Crafting
Inscription
Inscription is the caster support craft. It makes the parchment every scroll wants, and at the top it makes Inscribed Spellbooks that raise the damage of every offensive spell you cast. A mage who has never touched it is casting at a permanent discount to what they could be.
Pressing boards into parchment
| Skill | Board | Becomes |
|---|---|---|
| No requirement | Wood Plank | Wood Parchment |
| 65.0 | Dullwood Plank | Dullwood Parchment |
| 70.0 | Shadowwood Plank | Shadowwood Parchment |
| 75.0 | Copperwood Plank | Copperwood Parchment |
| 80.0 | Bronzewood Plank | Bronzewood Parchment |
| 85.0 | Goldwood Plank | Goldwood Parchment |
| 90.0 | Agawood Plank | Agawood Parchment |
| 95.0 | Veriwood Plank | Veriwood Parchment |
| 99.0 | Valiwood Plank | Valiwood Parchment |
| 100.0 | Blackwood Plank | Blackwood Parchment |
Inscribed spellbooks
Each tier raises the damage of every offensive spell you cast while it is equipped.
| Skill | Spellbook | Parchment | Spell damage |
|---|---|---|---|
| No requirement | Iron Inscribed Spellbook | 10 Wood Parchment | +10% |
| 65.0 | Dull Copper Inscribed Spellbook | 10 Dullwood Parchment | +20% |
| 70.0 | Shadow Iron Inscribed Spellbook | 10 Shadowwood Parchment | +30% |
| 75.0 | Copper Inscribed Spellbook | 10 Copperwood Parchment | +40% |
| 80.0 | Bronze Inscribed Spellbook | 10 Bronzewood Parchment | +50% |
| 85.0 | Golden Inscribed Spellbook | 10 Goldwood Parchment | +60% |
| 90.0 | Agapite Inscribed Spellbook | 10 Agawood Parchment | +70% |
| 95.0 | Verite Inscribed Spellbook | 10 Veriwood Parchment | +80% |
| 99.0 | Valorite Inscribed Spellbook | 10 Valiwood Parchment | +90% |
| 100.0 | Blackrock Inscribed Spellbook | 10 Blackwood Parchment | +95% |
Runes and the books that hold them
A Recall Rune is bought from any Mage Shop, not scribed — what a scribe makes is the scroll that teaches the spell, and the books that file the runes away. Every cost below is base-tier Wood Parchment; the tier ladder does not apply here, the volume is the point.
| Skill | Item | Cost | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| 45.0 |  Scroll of Recall | 10 Wood Parchment + 1× Black Pearl, 1× Blood Moss, 1× Mandrake Root | Read into a spellbook to learn Recall, or bind into a Runetome as one charge. The only spell scroll that cannot be ground back into dust. |
| 50.0 |  Runebook | 250 Wood Parchment + 100 Arcane Dust | Holds 10 runes, each with its own Recall button. |
| 100.0 |  Runetome | 1,000 Wood Parchment + 500 Arcane Dust | Holds 30 runes and banks up to 50 Recall charges. A charge travels without spending reagents. |
Recalling from a page is still casting the spell: it wants the mana, the reagents, 30 Magery and a spellbook that knows Recall. The book only saves you hunting through your pack for the right stone. Spend a Runetome charge instead and the reagents are waived — everything else is still owed.
Know Gate Travel and every marked page gains a Gate button beside Recall. It casts the seventh-circle spell at that rune — 40 mana, 70 Magery, its own three reagents, never a tome charge — and instead of carrying you there it opens a moongate where you stand for 30 seconds, and its twin at the far end leading back. Click a gate to step through it: you, and anyone standing at either end, may go there and back until both close together, and everyone comes out on the same spot, right at the far gate. A gate to your own house brings whoever follows in as your visitor, and so does one opened from inside it; a gate to a friend's house admits only those that friend would let in anyway.
A book must be ON you to travel from it. One in your bank still opens and can be tidied, but its Recall buttons go quiet — the same rule your reagents have always followed. A Bless Deed from the Virtue Shop will keep a book, and every rune inside it, through death.
