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Bound between thin plates of orichalcum on a hinged spine, this book contains Wyr'palja's notes on artifact design, manse construction and similar projects. Carved into the cover, a complex arrangement of a multitude of small gears appear to move as one looks at them. The book is about eight inches tall and twice as wide. The book is organized into loose chapters, mostly written by hand in Old Realm, along with many diagrams. It is unclear from the notes if the items in this book were invented by Wyr'palja, or merely constructed by her.

Trifles

Designs for the following Rating 1 artifacts:

Aegis-Inset Amulets (wola.71) - A set of surgically implanted amulets that allow mortals to wear magical armor, in exchange for accelerated aging.
Jade Salary - A jade jar that produces salt each day.
Liquid Blade - A sword hilt that any can use which collects water into a blade. Skilled users can control the solidity of the blade to subtract 2 successes from attempts to block it.
Bracers of the Shapeless Wardrobe - Bracers allowing the storage and instant exchange of various sets of clothing to and from Elsewhere.

Trinkets

Designs for the following Rating 2 artifacts:

Discreet Essence Amor (wola.80) - A set of wrist and ankle guards that generate a glowing force field.
Portable Geomantic Recharging Module (wola.61) - A device that allows artifacts to be recharged from a hearthstone.
Prayer Transceiver Module (wola.61) - A small disk that allows messages to be left and played back for people with the same type of artifact.
Wall Eater (wola.130) - A skull-sized beetle like seige device that can eat through walls or ship hulls.

Practicals

Designs for the following Rating 3 artifacts:

Blood Seed (bo3c.94) - Plant this metal seed to grow five armored troops for a scene.
Dauntless Bracers - An advanced set of hearthstone bracers that add the rating of the hearthstone used to soak and subtract the hearthstone rating in dice from attacks against you.
Essence Twister (wola.132) - An area-effect riot control weapon that causes nausea in targets, though less effective against non-mortals.
Fire Lance (wola.77) - A spear that can shoot fire.
Golden Bird of Sunlight (cult.69) - A bird that can carry messages at 100 miles per hour.
Hyperion Sphere - A crystal ball used as a throwing weapon that returns to the attackers hands after each toss. Each time the ball hits, it's damage bonus increases by +1L, to a max of +12L. The bonus resets on a miss. The magical material used in construction also provides a bonus, depending on material.
Omniscient Literary Advisor (wola.64) - A sheet of blue jade that can memorize and summarize books.
Quagmire Perimeter Mine (wola.91) - A device that can be buried and will turn the ground to quicksand under the feet of targets with specific characteristics.
Sentinel Defense Force Armor (wola.81) - Armor intended to enhance local security forces.
Sky Mantis Tower (wola.65) - A large weather control machine.
Silken Armor (cb_e.80) - Silk enchanted to provide soak, without interfering with Martial Arts.
Sunshine Walking Anklets - Brightly glowing anklets that allow the user to walk on air and increase their movement rate.
Whale-Belly Carp-class water transport - A foot long metal fish containing a pocket of Elsewhere, allowing it to carry 1000 pounds of people and luggage on an underwater voyage to a specified location, traveling 300 miles per hour.

Keepsakes

Designs for the following Rating 4 artifacts:

Armor of Elemental Inurement (wola.83) - Five different types of armor, each built to withstand one of the five elements.
Eternally Sepulchered Warden - A collection of chain and blades into which a demon can be bound.
Iron Horse (cb_e.81) - A tireless, extremely sturdy, mount automaton.
Spirit-Focusing Regalia - For purposes of charm and spell effects, your Essence rating is considered to be 6.
Stepping Stones - When a stone is stepped on, the user will be teleported to the next nearest stepping stone.
Warbird (ruin.88) - A bird-shaped flying mount automaton.
Warstrider Firelance (wola.159) - Large, vehcile or warstrider mounted weapons that spew fire. Two different designs are shown. One uses a built-in essence battery and is meant for use in warstriders. The other uses tanks of alchemical fuel called vim vitae, intended for mounting on warbirds.
Wings of the Raptor (wola.54) - Cloaks that can sprout wings.

