Appearance: This tome is thin,
bound in black leather, and bears the
title Eiyromancia on the cover, stamped
and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The
edges of the tome have all about been
protected with beaten copper strips,
and these are fitted with two clasps.
The clasps are unlatched by twisting a
silver knob on each; if the bottom knob
is twisted without first twisting and
removing the top one, a poisoned needle
springs up the side of the knob. The
assassin Nathode says it is coated with
Type D (or equivalent intensity) insinuative
poison, apparently renewed from
a reservoir under the binding. Nathode
did not handle the tome himself, but
observed its effect upon another. His
testimony verifies a folk legend which
says that all who try to open Nchaser's
Eiyromancia die.

Nathode's recollection dates back seven
winters, when the book was brought
to the court of Lord Nasher by a merchant,
one Furjur the Flippant, who
told the Lord that the tome was sold to
him by a band of adventuring dwarves
he encountered in a clearing deep in
the northern forests. One of the members
of Nasher's court attempted to
open the book, with fatal results (this is
what Nathode observed), and it was
placed unopened in the Lord's library
(Furjur had gifted it to the Lord in
return for a charter). It was subsequently
stolen during the riots of the
Five Fires Rising, and its present whereabouts
are unknown.

History and Description: The mage
Nchaser has not been seen for nearly
twenty winters. Before his disappearance
disappearance
Nchaser wandered the Realms,
working and seeking after magic, and
upon two occasions served as an advisor
to a local ruler. On the second of
these occasions, while serving the High
Captains of the city of Luskan, Nchaser
wrote the Eiyromancia and gave it to
the High Captain Taerl. Some time after
Nchaser's departure, the tome was
stolen, and like its author it has wandered
the Realms ever since. Alustriel, the
High Lady of Silverymoon, had it briefly,
gifting it to a dwarf of the Citadel
Adbar. The dwarf never returned
home, and the book was lost again?and
so it has gone through the years.
Contents: The wizard Arbane, who
saw the book briefly while it was at
Luskan (he was friend to the High Captain
Suljack), reports that it contains
four magic-user spells:
Nulathoe's Ninemen
(pronounced Nin -em-en), a unique
spell of the fifth level used to protect
and preserve a dead body;
Nchaser's
glowing globe, a unique spell of the
fourth level which is used in the creation
of luminous globes, and the rare
spells part water and statue.

A unique spell is a spell not commonly
available, found only in the text in question
or else believed to have been first
set down therein. In some cases it
means only that the text in question is
the earliest surviving source of the
spell. The first of the unique spells was
devised by Nchaser's tutor Nulathoe,
and the second is of Nchaser's invention.
By the kindness of Arbane the
Mighty, both are reproduced below.
 
 

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