Tomes
Grandmaster work: 95 Inscription, and the same base-tier Wood Parchment by the thousand. Each one swallows a whole category of clutter that would otherwise eat your pack and your bank. A Tome can be locked down in your house, unlike a rune book — there is nothing to cast off it, so nothing is lost by putting it on the floor.
| Skill | Tome | Cost | What it files away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 95.0 |  Map Tome | 1,000 Wood Parchment 2 Pristine Leather | 6 kinds |
| 95.0 |  Skill Scroll Tome | 1,000 Wood Parchment2 Pristine Leather | 43 kinds |
| 95.0 |  Dye Tub Tome | 1,000 Wood Parchment2 Pristine Leather | 72 kinds, each shown in its own colour |
A Tome binding can fail, and it takes the pages with it. Raw skill alone will not move it: the odds sit at 40% anywhere from the 95 gate up to 100 — so the average Tome costs closer to 2,500 Wood Parchment than the 1,000 on the label. Gear is the only answer: the roll reads EFFECTIVE Inscription, and at 120 it reaches 80%. Bind with your best quill and band on.
The Rite Binder
The one thing a scribe makes that has nothing to do with casting. Cryptic Texts turn up on the dead in the dungeons, and a binder presses seven of one kind into a volume that can be read. Base-tier Wood Parchment again — the volume is the point, not the tier.
| Skill | Item | Cost | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60.0 |  Rite Binder |  100 Wood Parchment 1 Crafting Lace | Binds 7 Cryptic Texts of one kind into a volume you can read. Pressing the texts never fails, and it spends the press along with the pages. |
Making the press is the part that can fail, and it is the expensive part. At exactly 60 Inscription it is a coin flip — half the time the lace parts and takes the 100 pages with it. Since a boss only answers a summons once a week per character, that is a week gone. Reaching 100 takes it to 95%; the roll reads EFFECTIVE Inscription, so a good quill and a band count toward it. Press your luck at 60 only if you can spare the lace.
Crafting Lace is the half you cannot scribe: it comes off the bosses at 10% a kill, and any boss will do — the cheapest one you can field pays the same lace as the deepest. Since a boss can only be summoned once a week per character, the lace, not the parchment, is what decides how many binders you ever make.
At 100 Inscription every offensive spell you cast lands 10% harder, permanently. A mage who skipped this is casting at a discount.
Inscription is what keeps Magic Reflection working. While the ward is up, a spent charge comes back on its own — every 30 seconds at 100 Inscription, every 60 at 50, every 120 at 25. The wait scales straight off the skill, so every point shortens it. At 0 Inscription the charge never comes back, and the spell is a single charge per cast.
That same milestone grinds every spell scroll in your pack to dust automatically. Scrolls of Recall are the one exception — they are exempt, so a stack you scribed to charge a Runetome survives.
Everything on this page trains Inscription, and it trains in proportion to the parchment it spends — a 250-sheet Runebook teaches 250 times what a single sheet does. So there is no "training recipe" to grind and no penalty for making the thing you actually wanted; whatever you scribe, reaching Grandmaster costs the same parchment in the end. Binding by hand out of your pack and binding at a Crafting Bench train identically. A failed binding still teaches you — the pages were spent either way.
Rares
Five yard pieces found only by working this skill. Any work at the skill can turn one up — every swing or craft, success or failure, and the hours you put in while logged out as well. Each stands in your yard or your house, carries its own story on its tooltip, and trades like any other item.
| Piece | Its story |
|---|---|
 The Chained Lectern | An oak lectern with a heavy book chained to it by the spine — not to stop anyone stealing it, the librarians of the Lycaeum insist, but to stop it wandering off. It turns its own pages at night. In the morning it is always open at a different chapter, and never at the last. |
 Scroll Pigeonholes | Forty-nine pigeonholes, forty-eight scrolls, and one empty hole that every scribe who ever owned it has tried to fill. Whatever goes into the forty-ninth is gone by morning, with a blank scroll left neatly rolled in its place. The Lycaeum has written several papers on it. They went in the hole. |
 The Colossal Inkwell | An inkwell the size of a milk churn, with a quill plucked from a bird nobody in Britannia will admit to having seen. It was filled once, by a scribe with ambitions, and has not needed topping up in two hundred years. The quill will write in any hand but its owner's. |
 Tower of Unfinished Manuscripts | Every book a Vesper scribe ever started and never finished, stacked in the order he gave up on them, with his candle still on top. There are three hundred and twelve. The last one is a treatise on finishing what you start, and it gets as far as chapter two. |
 The Illuminated Leaf | A single leaf of vellum in a gilt frame, lettered in gold leaf and lapis by a scribe who spent nineteen years on its first capital. The rest of the page took an afternoon. It is the most beautiful thing ever written in Britain, and it is a laundry list. |