Triumphs

Designs for the following Rating 5 artifacts:

Crucible of Tarim (bo3c) - A pot into which spells can be distilled into liquid.
Mother's Call - A collection of 101 jade rods that accelerates the healing of shadowlands.
Storm Hammer (wola.135) - A hearthstone-powered weapon allowing the controller to call down lightning on any within two miles.

Manse Design

Contains a numerous notes on geomantic magic and manse design.

Projects

Full plans to Luminous Talon Rain and Molt-Defying Plumage, two flying royal warstriders.

Diagram of the Three Gated Cage

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-The spell book of the solar [[Wyr'palja]] (or, at least, one of them) is a thick tome of perfectly square pages, roughly fifteen inches on a side. The front and back covers are made from flawless white marble, of the same variety used to construct manses. In minute relief, the front cover features various bird imagery intertwined with three interlocking circles. The back features the same circles, with representations of the five elements. The book contains hundreds of pages, but they are so thin that they stack to be only a half-inch thick. The spine is made of some kind of transparent, rubbery substance that holds the pages and covers in place. The book is organized into loose chapters, mostly written by hand in Old Realm.
+Bound between thin plates of orichalcum on a hinged spine, this book contains [[Wyr'palja]]'s notes on artifact design, manse construction and similar projects. Carved into the cover, a complex arrangement of a multitude of small gears appear to move as one looks at them. The book is about eight inches tall and twice as wide. The book is organized into loose chapters, mostly written by hand in Old Realm, along with many diagrams. It is unclear from the notes if the items in this book were invented by Wyr'palja, or merely constructed by her.
-== Thoughts on Devon and Salina ==
+== Trifles ==
-This chapter contains largely unorganized ramblings and observations comparing the analytical approach to sorcery favored by Devon with the emulation of natural connections favored by Salina. From the text, it is clear that Wyr'palja taught herself sorcery initially, using something close to the Salinan method, and much of what follows is an attempt to reconcile this with the Devonian teachings of her mentor [[Tarim]] and, later, her early scientific approach to alchemy. Eventually, she realized her alchemical studies, in spite of being very methodical, really were investigating the connections of nature, and this led her to understand celestial sorcery much better. And this, in turn, made her a better alchemist.
+Designs for the following Rating 1 artifacts:
-Disjointed as it is, this chapter can be of use to those attempting to learn celestial sorcery. It also contains the secrets of Salinan Absorbtion, a permanent Occult charm that refines the practice of sorcery by those following the Salinan school.
+*Aegis-Inset Amulets (wola.71) - A set of surgically implanted amulets that allow mortals to wear magical armor, in exchange for accelerated aging.
+*[http://patternspider.net/lore5/show.php?class=Artifact&id=2 Jade Salary] - A jade jar that produces salt each day.
+*[[exalted:Artifacts/DarlothLiquidBlade|Liquid Blade]] - A sword hilt that any can use which collects water into a blade. Skilled users can control the solidity of the blade to subtract 2 successes from attempts to block it.
+*[[exalted:Artifacts/HarenArtifactOne|Bracers of the Shapeless Wardrobe]] - Bracers allowing the storage and instant exchange of various sets of clothing to and from Elsewhere.
-== Invitation to the Calibration Feast ==
+== Trinkets ==
-Though this section starts as a rambling diatribe against her mentor Tarim and a number of other solar sorcerers, it eventually becomes a lucid description of how Wyr'palja learned solar circle sorcery, in spite of interference from other solars. This culminates in the invention of the spell that created [[Q'in Sanizaj]] and the resulting invitation to the Calibration Feast for solar sorcerers (essentially enacted to prevent solars from summoning third circle demons.)
+Designs for the following Rating 2 artifacts:
-Sorcerers of the Salinan school can use this text to guide them in learning solar circle sorcery.
