Crafting

Inscription

Inscription is the caster support craft. It makes the parchment every scroll wants, and at the top it makes Inscribed Spellbooks that raise the damage of every offensive spell you cast. A mage who has never touched it is casting at a permanent discount to what they could be.

How you train it Press parchment from boards, then move on to the spellbook recipes.

What you need An active Writer's Quill, and boards from Carpentry.

Pressing boards into parchment

Skill	Board	Becomes
No requirement	Wood Plank	Wood Parchment
65.0	Dullwood Plank	Dullwood Parchment
70.0	Shadowwood Plank	Shadowwood Parchment
75.0	Copperwood Plank	Copperwood Parchment
80.0	Bronzewood Plank	Bronzewood Parchment
85.0	Goldwood Plank	Goldwood Parchment
90.0	Agawood Plank	Agawood Parchment
95.0	Veriwood Plank	Veriwood Parchment
99.0	Valiwood Plank	Valiwood Parchment

Inscribed spellbooks

Each tier raises the damage of every offensive spell you cast while it is equipped.

Skill	Spellbook	Parchment	Spell damage
No requirement	Iron Inscribed Spellbook	10 Wood Parchment	+10%
65.0	Dull Copper Inscribed Spellbook	10 Dullwood Parchment	+20%
70.0	Shadow Iron Inscribed Spellbook	10 Shadowwood Parchment	+30%
75.0	Copper Inscribed Spellbook	10 Copperwood Parchment	+40%
80.0	Bronze Inscribed Spellbook	10 Bronzewood Parchment	+50%
85.0	Golden Inscribed Spellbook	10 Goldwood Parchment	+60%
90.0	Agapite Inscribed Spellbook	10 Agawood Parchment	+70%
95.0	Verite Inscribed Spellbook	10 Veriwood Parchment	+80%
99.0	Valorite Inscribed Spellbook	10 Valiwood Parchment	+90%

Runes and the books that hold them

A Recall Rune is bought from any Mage Shop, not scribed — what a scribe makes is the scroll that teaches the spell, and the books that file the runes away. Every cost below is base-tier Wood Parchment; the tier ladder does not apply here, the volume is the point.

Skill	Item	Cost	What it does
45.0	Scroll of Recall	10 Wood Parchment + 1× Black Pearl, 1× Blood Moss, 1× Mandrake Root	Read into a spellbook to learn Recall, or bind into a Runetome as one charge. The only spell scroll that cannot be ground back into dust.
50.0	Runebook	250 Wood Parchment + 100 Arcane Dust	Holds 10 runes, each with its own Recall button.
100.0	Runetome	1,000 Wood Parchment + 500 Arcane Dust	Holds 30 runes and banks up to 50 Recall charges. A charge travels without spending reagents.

🪨

Recalling from a page is still casting the spell: it wants the mana, the reagents, 30 Magery and a spellbook that knows Recall. The book only saves you hunting through your pack for the right stone. Spend a Runetome charge instead and the reagents are waived — everything else is still owed.

🔖

A book must be ON you to travel from it. One in your bank still opens and can be tidied, but its Recall buttons go quiet — the same rule your reagents have always followed. A Bless Deed from the Virtue Shop will keep a book, and every rune inside it, through death.

Tomes

Grandmaster work: 95 Inscription, and the same base-tier Wood Parchment by the thousand. Each one swallows a whole category of clutter that would otherwise eat your pack and your bank. A Tome can be locked down in your house, unlike a rune book — there is nothing to cast off it, so nothing is lost by putting it on the floor.

Skill	Tome	Cost	What it files away
95.0	Map Tome	1,000 Wood Parchment2 Pristine Leather	6 kinds
95.0	Skill Scroll Tome	1,000 Wood Parchment2 Pristine Leather	39 kinds
95.0	Dye Tub Tome	1,000 Wood Parchment2 Pristine Leather	72 kinds, each shown in its own colour

⚠️

A Tome binding can fail, and it takes the pages with it. Raw skill alone will not move it: the odds sit at 40% anywhere from the 95 gate up to 100 — so the average Tome costs closer to 2,500 Wood Parchment than the 1,000 on the label. Gear is the only answer: the roll reads EFFECTIVE Inscription, and at 120 it reaches 80%. Bind with your best quill and band on.

The Rite Binder

The one thing a scribe makes that has nothing to do with casting. Cryptic Texts turn up on the dead in the dungeons, and a binder presses seven of one kind into a volume that can be read. Base-tier Wood Parchment again — the volume is the point, not the tier.

Skill	Item	Cost	What it does
60.0	Rite Binder	100 Wood Parchment1 Crafting Lace	Binds 7 Cryptic Texts of one kind into a volume you can read. Pressing the texts never fails, and it spends the press along with the pages.

⚠️

Making the press is the part that can fail, and it is the expensive part. At exactly 60 Inscription it is a coin flip — half the time the lace parts and takes the 100 pages with it. Since a boss only answers a summons once a week per character, that is a week gone. Reaching 100 takes it to 95%; the roll reads EFFECTIVE Inscription, so a good quill and a band count toward it. Press your luck at 60 only if you can spare the lace.

🧵

Crafting Lace is the half you cannot scribe: it comes off the bosses at 10% a kill, and any boss will do — the cheapest one you can field pays the same lace as the deepest. Since a boss can only be summoned once a week per character, the lace, not the parchment, is what decides how many binders you ever make.

📖

At 100 Inscription every offensive spell you cast lands 10% harder, permanently. A mage who skipped this is casting at a discount.

⚗️

That same milestone grinds every spell scroll in your pack to dust automatically. Scrolls of Recall are the one exception — they are exempt, so a stack you scribed to charge a Runetome survives.

📈

Everything on this page trains Inscription, and it trains in proportion to the parchment it spends — a 250-sheet Runebook teaches 250 times what a single sheet does. So there is no "training recipe" to grind and no penalty for making the thing you actually wanted; whatever you scribe, reaching Grandmaster costs the same parchment in the end. Binding by hand out of your pack and binding at a Crafting Bench train identically. A failed binding still teaches you — the pages were spent either way.

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