Inspired by a post over at Grymvald Gazetteer, I decided to borrow a bit of reality to spice up my fancy. The end result is below. I hope you like it.
The Cookbook of Cora Underbough is a
thick, worn tome, whose flyleaf declares it to be the possession of one Cora
Underbough. In faded ink, almost illegible from a heavy scraping, another name
is present. Contained within the similarly scraped and flour-stained, bleached pages of the
book, a variety of recipes are laid out with all the care and precision of a
wizard’s spell book.
However, remnants of the book’s previous purpose remain in
faint illustrations and tightly printed paragraphs.
At some point, the book served as the journal of a half-elf
sage, who used it to chronicle the strange flora and fauna of his
journeys. The story of the book does not
end there, however. When first starting
his studies, the sage was in need of binding materials to fortify his journal
and ensure its longevity. It was his fortune that the remnants of an
unfortunate adventurer-wizard’s spell book came into the possession of the
village bookbinder. A thorough study of
the cookbook will reveal, to those of arcane knowledge that remnants of the spell
book remain. Careful dissection of the spell book will provide enough material
for an industrious magic user to transcribe
Sleep, Knock, and Crystal Ball.
After dissection, the cookbook will need be reassembled in some fashion,
whether as a portfolio, or rebound as a proper book.
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