+*Discreet Essence Amor (wola.80) - A set of wrist and ankle guards that generate a glowing force field.
+*Portable Geomantic Recharging Module (wola.61) - A device that allows artifacts to be recharged from a hearthstone.
+*Prayer Transceiver Module (wola.61) - A small disk that allows messages to be left and played back for people with the same type of artifact.
+*Wall Eater (wola.130) - A skull-sized beetle like seige device that can eat through walls or ship hulls.
-== Emeralds ==
+== Practicals ==
-This chapter contains formulae for the following terrestrial spells:
+Designs for the following Rating 3 artifacts:
-*Death of Obsidian Butterflies - Fill an area with slicing glass butterflies.
+*Blood Seed (bo3c.94) - Plant this metal seed to grow five armored troops for a scene.
-*Demon of the First Circle - Summon a minor demon
+*[[exalted:FrivYeti/DauntlessBracers|Dauntless Bracers]] - An advanced set of hearthstone bracers that add the rating of the hearthstone used to soak and subtract the hearthstone rating in dice from attacks against you.
-*Flight of Separation - Separate into a flock of birds and reassemble miles away
+*Essence Twister (wola.132) - An area-effect riot control weapon that causes nausea in targets, though less effective against non-mortals.
-*Flight of the Brilliant Raptor - Throw a large bird of fire at a target
+*Fire Lance (wola.77) - A spear that can shoot fire.
-*[[exalted:SpellRelay/Birds|Friend of the Feathered Host]] - Summon and control birds
+*Golden Bird of Sunlight (cult.69) - A bird that can carry messages at 100 miles per hour.
-*Infallible Messenger - Send a long message to anyone, nearly instantly.
+*[[exalted:Artifacts/HyperionSphere|Hyperion Sphere]] - A crystal ball used as a throwing weapon that returns to the attackers hands after each toss. Each time the ball hits, it's damage bonus increases by +1L, to a max of +12L. The bonus resets on a miss. The magical material used in construction also provides a bonus, depending on material.
-*The Ravenous Fire - Set nearly anything on fire, even things that don't normally burn.
+*Omniscient Literary Advisor (wola.64) - A sheet of blue jade that can memorize and summarize books.
-*Ritual of Elemental Empowerment - Invest and objects with one of the five elements.
+*Quagmire Perimeter Mine (wola.91) - A device that can be buried and will turn the ground to quicksand under the feet of targets with specific characteristics.
-*Summon Elemental - Summon a minor elemental
+*Sentinel Defense Force Armor (wola.81) - Armor intended to enhance local security forces.
+*Sky Mantis Tower (wola.65) - A large weather control machine.
+*Silken Armor (cb_e.80) - Silk enchanted to provide soak, without interfering with Martial Arts.
+*[[exalted:ArtifactRelay/Circles|Sunshine Walking Anklets]] - Brightly glowing anklets that allow the user to walk on air and increase their movement rate.
+*[[exalted:Artifact/TelgarTravelFish|''Whale-Belly Carp''-class water transport]] - A foot long metal fish containing a pocket of Elsewhere, allowing it to carry 1000 pounds of people and luggage on an underwater voyage to a specified location, traveling 300 miles per hour.
-It also contains notes on summoning elementals and demons, details of the limit profiles in ''Savant & Sorcerer'' (pp 87-99) as well as that of the [[exalted:SycophantAbyssicGuideCard|sycophant]]. It also gives true names for a wide variety of demons and several elementals.
+== Keepsakes ==
-== Sapphires ==
+Designs for the following Rating 4 artifacts:
-This chapter contains formulae for the following terrestrial spells:
+*Armor of Elemental Inurement (wola.83) - Five different types of armor, each built to withstand one of the five elements.
+*[http://patternspider.net/lore5/show.php?class=Artifact&id=125 Eternally Sepulchered Warden] - A collection of chain and blades into which a demon can be bound.
+*Iron Horse (cb_e.81) - A tireless, extremely sturdy, mount automaton.
+*[[exalted:Artifacts/TheMyriadOfShades|Spirit-Focusing Regalia]] - For purposes of charm and spell effects, your Essence rating is considered to be 6.
+*[[exalted:Artifacts/IkselamFourDot|Stepping Stones]] - When a stone is stepped on, the user will be teleported to the next nearest stepping stone.
+*Warbird (ruin.88) - A bird-shaped flying mount automaton.
