A tome's generation counts its lasting bearer-imprints, including its current attunement. Each available tome is Ninth Generation.
Tomebound
8 available tomes
Inherited magic
Every tome is a supernatural lineage.
A true magical tome is more than a collection of spells. Every attuned mage impresses some part of their magic, personality, discoveries, failures, and life story upon it. Later bearers inherit that accumulated power and add a new layer of their own.
Each tome manifests a djinn: guide, familiar, keeper, and living expression of the book. A djinn can teach its bearer about magic and former owners, but it also has an appetite that shapes whom it accepts and what it encourages.
Open the book, touch its marked page, and convince the appearing djinn that you deserve its magic and will commit to its ideals.
These reliable abilities come from the permanent bond. They remain available even when the physical book is elsewhere.
The book's mechanical bonus applies only while the physical tome is carried by its attuned owner.
Ninth Generation
The Ember Testament
Flame, conviction, inheritance, destruction, and renewal.
A warm iron cover enclosing pages of fireproof black vellum. New writing appears as glowing embers before cooling into silver script.
It wants its bearer to end things that have outlived their rightful purpose, and its concept of “rightful purpose” is a bit loose.
+1 Power to any fire or destruction magic.
Bound djinn
Cinder
A soot-black housecat with cracks of orange light beneath its fur. Cinder is affectionate, lazy, and ruthlessly comfortable with necessary destruction. It naps in open flame and refers to arson as “editing.” It becomes intensely protective of children and apprentices.
Inherited abilities
Attunement Gifts
Ashen Memory
By burning or violently destroying something, the bearer receives useful impressions of its history.
Furnace-Born
The bearer is unharmed by ordinary fire, heat, smoke, and severe cold, can regulate their body temperature at will, and can breathe safely in smoke or ash.
Heartfire
The bearer feels the convictions driving nearby people and is exceptionally resistant to fear, despair, magical coercion, and effects that suppress emotion or will.
Master of the Crucible
The bearer possesses inherited mastery of cooking, smithing, glasswork, ceramics, explosives, and other crafts involving heat, pressure, or carefully controlled transformation.
Phoenix Blood
Heat closes the bearer's wounds, purges common toxins and infection, restores wakefulness, and can gradually repair injuries that would normally leave lasting damage.
Ninth Generation
The Atlas of Roads Not Taken
Travel, thresholds, choices, escape, and unrealized possibilities.
A tall, narrow atlas whose maps redraw themselves whenever it is closed. Its pages show places that exist, once existed, or almost existed.
It wants to cross a threshold no previous bearer has crossed.
+1 Power to any mobility or teleportation spell.
Bound djinn
Elsewhere
A folded-paper fox with inked eyes and too many tails. Elsewhere never walks when it can leap through a pocket, reflection, doorway, or sentence. It is charming, evasive, and terrified of cages.
Inherited abilities
Attunement Gifts
Threshold Sight
Doors, portals, hidden passages, weak barriers, dimensional boundaries, traps triggered by crossing, and nearby escape routes reveal themselves intuitively.
Living Compass
The bearer always knows direction, elevation, distance traveled, the route back to any personally visited place, and whether a chosen destination is moving or lies beyond ordinary space.
Traveler Without Burden
The bearer ignores ordinary fatigue from travel, remains balanced on unstable terrain, passes easily through crowds and rubble, and adapts quickly to unfamiliar routes and vehicles.
Wayfarer's Education
The bearer can communicate basic needs in any language, understands local customs after brief observation, and possesses inherited expertise in navigation, survival, piloting, cartography, and smuggling.
Elsewhere Pocket
The bearer carries a generous extradimensional inventory in which stored objects remain secure and unchanged. They always know its contents and can retrieve the desired item immediately.
Ninth Generation; its record contains deliberate gaps that imply additional, incomplete attunements
The Book of the Second Silence
Silence, secrecy, absence, negation, and mercy from attention.
A soft gray book with no title. Sounds near it are slightly muffled, and readers instinctively lower their voices.
It wants dangerous secrets or stolen goods entrusted to it to grow its collection.
+1 Power to any stealth or secrecy magic.
Bound djinn
Nix
A knee-high gray goblin in an oversized velvet coat. Nix is a cleptomaniac, constantly stealing things nearby. It communicates in stolen voices, gives excellent advice from terrible hiding places, and cannot resist planting mysterious objects where they will cause the most confusion. Nix lies constantly about trivial matters but will keep an entrusted secret against gods and torture.
