Sedefkar Simulacrum

According to Professor Julius Smith, the Sedefkar Simulacrum is a statue, a source of great magical evil power. At the end of the 18th century it was reportedly taken apart, and the pieces scattered across Europe.

Paris was where the statue was dismembered. The owner was a noble, Comte Fenalik, who lost it just prior to the French Revolution. You located the left arm of the statue in Poissy, near Paris, on the former grounds of Fenalik's villa.

The torso of the statue was in circulation in Paris just after the Great War, and was sold to someone from Milan. You located the torso in the la Scala opera house, where it had somehow found its way as a prop.

Napoleon's soldiers carried a piece into Venice when they invaded the city. It was sold to Alvise de Gremanci.

Another fragment made its way to Trieste at the same time. Smith does not know what became of it, but advised to look up Johann Winckelmann at the museum there.

There may be a piece in Serbia. Smith advised you to start at the Belgrade Museum. Dr. Milovan Todorovic is the curator.

One part was lost near Sofia during the Bulgarian War in 1875. At the time things of value were hidden from the invaders, so it may be buried somewhere.

In order to destoy the Simulacrum, it must be taken back to its original home, a place in Constantinople known as the Shunned Mosque. There are niches there, in which it once lay. A ritual which will destroy it utterly is included in a set of documents known as the Sedefkar Scrolls.

During your research, you found mention of a Turkman named Sedefkar who lived in the 11th century in Constantinople and accrued great wealth. He had fallen from Islam and had turned against his emir. One night, he reportedly caught a thief in his treasure room and had the man flayed to death on the spot so that he would die in front of the gold he desired. Sedefkar was later hung on the city walls for an unspecified crime during the Fourth Crusade. The link between this Sedefkar and the Sedefkar Simulacrum has not been confirmed.

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