The Tome of Rathden

Appearance
Four scorched pages of parchment—
three complete, one only partially
preserved—kept within a folder of finest
parchment sandwiched between
two polished ivory plates.

History and Description
Rathdaen was a mage of note some seven
hundred years ago, who explored
the Realms extensively, traveling
much and making many friends by
aiding others with his Art. He was
sometimes repaid with magic, and his
Tome is said to have contained close to
sixty of the most colorful and potent
magics known to the spellcasters of five
races. When he died he bequeathed the

  • book to his apprentice, the weakling

    • Narsel, a vain and foolish braggart
    given to insulting others and carelessly
    harming creatures and property with
    his magic. Four pages are all that is left
    of it now; the rest were destroyed
    when Narsel, who was carrying it in his
    pack at the time, was slain in the sky
    above Ironmaster by the mage Sapphail,
    with whom he was duelling.

    Sapphail slew Narsel with a meteor
    swarm, and in the conflagration and
    subsequent fall of Narsel’s charred
    corpse to earth, the Tome was reduced
    to ashes, two cracked slates, and these
    pages, rescued by Sapphail and passed
    on to her apprentices Jorzoon and Iliphel.
    The partial page preserves a fragment
    of polymorph any object (in standard
    PLAYERS HANDBOOK form), too
    incomplete to use, but enough to substantially
    aid spell research and/or recognition
    of the spell written down
    elsewhere. The remaining three pages
    each bear a single unique spell, detailed
    hereafter;

  • ray of Ondovir,
  • icelance, and
  • Xult’s magical doom.

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