This tome contains information and incantations necessary to make a darkasher. To decipher and use the manual, you must be a spellcaster with at least two 5th-level spell slots. A creature that can't use a manual of the haruspex and attempts to read it takes 6d6 psychic damage.

To create a darkasher, you must spend 60 days, working without interruption with the manual at hand and resting no more than 8 hours per day. You must also pay 50,000 gp to purchase supplies.

Once you finish creating the darkasher, the book is consumed in eldritch flames. The darkasher becomes animate when the ashes of the manual are sprinkled on it. It is under your control, and you can control and manipulate it telepathically. When it is animated, you take 4d10 necrotic damage that can't be reduced in any way. Your maximum number of hit points is permanently reduced by the amount of necrotic damage taken, and you cannot regain them until you break the connection and kill the darkasher yourself.

Notes: Creation, Consumable