Adventure Guide: Spell Availability

Spells marked as “any” are generally available from anyone, and no great pains are taken to protect them. Many of them are easily discoverable in great libraries, such as the Library at Crosspoint and the Biblyon Library. Such spells are used as bargaining tools to gain other such spells. Spells marked as “unknown” are generally unknown in Highland, unless someone invents them or rediscovers them. Spells marked as “lost” are known to have existed, but are currently unknown.

Other spells are available only by inventing them or by acquiring them from the folks who do know them. In some cases, such as the Astronomers, the folks who do know them are themselves lost. But hope springs eternal, and a sorceror or group of sorcerors occasionally try to find the lost spells of old. Usually they never return. Sometimes they return bedraggled and empty-handed. But once in a while such a group will discover, in some lost castle or ancient book, a spell thought lost forever or never known to have been found. Such are the tales that wizards tell in bars after council meetings and chance encounters with old friends.