Montwyte L1-3 Bibliomancy

Bibliomancy - "Augury by Tomes " - Spell (Divination)

Level 1-3 Initiate

Summary: Caster seeks clues and insights through bibliomancy.

Element: Air

Requirements: Power symbol, Magik Seal , chant, meditation , ingredients

Effect: Caster goes to the nearest source of collected books, maps, scrolls, etc after the ritual and selects on instinct one tome which is opened at random. The information contained on that set of pages...perhaps all of it or just one obvious word..are the clue. It's being given by the chaotic otherworldly beings so it's never going to be clear or direct except in special cases where the subject or topic of the divination falls within their spheres of influence.

Duration: varies, player waits for correspondence in regard to their scrying.

Material: Incense, Magik seal prepared on a scroll which is burnt, library or study of at least 23 books, the more comprehensive and or arcane....the better

Chant: "(power chant), I (power name) walk quietly now to the place of tomes, listening carefully for the whispers of the ancients, the sleepers, the things that lurk in darkness and the void beyond it.. In that place of words lead my hand to the knowledge that travels by no understandable means. (power chant), (power word)
Example Chat Log:

RP Example: - Bibliomancy
1/13/2013 @ Manor room#11 & library
[15:36] Montwyte Blackrain lay his power symbol on the scribing desk and unpacked his illumination kit carefully. The ink for the divination scroll in mind had a wide range of flexibility unlike some other rote. The ink he used this evening included elements that combined a few different locations around Goatswood.
[15:39] Montwyte Blackrain stirred in the power that included the following items: acorns from the Ravenswood, tiger hair from the Folly rug, ivy from the Wildman decorations, webs from the manor's cockpit, and coal from the bin by the station.
[15:43] Montwyte Blackrain shook the vial for a while and concentrated on the question for the divination seal. Rather than having a specific person or group in mind the town itself was the object of his primary curiosity. Choosing the owl feather pen he cut in wet black ink the design that would be burnt when completed . Then it's ashes would be collected and taken to the library for a later step in the spell.
[15:45] Montwyte Blackrain drew the names of otherworld beings know to few, specifically those marked as having the power to bestow insights and madnesses.
[15:50] Montwyte Blackrain dusted the ink with a powder made from ground match heads and waited for it to dry. In the meantime he would settle on the couch and begin a meditation to vacate his thoughts on anything besides the town.
[15:52] Montwyte Blackrain like the natural chaos that infects all pure efforts his ambition began to corrupt the focus on his scrying.
[15:54] Montwyte Blackrain wanted to know which books in the manor library would better facilitate his studies and experiments. He'd try to return mind to the town but it was too late and both ideas had merged for a while.
[16:01] Montwyte Blackrain realizing it was done he returned to the desk and added those thoughts to the scroll as well. Written out in a language for strange symbols the second ring was finished and powdered. A small censer was given a coal and upon it copal resin which emmitted sweet smoke. Igniting the scroll edge with the coal it was held over the vessel to catch ash crumbs from the crackling offering. Afterward, the censer brass cap was added and it's chain clipped so that it might be carried.
[16:06] Montwyte Blackrain stretched and carried it to the manor library, entering slowly offering the chant. "Mare vim hyu vith tir, I Voidstar.. walk quietly now to the place of tomes, listening carefully for the whispers of the ancients, the sleepers, the things that lurk in darkness and the void beyond it.. In that place of words lead my hand to the knowledge that travels by no understandable means,mare vim hyu vith tir...smoke bend." [16:12] Montwyte Blackrain watched the smoke curl and rise in the room. Hoping for a minute the dust wouldn't be too bad he noticed one area where a thermal layer had built up a concentration.
Within that a swirling eddy that played at the binding of one book in particular. Mont set the censer outside the door and climbed the ladder to reach to tome. He took a seat on the ledge and read the title before opening somewhere within and putting down a finger. It was from there he began to read, wondering what might come of the divination and if the tome in hand was a clue about Goatswood or personal magik empowerment.
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