Inherited abilities
Attunement Gifts
Absent Presence
The bearer moves without unwanted sound, scent, tracks, or magical residue. They leave limited impression in the memories of casual observers.
Notice the Missing
Concealed objects, erased writing, gaps in memory, invisible creatures, and subjects someone is deliberately avoiding stand out as palpable absences.
Private Mind
The bearer is highly resistant to telepathy, emotional manipulation, memory alteration, magical detection, scrying, possession, and compelled disclosure.
Perfect Listener
The bearer can isolate faint sounds through noise and barriers, read lips, recognize mimicry, and notice magical surveillance or concealed listeners.
Inner Quiet
The bearer can slow breath and heartbeat, remain lucid while sleeping, ignore ordinary pain and panic, and enter a stillness that requires almost no air or movement.
Ninth Generation; several prior bearers insist they inherited it tomorrow
The Unreasonable Almanac
Chance, timing, coincidence, prophecy, improvisation, and fortunate mistakes.
A battered travel calendar stuffed with tickets, pressed flowers, losing cards, and appointments for dates that never existed. Its forecasts describe events as probabilities rather than certainties.
It wants the bearer to take risks and come out on top.
+1 Power to any luck, time, or probability magic.
Bound djinn
Mister Tuesday
A three-foot talking plant in an immaculate butler's uniform who carries a silver serving tray everywhere. Mister Tuesday addresses everyone formally and by title. He is somewhat blind to risks, expecting the power of his tome can overcome whatever challenge he puts in its way. He wants the tome owner to achieve greatness and elevate power through any means necessary.
Inherited abilities
Attunement Gifts
Fortune's Favorite
Random accidents, blind guesses, falling debris, games of chance, and other uncontrolled events tend to favor the bearer or create a useful opening rather than a dead end.
Perfect Timing
The bearer reacts with uncanny speed, arrives when most useful, catches things just before they fall, and can coordinate split-second actions with allies almost effortlessly.
Useful Coincidence
Needed mundane objects, overlooked exits, old acquaintances, relevant rumors, and plausible opportunities have a habit of appearing when the bearer actively looks for an answer.
Communion of Life
The bearer communicates with animals, plants, fungi, and other living systems; senses their health and needs; and can ask the local ecology what has disturbed it.
Regenerative Body
Rest, food, sunlight, and contact with thriving life rapidly restore the bearer's stamina and injuries, fully regrowing or repairing severely damaged tissue within a few hours.
Ninth Generation; four prior bearers are said to still dream beneath the sea
The Palimpsest of the Drowned Moon
Water, reflection, dreams, grief, memory, and hidden depth.
Translucent blue pages always slick with water. Writing appears beneath previous writing like shapes seen below a lake's surface.
It wants an ungrieved loss finally mourned.
+1 Power to any water or defense magic.
Bound djinn
Nacre
A floating koi in robes, able to swim through physical objects.
Inherited abilities
Attunement Gifts
Fluid Motion
The bearer can soften impacts, slip through extremely tight spaces, flow around restraints, balance on liquid surfaces, and move with the effortless redirection of water.
Tideborn
The bearer breathes, speaks, sees, and moves freely underwater; ignores ordinary cold, pressure, and slippery terrain; and can always sense nearby water and changing weather.
Lucid Soul
The bearer remains aware while sleeping, controls their own dreams, awakens instantly, and resists sleep magic, nightmares, emotional intrusion, and mental effects hidden below conscious thought.
Body of the Undertow
The bearer's body flows around blows, blades, projectiles, falls, and crushing force, making them extraordinarily difficult to damage physically. Pierced, twisted, or separated flesh draws itself back together like merging water.
Drowned Memory
Water, mirrors, tears, and other reflective surfaces retain impressions the bearer can read. They can reconstruct recent events, follow someone who passed through, locate a lost object connected to the reflection, or recover a memory buried by grief or magic.
Ninth Generation; the Manual insists that it, rather than its first mortal bearer, originated the lineage
The Manual of the Perfect Machine
Making, repair, systems, precision, order, and unintended purpose.
Interlocking brass plates that unfold into pages covered with diagrams. The diagrams include the reader as a labeled component.
It wants something broken repaired and made better than before.
+1 Power to any crafting or technical magic.
