Codex Arcana, Vol VIII

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STUDENTS AND SCHOLAR: Attend our Abjurations! SHOWING DUE PROPRIETY IN THE CUSTODY OF BOOKS We not only render service to the Emperor in preparing volumes of new books, but also exercise an office of sacred piety when we treat books carefully, and again when we restore them to their proper places and commend them to inviolable custody; that they may rejoice in purity while we have them in our hands, and rest securely when they are restored to their repositories. And surely next to the vestments and engines dedicated to the Emperor's glory, arcane books deserve to be rightly treated by the battlemage, to which great injury is done so often as they are touched by unclean hands. Wherefore we deem it expedient to warn our students against various negligences, such as might be easily avoided and which do wonderful harm to books. Being a partial index of arcane contrivances known to the scholars and alchemists of Battlespire, that these contrivances might more readily be known to all students, and neither abused, nor neglected, nor wasted in their employment. Longsword of the Noble Flesh:provides castings of the spell Resistance to Poison, and gifts its owner with special insight into the disciplines of BLUNTWEAPON Longsword of Winter's Winds: causes Minor Frost Damage, and is schooled with crafts of MYSTICISM Mace of Odious Disorder: engenders Slow, Medium Continuous Damage to Target, and is schooled with crafts of RESTORATION Mace of Dancing Fate: wreaks Major Shock Damage, and gifts its owner with special insight into the disciplines of RESTORATION Mace of Vengeance: wreaks Major Magic Damage, and partakes of the excellence of THAUMATURGY Pauldrons of Sacred Honor: casts the spell of Medium Shield, and is schooled with crafts of MISSILE Pauldrons of the Mischievous Hand: casts the spell of Spell Reflection, and gifts its owner with special insight into the disciplines of MYSTICISM Pauldrons of the Monkey's Apprehension: conceives the spell of Detect Enemy, and partakes of the excellence of ILLUSION Pauldrons of Winter's Winds: causes Minor Frost Damage, and is informed by the arts of ILLUSION Short Sword of Final Virtue: wreaks Major Fire Damage, and is informed by the arts of THAUMATURGY Short Sword of the Sunken Gods' Awakening:provides castings of the spell Summon Horror, and gifts its owner with special insight into the disciplines of RESTORATION Short Sword of the Inner Eye: conceives the spell of Resistance to Magic, and partakes of the excellence of AXE Short Sword of Vengeance: wreaks Major Magic Damage, and is schooled with crafts of STEALTH