Aubavreer's Workbook (Magic Book)

This book is fashioned of a long strip of green hiexel bark, folded and refolded upon itself accordion-fashion. It is bound, protected, between two rectangular pieces of oiled wood held together with hemp cord. Upon one of the boards s carved a rune, and by this rune the work can be identified as that of the wizard Aubavreer.Aubavreer was a wizard of the Dalelands in to what is now Aglarond, where he founded a sorcerous ruling dynasty that continues to this day. The many works Aubavreer made while High Mage of Aglarond, and later Mage-King, are kept securely in the libraries of the palace there, but the original workbook Aubavreer developed as an apprentice to the Mages of the Covenant has been lost.
Early in the reign of Lurskas, grandson of Aubavreer, thieves broke into the royal libraries. Several were slain by the guardians and protective magic of the place, and these indeed kept the more powerful tomes safe, but the workbook was stolen. It vanished into the debatable lands east and south of Aglarond, and no definite trace of it has been found since, although reports of the activities of several wizards (notably Nuzar of the Seven Curses) have hinted that they had seen Aubavreer's Workbook, or at least copies of the two spells Aubavreer developed which close the work.
That the book still exists is attested to by the unceasing efforts of the royal house of Aglarond to recover it. The present ruler, the shapeshifting Mage-Queen known as “The Simbul” is known to have slain the wizard Thanatus and ransacked the libraries of the school of magic at Mirrorstar in her attempts to seize the workbook.
Aubavreer’s lone apprentice, the now-dead wizard Nytholops, set down in his Chronicles the contents of the workbook, for it was from this book (and no other) that Aubavreer taught him the Art.
There are (or were) 18 faces of folded bark in Aubavreer’s Workbook. The foremost is usually blank; it served as a surface for various magical protections (explosive runes, symbols, and the like) when desired. The next 14 surfaces contain the spells read magic, burning hands, dancing lights, enlarge, identify, light, message, write, ESP, wizard lock, dispel magic, explosive runes, fireball, and extension I. Then follow three special spells—hailcone (Aubavreer's version of ice storm), and two unique spells, Aubavreer's phase trap and thunderlance.
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