+*Warstrider Firelance (wola.159) - Large, vehcile or warstrider mounted weapons that spew fire. Two different designs are shown. One uses a built-in essence battery and is meant for use in warstriders. The other uses tanks of alchemical fuel called ''vim vitae'', intended for mounting on warbirds.
+*Wings of the Raptor (wola.54) - Cloaks that can sprout wings.
-*Cantana of Empty Voices - A sonic attack on an extremely large area.
+== Triumphs ==
-*Demon of the Second Circle - Summon a strong demon.
-*Dolorous Reflection - Hurl ranged attacks back at the attacker.
-*Eternal Crystalline Encasement - Preserve objects perfectly within crystal.
-*Force of Life's Summer - Force a non-sentient organism to grow to maturity in moments.
-*Incomparable Body Arsenal - Transform into a body of iron, bristling with weapons
-*Mercury's Deliverance - Create a barrier that prevents emerald or sapphire magic from affecting what lies within.
-*[[exalted:SpellRelay/Birds|Piecemeal Winged Migration]] - Summon a flock of birds that dissemble a structure, carry the pieces for miles, and reassemble them.
-*Princes of the Fallen Tower - Summon a host of creatures that can dissolve inanimate objects.
-*Raise the Puissant Sanctim (svnt.57) - Fashion a manse on a demesne based on a set of detailed plans.
-*[http://patternspider.net/lore5/show.php?class=Spell&id=8 Spell Matrix] - Build a pattern of essence through which a spell may be more quickly cast.
-*Swift Spirit of Winged Transportation - Summon a huge bird to transport a vessel through the air.
-*Travel Without Distance - Teleport to a place you have seen that is within 10 miles.
-This chapter also contains notes on summoning second circle demons in general and specific summoning names and notes for the demons more commonly known as:
+Designs for the following Rating 5 artifacts:
-*Alveua, Keeper of the Forge of Night, expressive soul of That Which Calls to Shadows
+* Crucible of Tarim (bo3c) - A pot into which spells can be distilled into liquid.
-*Berengiere, the Weaver of Voices, indulgent soul of the Green Metal Sun
+* [[exalted:ArtifactRelay/Medicine|Mother's Call]] - A collection of 101 jade rods that accelerates the healing of shadowlands.
-*Gervesin, the Grieving Lord, messenger soul of the Green Metal Sun
+* Storm Hammer (wola.135) - A hearthstone-powered weapon allowing the controller to call down lightning on any within two miles.
-*Gumela, the Jeweled Auditor, wisdom soul of the Prince Upon the Tower
-*Lucien, the Guardian of Sleep, expressing soul of the End of All Wisdom
-*Makarios, the Sigil's Dreamer, earden soul of That Which Calls to Shadows
-*Octavian, the Living Tower, defining soul of the Ravine of Whispers
-*Ronwe, The Unlit Pedagogue, messenger soul of That Which Calls to Shadows
-== Adamant ==
+== Manse Design ==
-This chapter contains formulae for the following solar spells:
+Contains a numerous notes on geomantic magic and manse design.
-*Abjuration of the Maidens - Create an area in which spells and charms do not work.
+== Projects ==
-*Adamant Countermagic - Dispel solar circle magic.
-*Benediction of Archgenesis - Make a large area fertile for hundreds of years.
-*[http://patternspider.net/lore5/show.php?class=Spell&id=9 City Seed] - Grow an empty city from the surrounding countryside.
-*[[Community Glazing Hex]] - Turn a neighborhood and its mortal inhabitants into glass.
-*Craft the Puissant Sanctim (svnt.57) - Fashion a manse on a demesne, letting the spell design the manse.
-*Demon of the Third Circle - Summon a powerful demon.
-*[[exalted:SpellRelay/Birds|Flock of Hungry Raitons]] - Summon a huge flock to attack a large area.
-*[[Rising Sun Investment]] - Return a pure solar shard into a body that once contained it.
-*Total Annihilation - Create a column 50 yards wide and five miles high that deals 50L to anyone inside, then starts expanding for several turns.
-*Wrath of the Five Elements - Call down a series of elemental attacks to devastate a single opponent.
-It also contains sparse notes on summoning third circle demons, with summoning names and particular notes on the demons commonly known as:
+Full plans to ''[[Luminous Talon Rain]]'' and ''[[Molt-Defying Plumage]]'', two flying royal warstriders.
-*Erembour, That Which Calls to the Shadows
+Diagram of the [[Three Gated Cage]]
-*Ligier, the Green Metal Sun