Bound djinn
Artifex
A colony of jewel-like beetles that assembles itself into whatever shape is useful: a hand, owl, key, tiny person, or set of drafting tools. Artifex says “we” and views improvisation as a respectable but embarrassing cousin of engineering.
Inherited abilities
Attunement Gifts
System Sight
The bearer perceives how machines, structures, traps, organizations, bodies, rituals, and magical effects function, including their inputs, stresses, hidden components, and likely points of failure.
Perfect Hands
The bearer has flawless coordination and inherited mastery of engineering, crafting, surgery, architecture, lockwork, mathematics, and other exacting technical disciplines.
Integrated Tools
Conjure or dismiss spectral tools, lenses, measuring devices, manipulators, and a compact extradimensional workbench suited to the task at hand.
Machine Communion
Understand and communicate with constructs, mechanisms, vehicles, and enchanted objects through touch, learning their condition, purpose, recent use, and what they require to operate.
Failsafe
The bearer instinctively avoids mechanical accidents and strongly resists paralysis, disassembly, petrification, transformation, hostile telekinesis, and magic that treats a person as an object or component.
Ninth Generation; only eight prior bearers count as true attunements, though hundreds of people have falsely claimed the title
The Masque of a Thousand Selves
Identity, illusion, performance, empathy, reputation, and transformation.
A book of scripts bound in mirrored scales. Every role is written with the reader's name in the cast list.
It wants its bearer to sincerely understand someone they have judged.
+1 Power to any illusion or deception magic.
Bound djinn
Bravo
A long-limbed monkey in a half-mask and an ever-changing wardrobe. Bravo is flamboyant, observant, and incapable of entering a room without making an entrance. Alone, it drops the performance and speaks with unsettling sincerity.
Inherited abilities
Attunement Gifts
Many Faces
Freely alter apparent face, body, voice, scent, clothing, age, ancestry, and other recognizable traits. The bearer can recreate familiar people with exceptional accuracy.
Social Instinct
Perceive the role, mood, status, loyalties, and expectations shaping a social scene, then choose whether to appear credible, harmless, sincere, forgettable, captivating, or menacing.
Perfect Performance
Inherited mastery covers acting, deception, disguise, etiquette, dance, rhetoric, mimicry, handwriting, and learning a practiced routine after seeing it performed.
Unfixed Identity
The bearer resists charm, domination, possession, reputation magic, forced transformation, and attempts to discover or weaponize their true name or identity.
Audience Sense
Know when the bearer is being watched, recognize illusions and performed emotions, identify what an audience expects, and perceive the hidden observer whose reaction matters most.
Ninth Generation; its bearers traditionally added a page only after surviving something that should have defeated them
The Iron Gospel of the Unbroken
Strength, momentum, endurance, protection, courage, and exceeding mortal limits.
Flexible iron pages bound between dented plates. The book is impossibly heavy to everyone except its bearer, and every scar on its cover records an impact that failed to destroy it.
It wants the bearer to engage in interesting combat simply to prove their superiority.
+1 Power to any physical enhancement, force, or protection magic.
Bound djinn
Duchess Knucklebones
A large white goose wearing red dueling boots, a cavalry sash, and six medals it absolutely did not earn. The Duchess challenges furniture to single combat, declares arbitrary contests during tense negotiations, and gives excellent tactical advice disguised as personal insults. It considers a fair fight evidence of poor preparation and will happily sabotage both sides until the conflict becomes “educational.” It loves to honk, steal, and relentlessly heckle.
Inherited abilities
Attunement Gifts
Titan's Physique
The bearer possesses extraordinary strength, speed, jumping ability, carrying capacity, and stamina without becoming clumsy or losing fine control.
The Unbroken
The bearer is exceptionally difficult to injure, exhaust, poison, stun, or knock unconscious and can continue acting through pain and physical trauma that would disable others.
Master of Momentum
The bearer can anchor against unwanted movement, stop or redirect their own momentum instantly, land safely, maintain perfect balance, and distribute force through anything they hold.
Legacy of Battle
The bearer has inherited mastery of weapons, armor, unarmed combat, athletics, battlefield tactics, fortification, intimidation, and recognizing how an opponent prefers to fight.
Guardian's Reflex
The bearer instinctively notices attacks and hazards threatening nearby companions and can interpose, catch, deflect, carry, or pull others clear with seemingly impossible timing.