Jonathan's spellbook

Jonathan's spellbook is the spellbook of Jonathan River in the campaign Zincirsiz ("Unchained"). Having chosen the way of the scribe-mages at the Archon, Jonathan can call a writing set of inkwell and quill into his hand, write and erase quickly, and keeps a spellbook that has a mind of its own. If the book is lost, he can carry it over into another book and call it back with its spells.¹

Copying spells

Jonathan fills the book as he travels. He copied into it a Sending scroll and a new Clairvoyance scroll brought to him by the scroll-seller Ektelyon, taking only minutes over the latter. Searching a house, he copied ten or fifteen notes of places in the region into the book. Later he wrote in two rituals he had taken, one for sensing living things and one for seeing in magical darkness, working in the back of the wagon on the road south.²³⁴⁵

When the elf commander at Sınır Sapı asked for a list of his spells to judge how he might help, Jonathan showed him the book openly; the commander thought its spells and its mind would be useful.⁶⁷

The spectral book

Reaching into the book with his hand, Jonathan can draw his mind out of it in the form of a ghostly book, visible and faintly glowing. He can see through it, send it some way from himself and cast spells through it. It does not replace his owl Bold; the two can be used together.⁸⁹

In a sheep farmer's house he sent the spectral book inside and put the mother, Lena, to sleep through it so that her children could slip out, then used it as another pair of eyes, with Bold, as the children and the lake were watched. During a Clairvoyance spell he opened the book like the surface of water.¹⁰¹¹

Jonathan says the form can also be called up in the likeness of a person, a scholar, but that the book form cannot speak; it sees, hears and moves. When he sent it down into a lake, it could go only so far from him, and he had to follow it into the water himself.¹²¹³¹⁴

Inside a hall beneath the lake where his own spells would not work, a translation spell cast from outside through the spectral book succeeded, and an unknown script was read through it. When he took the spectral book through holes in a wall, however, something like a barrier snuffed it out. The book itself was not lost and could be called up again, though not at that moment.^15161718