User:Average/Spellmeads

Spellmeads are mages's term for recording spells or scrolls. See papermaking, otherwise it refers to the materials for holding and containing magic: inks, paper, parchments, stone, or enchanted objects.

A scroll is half of an example of spellmead. For what power will help the reader ascern the semantic properties of the written word? An active mead will have a lustrous, dark quality to the ink from whence the emotional quality merges with the reader. Once read, this power fades and the lustre should disappear.

Spellbooks can be made of about any material that can hold ink, and its power is held also by the fact that it is kept safe by the one who wrote it. But if the magic user who wrote it dies or becomes sick, it's magical power can fade, depending on the mead. These qualities can be detected to inform any finder of such spellbooks: that the owner is alive and may have a guild in which the finder can join.

Some inks are special and show their lustre only during certain times, like in the moonlight (ithildin). Using parchments (animal skins) can affect the animal with the alignment of the spell-writer. The consequences of this are unclear.

Spellmead is to mages, like potions are to druids, rings are to leaders...