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Legend
If Rusty's "face" could move, it would have a blank expression at the moment. After a very long pause, Rusty finally says, "I...dent...if...y?" and points at the book.
A raspy chuckle leaves the floating spellbook, which nods sagely as if he were in on the joke with Rusty. "Right you are, you rusty bucket. Such pedestrian spells really are better suited to one's apprentices. Ah hah! A double entendre! I am Shandrizar," The downward bob of his paper head indicates he might be simulating a bow. Seeing the blank expression on Rusty's face persist, the spellbook elaborates.
"You may know me as Shandrizar the All-Seeing? Eponymous Archmage of the All-Seeing Circlet? No? Ah! Maybe you know it as Shandrizar's True Seeing? No? Hmm." Whoever this disguised arcanist was they were good at keeping a poker face. Judging by the slot behind the face mask he assumed was for a phylactery, Shandrizar wondered if he was conversing with a transmuter by correspondence or perhaps a master necromancer whose soul was bound to the object. Hopefully it wasn't another illusionist; that would be too much!