Blessed Bibliophilia

Level: [arcanist 6, cleric 6, oracle 6, sorcerer 6, warpriest 6, wizard 6]
Casting Time 10 minutes
Components V, S, M (valuable offerings; see text), F (one book)
Range touch
Effect a vestige of the god Nethys imbues a book with a negotiable degree of power
Duration instantaneous (see text)
Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no

Casting this spell constitutes performing a rite of sacrifice to the god Nethys, making an offering to The All-Seeing Eye, and channeling a measure of his might into a single book. The power and abilities of this vestige correspond directly to the value of the offering, allowing for three distinct effects.

In addition to the effects of any of these offerings, should the focus be injested, the imbiber is rendered sterile while the magic is in effect.

## Seer Book

Making a sacrifice worth 1,500 gp enchants the focus into a scrying focus for 1 month. Any creature that bears the book gains a bonus or penalty (decided by the caster at the time of casting) on all Knowledge Arcane, Knowledge Religion, Knowledge Planes, and Knowledge Nature checks. This bonus or penalty is equal to 1 per 3 caster levels (maximum +5 at 15th level). In addition, the book can produce an effect similar to the spell augury once per day—a disk inlay in the back cover spinning when the book is laid flat to reveal a weal, woe, or uncertain result via iconography on the disk. Potentially unknown to the bearer (if different from the caster), the caster can telepathically hear any question asked of the book and, as a free action, influence the result as they choose.

## Intellectual Blessing

Making a sacrifice worth 3,000 gp transforms the book into a kind of magical boon for the one who ingests the book. Upon burning the book and ingesting the ashes, the target gains a bonus to Intelligence equal to +1 per 3 caster levels (maximum +5 at 15th level). The bearer’s blood also takes on a hue like ink and runs slowly, granting them immunity to poison, disease, and aging effects, and causing him to automatically stabilize if reduced to fewer than 0 hit points. Additionally, the bearer can ingest books to heal himself, regaining 1 hit point for every 20 gold worth of books they are able to consume (this is most effective with spellbooks and scrolls, the magic in the effected's blood allowing them to "ingest" magical writing off the paper, removing the contents and magic as if by a powerful erase spell). The boon effects last for 1 day per caster level.

## Library Guardian

Making a sacrifice worth 6,000 gp allows the focus book to animate nearby books, scrolls, and other sources of recorded knowledge set aside for this purpose. When cast into a pile of 100,000gp worth of books and other literary wealth, an animate book golem forms under the control of the caster. The guardian serves for 1 month. Afer this month, books begin disappearing from the guardian at a rate of 100gp worth per day, reducing the creature’s hit points by 1 per day. When the guardian’s hit points reach 0, the guardian collapses and the focus book is destroyed. Books and scrolls lost from the guardian can be replaced, restoring any lost hit points.

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