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Spirit Tome  
 

Lore Item Placeable
Slot: PRIMARY SECONDARY
This item is placeable in yards, guild yards, houses and guild halls.
WIS: +6 INT: +6
WT: 0.0 Size: SMALL
Class: CLR DRU SHM NEC WIZ MAG ENC
Race: ALL
Slot 1, Type 7 (General: Group)

Item Type:Misc
Light:Stein of Tears
Stackable:No
Merchant Value:6 pp 5 gp 0 sp 0 cp
Tribute:197
Lucy Entry By:Kerasota
Item Updated By:SwiftyMUSE
Source:Live
IC Last Updated:2022-01-18 21:08:24
Page Updated:Thu Oct 9th, 2008

Expansion: Ruins of Kunark Ruins of Kunark


Average Price: No Data Pricing Data...
Rarity: Common
Level to Attain: 32

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Zone Name
Kaesora
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Uploaded December 23rd, 2019 by iventheassassin
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#REDACTED, Posted: Sep 12 2004 at 4:54 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) your better off doing the Testament of Vanear quest then buying them.Testament has 10+ int and wis.it isnt a hard quest either.
we got lucky
# Jun 24 2002 at 9:45 PM Rating: Decent
i was in a group of 5 holding down the room. this guy spawned 3 times in about 2-3 hours or so. each time the book dropped.
price
# Jun 15 2002 at 11:10 PM Rating: Decent
I bought this for 200pp recently. I think I got such a good price because the seller was too lazy to go back to ec to sell it (from Overthere).
spawn time?
# May 25 2002 at 10:34 PM Rating: Decent
I jsut spent 4 and a half hours in there 1 spawn of spectral librarian he dropped hsis tupid mantle..... how long with chain pulling grp it take these to spawn?
Price?
# Apr 28 2002 at 12:19 PM Rating: Decent
How Much are they on ECI....Just wondering...really want to buy one quick...ill trade my Centi Warhamemr for it! and 200pp
price update
# Feb 20 2002 at 1:55 PM Rating: Decent
The price is very inaccurate on allot of the old items. I think they should reset all of them. I bought one and commenly see these for 600pp no were near the 2000pp they once sold for.

RE: price update
# Mar 09 2002 at 12:01 AM Rating: Decent
did you put your price in the pricing data section? that's the reason why the prices are so out of date, they're going on old sales, if people would put in the new prices, the averages would fall, and a more correct price would be shown :)
I went there last night ...
# Jan 06 2002 at 2:23 PM Rating: Decent
It isn't too hard to take the library. My friend and I got down there pretty easily (Me 44 Monk, friend 49 Druid). Sadly, what ended up happening was there were the skeletal warders who were healing everything and by the time i noticed it there were 2 skeletal warders and a guardian of xalgoz on me, I had no choice but to feign death. I did and then I had to lay there for about an hour and I'm still there right now, not in that spot, after mending to full health I made my way as far as I could to the entrance. My friend had already gotten off then so right now I'm stuck in Kaesora. Hopefully someone will be on, or someone that wouldn't mind going to the library with me again or something who can teleport me out. Well, my advice to you all if you want to take the library is to kill all of the skeletal warders in the area, they will heal anything that you are attacking. They spawn outside of the library on both sides. Ok, I wish the best of luck to you all with the library.

Taibai Swiftwind 44 Monk
Tunk of Qeynos 31 Warrior
Elbong 21 Druid
Achu 19 Magician
#REDACTED, Posted: Nov 04 2001 at 9:08 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Trading a tome of unseen darkness and sarvants cap for this on test server send tell to Psywalker or Baldwalker
A Spirit Tome Story
# Sep 29 2001 at 4:53 AM Rating: Excellent
One day I was enjoying a break from planar travel, basking in the sun and smelling the sweet smells of the woods... and Norrath, once again... and decided I should do something nice for my younger, though misguided brother. I knew he was very fond of reading, and though poor he spent whatever meager coin he could scrap up on reading materials. I rounded a corner and came upon a stream, with the stark realization that I had *no* idea what kinds of things Mycah liked to read, suddenly I heard a traveling merchant shout out that he'd like to sell a tome. A tome! No doubt this was the work of Tunare. I closed my eyes and concentrated on the face of the wolf, feeling nature's energy running throughout my being. When next I ran, the woodland creatures I passed noticed only a blur.

