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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ciaran" data-source="post: 743276" data-attributes="member: 756">Awaken TomeTransmutation [Runic]Level: Wizard 7Target: Book touched As awaken, but affects a book, scroll or other written work.  An awakened tome has characteristics appropriate to an animated object of its size (see Core Rulebook III, page 17), but its Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma scores are each 2 points less than those of its author.  The tome has senses equal to those of a human, and although it cannot speak, it understands whatever languages it is written in and can rearrange its writings to communicate or to hide its actual contents.  The tome knows everything that is written in it.  It can open itself on request to any desired section, and if sufficiently intelligent, it can draw inferences based on its contents in response to specific questions.Each awakened tome has its own distinct personality, based on an amalgam of the author’s personality and the book’s own subject matter.  Books of military history tend to be aggressive, travelers’ guidebooks like to wander off on their own, and so forth.</blockquote>