, but I have to try it at least once.
I want to see what kind of disaster my poor well-meaning Tav accidentally causes.
Another possibility could be that the necromancy book had been added in the game to allow players to use the True Ressurection spell, but to not make the use of this spell too easy.
If you only need a large amount of gold to buy the required diamonds, it would be a bit anticlimactic.