I could smell the salesman. It was the light but musky odor of a sweet cigar. I broke through the brush and found before me a lizard man. Instinctually my hand went to Wurmslayer, then drew back as the lizard smiled and bowed.

"What... manner of tome are you trying to sell... sir?" I asked, amazed I was actually talking to one so usually foreign to this forest.

He struggled to speak common. "Iss the tome of the sspirit.... the sssspirit tome. Come from down among the dead men. I pry it from hand of ssssoft flesh dead. It lit way out from that cursssed place. Verrry ssstrong wordssss... I ssssell to you now for nine hundred and fifty platinum. You give coin to me."

Nine Hundred and Fifty Platinum!! Tunare!!

I had it. I'd saved up a lot from my adventures in the Burning Woods. Wurmslayer was a might sword, but the pieces were not hard to acquire, and I'd become quite adept and finding the pieces for it. As such, I'd amassed a small fortune for myself just recently. While I'd been planning on buying grand weaponry (I had my eye on a dagger that I'd seen literally change a man into a wolf, and I do not lie), this whole transaction felt somehow ... meant, and I knew it could only be the work of Tunare. And I dare not deny her all powerful, all loving will. I looked left, then right. We seemed alone. I smelled the air. Sweet cigars, a rabbit nearby, nothing more.

I reached into my backpack and pulled from it a large satchel. Inside was my accumulated wealth, better protected by me than by any banker. I handed him the platinum in handfulls. He took it gingerly, tongue darting in and out, and from his own bags he pulled a dusty book. It was the color of a crypt wall and its binding was ripped in several places, yet when it was removed from the bag, shadows danced around us as a pale, sickly light emanated from it. I moved to open the book and the lizard's hand darted out and clasped my own. I felt as though I'd been grabbed by the trunk of a tree, his hands were hard and had no warmth.

"The wordsss are not for you."

And with that, he released me, turned away, and walked into the foliage. Almost instantly I could not sense him. He was no longer anywhere nearby. A chill ran down my spine, but a smile broke across my face.

-------------------

Two days later I arrived, weary from travel, at the edge of Nektolos Forest. To continue inside would be unwise, as the guards that roamed the area protected my brother fiercely. Should I happen upon one of these guards, blood bond notwithstanding, the guards would try to take me into custody. I'm a wood elf. Mycah... Mycah on the other hand had very mysterious beginnings. My mother adopted him six years after I was born, and his pale complexion didn't seem quite so out of the ordinary at that time. He was a baby after all, and one prone to sickness at that. However, as he grew older it became evident that Mycah was not like us. His pale skin began turning a dark hue of blue. I remember those dark days of school. Mycah would wear layers of clothing in order to hide his flesh, and apply ointments to make his face appear fair. In time I'm sure it was this insecurity that drove him to become an illusionist. To meet Mycah, one never knows if one is meeting the true physical Mycah. Only I really know what he looks like naturally. But I digress...

Today I found Mycah quite quickly, near the edge of the forest. His odor is unmistakable. It's the smell of coal and something dead. Today Mycah is in the guise of the undead. Very unnerving, but allows him fairly safe passage through these haunted and horrible forests, or so he says. I somewhat suspect he enjoys that form. I somewhat suspect Mycah is losing his mind.

"Hail brother." I say.

A high cackle emits from what once was my brother, now a pile of bones connected loosely by small flaps of bloody flesh and muscle. One eyeball dangles loosely from a hollow socket. With the speed of the trapdoor spider, my Guardian Sword snaps out and clips it away from his face. There's a little blood, but not much. Mycah doesn't flinch. I feel better about things.

"Hail brother." says Mycah, "You are no doubt here to try to pull me out of these dark woods and I'll not have it... for one thing..."

"Nay." I interrupted, "I am here to deliver to you a gift. I thought perhaps it would help you see in there, and give you something to do as well."

With that, I handed him the Spirit Tome.

He grasped it with his fingerbones. He studied the binding, tracing the cracks with a particularly skinny digit. Then he opened the book.

Immediately the skeletal illusion was replaced with Mycah, as I knew him to be. His face was contorted into a pure mixture of absolute understanding and absolute fright. As his eyes swept the pages, he looked the way most three year olds look, wide-eyed and gaping mouth, finally grasping something profound in the mind, yet... not quite equipped to handle the results of that knowledge. Shadows danced around us. The light from nowhere flickered in Mycah's eyes.

