Appearance
A stout, battered book of embossed and
painted cowhide stretched over wooden
boards, edged and clasped about
with iron. It is battered, brown, and
radiates a faint dweomer (see below). It
contains twelve pages, each a thin plate
of slate upon which vellum has been
stretched and clamped with beaten
electrum edgings. Seven pages are
blank; the first five bear spells, one to a
page.

History and Description
An orizon is a book in which a fartraveling
mage inscribes spells found or
gained while exploring or traveling far
from home. This is done also when one
believes a spell can be improved or isn’t
quite right; it is only later, at home and
leisure, and with the spell perfected,
that the mage sets down spells in the
orizon into his or her proper, level-bylevel
spell books. Thus, an orizon is usually
a jumble of spells of varying levels,
sometimes interspersed with spell
research notes or other information, or
even spells usable only by other classes.
Most of the books described in these
pages and other locations, including the
DM’s Sourcebook are orizons.

Jaluster was a mage who never
ceased to travel; he filled many orizons,
but always sold them after transcribing
the spells into his proper books. The
orizon that bears his name today is the
one he carried, incomplete, at his death.
Jaluster was torn apart by demons in
Ascalhorn (now known as Hellgate
Keep) as he tried to save that city from
their domination. He is said to have
destroyed three liches and at least five
demons that day ere he died. His orizon
was borne out of the city by the bard
Maerstar, one of the four survivors of
the fall of Ascalhorn. Maerstar was later
robbed of it in Everlund, and a trail
of mysteriously-slain owners (see
below) led westwards, but the tome’s
present whereabouts are unknown.
The volume is guarded by a strange
creature, a tome guardian, detailed
below.

The five spells it contains are

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Magic-User Spellbooks

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