Latimer's Grimoire of Adjustment
Penned within thirty years of the final throes of the Shattering, the Grimoire of Adjustment is purported to contain rituals, incantations, and reagents to assist surviving casters in attempting to use magic in the manner that they were accustomed to.
Attributed to Poliran caster Kapral Latimer, the book has come to represent the excesses and craving for power of pre-Shattering casters. It has been banned or censored in most civilized nations, primarily because it contains the only surviving copy of the rituals and sigils for creating a Gozis Phylactery.
While the bulk of the text is full of ineffectual incantations, several of the spells contained within do work. The danger of the book is that no record exists of which rites are spurious and which contain actual power. It is the enticement of obtaining powerful magical knowledge from those few spells that keeps the Grimoire a high-demand black market item.
Popular rumor holds that the original first edition of the Grimoire is held within the Royal Vaults of Polira, and that it has been used by the casters of the Sanguine Tower to stockpile a hoard of Phylacteries.
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