His eyes raised and met my own. They tightened into squints and a very dark smile ripped across his face.

"Oh brother...."

he said, and his voice very nearly mesmerized me where I stood. Now it was I who was trembling. Trembling before my own brother.

"You know not what you've done."

And with that a horrible and horrendous laugh thundered through my head. I fell to one knee and began concentrating. I looked for the spirit of the wolf amidst the raging laughter and found it cowering. With all the will I could muster I begged the spirit to take me. And so it did. At once I was transformed and immediately I retreated from this dark place. I ran so fast I believe there may still be a trail there.

I also realized that I had been mistaken. For the deed which I had done could not have been planned by Tunare. And now what I'd leashed upon the world would be my fault. Woe was me.
RE: A Spirit Tome Story
# Oct 15 2004 at 4:03 PM Rating: Decent
Nice touch!

Like the other replies to this post, I enjoyed reading this well written piece. (Outstanding storyline)

You can tell by my rating I don't post much, but this one was definitely worth praise, Kudos!



Edited, Fri Oct 15 17:05:10 2004
RE: A Spirit Tome Story
# Sep 13 2004 at 7:03 AM Rating: Decent
Heh you lost me on "hello".
RE: A Spirit Tome Story
# Jun 09 2003 at 4:33 PM Rating: Decent
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126 posts
Bravo. Tis a pleasure to be taken by surprize.
You have done well.

Thank you for taking the time to treat those of similar interests as yourself.

/bow

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RE: A Spirit Tome Story
# May 03 2002 at 11:33 PM Rating: Excellent
Extremely well written story, tis good to finally see someone who really truely tries to roleplay, and who is very well adept to be able to write about it. Excelent work!! Truely excelent!
RE: A Spirit Tome Story
# Apr 18 2002 at 1:33 AM Rating: Default
...Dass a luvlee tail, dat iz. Mayks meez kry, it duz - did youz kunsider bashin yer brudda an gettin de book bak offa him? ...Duzent seme lyke a gud ideeya ter let 'im kepe it ;)
RE: A Spirit Tome Story
# Feb 26 2002 at 6:00 PM Rating: Decent
Beutifuly written, wonderful story line. Kudos!!!
RE: A Spirit Tome Story
# Jan 24 2002 at 8:28 PM Rating: Decent
I think that was a very interesting story and greatly enjoyed reading it.

Thank-you...sssoft ssskin
RE: A Spirit Tome Story
# Jan 08 2002 at 4:14 AM Rating: Decent
Superb Literary skills. I'm wondering what what may have happened to His dark Brother. I look forward to a follow-up story. :-)
RE: A Spirit Tome Story
# Oct 30 2001 at 5:17 AM Rating: Decent
Rare to find one as skilled with the keys and storytelling, keep up the good work
RE: A Spirit Tome Story
# Oct 23 2001 at 3:12 AM Rating: Decent
*chuckles malevolently* You are indeed a good writer. I read it twice over.. very nice indeed :)

*gives it an Excellent*
Curious
# Jun 30 2001 at 7:26 PM Rating: Decent
I'm a 52 and 40 druid on 2 different servers,.. is it cool enough to do the Spirit Tome thing, or is there danger involved.

I understand the 40 druid would need a group and all,.. but the 52 druid is the one I'm thinking of. Thanks tons guys for your input.

Be Well
Tabidru/Tabix
RE: Curious
# Aug 14 2001 at 4:35 PM Rating: Default
At 52 i would think that this would be a kinda useless item to ya unless your farmin it. It would take you not to long to get testement of vanear about 8 hours max more like 3 or 4 if you know when the last spawn was. If you after a good item for your primary hand then the garou club would be a better choice which is +7 wis and aint to bad for beating on stuff with its proc. My friend did the garou quest and didn't take to long so all in all i would say this book aint worth the time. if your a cleric or druid.
RE: Curious
# Jul 24 2001 at 6:28 PM Rating: Default
How difficult would it be to get to and fight in the library?

The level of the mob is listed as 32?

Is it a higher level version of say Mistmoore or the New Dark Elf Befallen

32 Mage.
RE: Curious
# Sep 14 2001 at 10:24 AM Rating: Decent
The greatest danger in Kaesora is the casting spiders that can see invis, and they are only a pain for a group when they gang up on you. Which by the way, is whenever they can. If you can get in a full group lvls 32-40 though, you would be just fine getting to the library. The mobs are well spread out and although likely to come in pairs, they rarely come in three or more.

