Item:Small book
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| small book | |
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| Look: | The slim quarto volume is bound in glossy, dark brown leather with a pebbled, almost scaly texture to it. Its few pages are edged in gold, and a red silk ribbon is sewn into the binding. An unmistakeable aura of magic surrounds the book. Your fingers are drawn to it almost involuntarily, and you feel a strong conviction that the first person to rub the book will forge a special bond with it. It is now open.
As you rub the book, you feel a momentary weakening, as if some power had passed from you to the book. The slim quarto volume is bound in glossy, dark brown leather with a pebbled, almost scaly texture to it. Its few pages are edged in gold, and a red silk ribbon is sewn into the binding. Your name is inscribed on the cover in letters of gold leaf. It is now open. |
| Weight: | 5 stones |
| Metal: | Unknown |
| Appraised Cost: | 12,500 Kronars10,000 Lirums <br />9,020 Dokoras <br />12.5 LTBpoints <br />12.5 Tickets <br />12.5 Scrips <br /> |
| Properties: | |
| Dimensions: | ? length x ? width x ? height |
| Sources: | Source is Squat Bungalow (1), Return to Taisidon |
Comes unbonded, rub to bond, changes the LOOK.
Contents
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1
You open the book to the first page. The leaf is a creamy vellum, around which sinuous shapes in forest green, leafy yellow-green, and bright orange outline the sides, top, and bottom. In the center, in bold black letters, are the words:
- Shho'i'yvvh-ur
- The Booke of Dragonnes
2
You open the book to the second page, a glorious illumination from edge to edge. A dragon with wings outspread coils, its scales shading from red, orange, or yellow to bronze highlights at the tips. In the center of the page, two ice-green eyes glare above a row of fangs in a gaping red maw.
3
You open the book to the third page. A skilled hand has penned a poem here in uncial letters, and the rubricator has colored each noun a brilliant red, with a touch of gold leaf on the capitals.
- Bright the eye and bold its beams,
- Wide the wing that wafts her high,
- Iron the edge of every scale,
- And keen and cold the dragon's cry.
4
You open the book to the fourth page.
- Spare the shape that shades the moon,
- Lean and long she lingers there,
- Banks and bends her gaze below,
- Then plummets prey-ward through the air.
- What waits the falling felon wyrm,
- What forage will her fetching find?
- Who goes to greet this screaming guest
- Has mastered dragons of the mind.
5
You open the book to the fifth and final page. Except for a fancy O and D, the page is blank.