[Wids]

Rise from your grave, O noble thread. :)


Liber Transfiguratus
Holdable Book, Useable (one use)

"Malivarel the Star-Crazed, a Netherese archmage who believed himself to be descended from the legendary Karsus of the ancients--and an heir to Karsus' legacy--strove to encapsulate all of his life's work and knowledge into one grand grimoire, with enough pages to fill a vast library yet compact enough to fit inside the least of his wayfaring satchels. Unfortunately, for all of Malivarel's ambition, he was no Karsus; though his grimoire indeed held enough arcane knowledge and insight for many archmages, he could not imbue the book with more than enough power to manifest more than one grimoire's worth in lore at any time, and the pages could take anywhere from ten years to a lifetime to reshape their words and glyphs into new knowledge. Malivarel spent the rest of his life madly struggling to complete his intended work but only succeeded in creating more copies of the Liber Transfiguratus, each one as equally broken as the original.

This copy of the Liber Transfiguratus was brought to Thay by the Red Wizard Kheomet Sans, a dilligent evoker who hoped that the book would help him in perfecting his art. But when he opened the grimoire, its pages shifted in hue and revealed themselves to be a lengthy treatise on Conjuration, the one School of Magic beyond his reasoning. Disgusted to see his travels and his research come to such a "worthless" find, he sold the Liber Transfiguratus to the first bookseller he could find for enough Talons to drown his regrets in strong wine. And the Liber Transfiguratus has been changing hands--and changing pages--ever since."

When equipped and Used for the first time, the Liber Transfiguratus transforms into (or, rather, is deleted and replaced with) one of the following books, randomly selected:

• Liber Sanctuarii (imparts Greater Spell Focus: Abjuration when equipped)
• Libro Creationis (imparts Greater Spell Focus: Conjuration when equipped)
• Deceptio est Oculus (imparts Greater Spell Focus: Illusion when equipped)
• Scriptum Idest Igneum (imparts Greater Spell Focus: Evocation when equipped)
• Visus Præter Conspectum (imparts Greater Spell Focus: Divination when equipped)
• Verba ex Animi Rigor (imparts Greater Spell Focus: Enchantment when equipped)
• Sola Mutatio non Mutat (imparts Greater Spell Focus: Transmutation when equipped)
• Codex Vivacissimus (imparts Greater Spell Focus: Necromancy when equipped)
• Gladii ex Cogitatione (imparts Spell Focus: Enchantment and Spell Focus: Illusion when equipped)
• De Utero Translatus ad Tumulum (imparts Spell Focus: Conjuration and Spell Focus: Necromancy when equipped)
• Liber Ferri Candentis (imparts Spell Focus: Evocation and Spell Focus: Transmutation when equipped)
• Intueatur et Magia (imparts Spell Focus: Abjuration and Spell Focus: Divination when equipped)
• Et Cavete ab Infernus (imparts Arcane Defense: Evocation and Arcane Defense: Conjuration when equipped)
• Conspectu Domini (imparts Arcane Defense: Enchantment and Arcane Defense: Divination when equipped)
• Dolus a Perditione (imparts Arcane Defense: Necromancy and Arcane Defense: Illusion when equipped)
• Conflatilem Clypeus (imparts Arcane Defense: Transmutation and Arcane Defense: Abjuration when equipped)
• Liber Veneficae Compedes (imparts Spell Resistance 14 when equipped)
• Codex Pistillis (imparts Brew Potion when equipped)
• Mille Gallinarum Cocta (It's a cookbook! You never burn the meat if cooking with this book equipped, but other than that, this incarnation of the Liber Transfiguratus is a dud.)


Give me a few days and I can even dig through Aurora and knock together a script and some .erf files (except for the meat-cooking thing, of course). Whadayasay? :)