As a word of note, keep track of your pet as with any dungeon, going up or down stairs can send a pet around the long way and bring down the castle so to speak.
Pricing
# Jun 19 2001 at 9:38 AM Rating: Decent
I would say the pricing on Morell-Thule for the Spirit tome is dwindling. Someone spent hours trying to sell it yesterday and finally sold it to me for best offer ( 900pp ). I would say if I had the choice at the time, I would only have paid 700pp for it, true enough, 72 mana is NOT worth 2k pp.

Tanyn Darkwood - 50 Druid - Morell-Thule
<The Forgotten>
RE: Pricing
# Jun 23 2001 at 3:44 PM Rating: Decent
It's all about timing. I sold one the other week (for 1k) and i was mobbed by 6 tells in under a minute! If i'd of known that i would have sold it for at least 1.2k or maybe 1.5k. 2000 plat is way too much for it, though. Get on at peak time in EC and you'll have no trouble getting rid of it. Yeh stats aren't too great but they're not bad and a more fashionable alternative to a stein. Wis casters don't have much of a selection to begin with and the stats aren't that shabby for them, as they don't have the option of buying a cheap 10 int stein. So I'd place the price at about....1k-1.5k. Maybe you could get 2k, if you found some one desperate enough. I certainly would never go under 1k, on MT.
Spirit Tome
# May 04 2001 at 5:34 AM Rating: Decent
34 posts
When it is equipped it looks like an open book in your hand. It's a nice idea to use it in the primary slot with Testament of Vanear on secondary. However, I wouldn't pay 2kpp for it, not even close. 6 wisdom is 72 mana when you're level 60, not really worth 2k.
RE: Spirit Tome
# Aug 29 2001 at 3:45 PM Rating: Decent
Ummm actually, when you are under the 200pt "soft cap" for mana-generating traits, a 6 point boost give more like (60/5)*6...360 mana at 60th level.

Thayn
RE: Spirit Tome
# Sep 06 2001 at 3:10 PM Rating: Good
I would check that math again. (60/5)*6 = 72 not 360...
Ahz
# Apr 27 2001 at 8:07 PM Rating: Default
This isn't a common drop from the Librarians. Common drops are come cloak and the Kunzar Mantle. My group just started in Kaesora. We've killed four Librarians and have gotten 1 Tome, 1 Cloak, one monk 2hb, and one Kunzar Mantle.
Look?
# Apr 27 2001 at 12:57 PM Rating: Decent
What does this look like when equipted? I'm thinking it's the open book. Someone let me know plz, Thankz
RE: Look?
# Sep 13 2004 at 7:00 AM Rating: Decent
Aye, open book.
Effect?
# Mar 21 2001 at 4:33 PM Rating: Default
Why does it say Effect but then not have an effect there?
RE: Effect?
# Mar 22 2001 at 1:39 AM Rating: Decent
It acts a light source.
#Anonymous, Posted: Mar 21 2001 at 4:33 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Why does it say it Effect: but then not have an effect there?
2 Librarians, 2 Tomes
# Mar 11 2001 at 12:58 PM Rating: Default
Must be her common
#Anonymous, Posted: Mar 20 2001 at 6:21 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Yeah, it kinda SAYS that it's her common drop!!!!
#Anonymous, Posted: Dec 27 2000 at 4:05 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Need Input
RE: Input
# Feb 03 2001 at 4:11 AM Rating: Decent
what do ye want to know about it? a 56 cleric gave me one today on Ayonae Ro. I am using it on my 28 almost 29 cleric now....and whoopin WIS...total WIS of 126 now...other medeocre items.
#Anonymous, Posted: Jun 16 2001 at 8:26 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) You are near level 30 and have 126 wisdom....... you know, most people can get post-100 wisdom if they allocate points properly at character creation (some can't because of race... that's why you should pick a dorf =). Otherwise, your equipment just really sucks for your level. Either way, something is definately wrong with that kinda wisdom.... and something is even more disturbing about the way you think you are 'whoopin' in the wisdom department.
RE: Input
# Jul 31 2001 at 3:21 PM Rating: Decent
well my Iksar shaman had 115wis to start and like 173wis with decent items...so I would say 126 wisdom is very low..I just got rid of my shaman, I didn't like being kos to everyone =\ I know there are ways around but I just got bored with him.
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