Arcanabula of Jume (Magic Book)

This is a rectangular tome, 3 handwidths across by 5 in height, of translucent sheets of polished rock crystal. The sheets are clasped separately to two heavy brass rings and are cut with characters of Ruathlek (the “secret language” of illusionists). Some of the runes are inlaid with colored pastes in ruby red, emerald green, and silver.
An arcanabula in the FORGOTTEN REALMSTM setting seems to be an illusionist’s workbook or traveling spellbook, as opposed to the more complete spell tomes kept in secret by almost all spellcasters. Most arcanabulax are nondescript, although illusionists in the Realms have shown a talent for making their books look like something else—such as a musical instrument, a gaming board, a belt of linked metal plates, and so on.
The Arcanabula in question is uncommonly ornate and formal (as well as unusually beautiful). Assembled by the female wizard Jume, who lived in Baldur's Gate several hundred winters ago, the Arcanabula has unusual protective magic upon it. It acts as a ring of spell turning with respect to magic of any sort cast either upon it or so as to include it in the area of effect. It cannot be shattered. From time to time (a 6% noncumulative chance checked once every 60 days), the book teleports to a random locale in the Realms, regardless of magical barriers, prisons, safeguards, and the like, All we know of Jume today is that she was fat, good-humored, and quite clever in her devising of unique illusionist spells. She was not a specialist in illusions, and the term arcanabula is thus not precisely correct when applied to this tome. Nonetheless, it has come down to present-day Realms lore by that name. The Arcanabula contains four of Jume’s own spells as well as more widely known spells. Its 22 pages contain the following: a front cover bearing Jume's rune; a back cover that radiates a very faint silvery glow (which presumably bears most of the protective spells on the tome), and 20 pages between that are either blank or bear one spell each. The pages contain: audible glamer, change self, gaze reflection, dark mirror (a unique spell), hypnotic pattern, magic mouth, misdirection, dispel magic, non-detection, phantom steed, spectral force, shadow monsters, shadow hand (a unique spell), shadow magic, prismatic eye (a unique spell), shadow gauntlet (a unique spell), true seeing.
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