Chipped Stone Tablet
- Chipped Stone Tablet
- Binds when picked up
- This Item Begins a Quest
- "You found this discarded on the back of N'zoth. Who, or what, wrote it is unclear."
Chipped Stone Tablet is found near the corpse of the Azq'roth boss encounter during Time Rifts. It starts 
[60-70] A Stony Reception, one of the criteria of 
[Temporal Acquisitions Specialist].
After turning in to Soridormi, the tablet appears nearby, where it reads:
<The script is unfamiliar, but as you stare at it, its meaning becomes known. The experience gives you a mild headache.>
We gave tribute today, as we do every day. The Ancient One continuous[sic] its meditation. The hunger of the Ancient One must be sated.
Strange day today. A familial relation to our tribute ran up and asked to replace our intended sacrifice.
Of course, I thought they wanted the honor of pleasing the Ancient One. Yet when it gibbered and pleaded, it seemed as if it felt they should save our intended tribute.
This perplexed me. The greatest honor a tribute can have is the act of sacrifice!
Naturally, we flayed the interloper's skin and presented it as additional tribute, but its foolish gesture made me pause and think.
Are tributes capable of higher thought? Do they possess their own desires?
I know they are capable of language, and their cleverness makes them more effective at work than other animals, but should we regard them as more than brutish beasts?
Any type of animal can communicate with its own kind, I suppose. Some just happen to meld their tongues to approximate our language. Such a clever trick! They do not speak it well, and they cannot grasp higher concepts... but what if they could?
Perhaps I will try to train one, as an experiment. After all, the pursuit of knowledge is its own reward.
If nothing else, it will make for a unique tribute. Would it be selfish to keep its skin? Yes, perhaps that would be too much. The hunger of the Ancient One must be sated.
All glory to the Ancient One!
Patch changes
Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Added.
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