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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Spells of the Realms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 ... .. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .4 Mage Sigils in the Realms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Mhzentul’s Runes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 6 Myrl’s Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 7
Spellbooks
The Nathlum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4 Nchaser’s Eiyromancia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 7
Against the Undead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 The Alcaister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Orjalun’s Arbatel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 8
The Arcanabula of Jume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 Aubayreer’s Workbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 4
Sabirine’s Specular . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 0 The Scalamagdrion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2
The Book of Bats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 6 Book of Shangalar the Black . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 8
Selvar’s Ineffable Conjurations, Magic, and Phantasms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4
Book of the Silver Talon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0 Bowgentle’s Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4
The Shadowtome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8 Shandaril’s Workbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 0
Briel’s Book of Shadows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6
The Spellbook of Daimos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 3 Studies in Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 5
Caddelyn’s Workbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 8 The Chambeeleon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 0 The Codicil of White . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1 The Collected Wisdom of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Daltim’s Tome of Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5 Darsson’s Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1 Detho’s Libram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 0 Elminster’s Traveling Spellbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2
Tasso’s Arcanabula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 0 8 Tidings of Conflict and Woe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 0 Tome of the Covenant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 3 Tome of Rathdaen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 5 Tym’s Monstrous Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 7 Unique Mageries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1 9 Vaerendroon’s Ineffable Enchantments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 2 Wizards’ Workbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 4
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7 The Glandar’s Grimoire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 9 Glanvyl’s Workbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1
INDEX
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WIZARD PORTRAITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127
INDEX
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ARCANE LORE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 7
INDEX
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SCROLL INKS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 7
Jaluster’s Orizon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3 Kyristan’s Mysteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 6
INDEX
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SPELLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 8
Laeral’s Libram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1 The Libram of Lathintel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3
N EW M ONSTERS Tome Guardian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 Scalamagdrion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
The Magister . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 5
Disenchanter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Any rogue can craft a spell—but spell—but it takes a really reckless fool to write one down.
While some of the spells presented in this book have appeared previously (including the earliest magazine versions recently republished in the Enc yclope ycl opedia dia Magi ca™ volumes), the text as presented here should take precedence. Many of the spells originally presented in DRAGON® Magazine were later reproduced in a more developed form in the Forgotten Realms Adventures hardbound. In this work, the opportunity has been taken to correct some minor errors and also to match the current format for spell presentation. In order to make the spells easier to reference, the spell level of each has been included in the spell information. After the text describing the books themselves, the spells are presented in order of spell level, with the spells of each level in alphabetical order. Finally, DMs in particular are directed to Elminster’s introduction. The materials herein are quite potent in game terms and are perhaps best suited to NPC wizards, at least at first. It is far easier to add a new spell to a campaign than to remove one if it doesn’t work out. Scrolls are a good way to let player characters experiment with unusual spells. Likewise, a campaign that has a low level of magic will likely be greatly disrupted if a volume like the Alca Al cais iste ter, r, which contains more than forty spells, comes into the permanent possession of a low- or midlevel character.
Even the three-fold curse of Mystra does not stop some individuals, though it daunts all but the most clever and blackhearted rascals. The curse applies to everyone, nonmages as well as mages, and is triggered even if the offender used some other agency (spell, charmed individual, or such) to copy the sigil. Among wizards of good and neutral alignment, copying another’s sigil is considered nasty business, on a level with using fool’s gold to pay debts and forging another’s name to a letter.
In this accessory, the sigil given in the description of a magical tome is that of the wizard to whom the book is attributed.