The Silent Axiom
An exacting wizard's treasured codex traces the grammar of reality toward a legendary word of death, though its unfinished final page remains beyond the reach of a seventh-level mage.
Spellbook · Wizard, School of Abjuration · Level 7
The Silent Axiom
An exacting wizard's treasured codex traces the grammar of reality toward a legendary word of death, though its unfinished final page remains beyond the reach of a seventh-level mage.
Ex librisMira VennWizard, School of Abjuration
At a glance
Level
7
Wizard, School of Abjuration
Spells
8
2 signature
Spell slots
1st level
2nd level
3rd level
4th level
At the table
A margin note
Plot hook
Spells
8 spells1st level
2- For the duration, you sense magic within 30 feet. You can use an action to see a faint aura around a visible magical creature or object and learn its school, if any.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- Self
- Components
- V, S
- Higher levels
- Can be cast as a ritual; no slot required when cast as a ritual.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- An invisible barrier grants +5 AC, including against the triggering attack, until the start of your next turn. You take no damage from magic missile.
- Duration
- 1 round
- Target
- Self
- Components
- V, S
- Higher levels
- The AC bonus increases by 1 for each slot level above 1st.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
3rd level
3- You attempt to interrupt a creature casting a spell. On success, the spell fails and has no effect.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- One creature casting a spell within range
- Components
- S
- Save or attack
- None for a spell of 3rd level or lower; for a higher-level spell, make an ability check using your spellcasting ability, + the spell's level.
- Higher levels
- The interrupted spell automatically fails if its level is no greater than the slot used; otherwise make the spellcasting ability check.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- A bright streak detonates at a point you choose, dealing fire damage to creatures in the sphere.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- Creatures in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point within range
- Components
- V, S, M (a tiny ball of bat guano and sulfur)
- Save or attack
- Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere makes a Dexterity saving throw.
- Damage
- fire; half damage on a successful Dexterity save
- Higher levels
- Damage increases by for each slot level above 3rd.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- You inscribe a hidden glyph that triggers under conditions you specify, either exploding with stored energy or storing a prepared spell of 3rd level or lower.
- Duration
- Until dispelled
- Target
- A surface or object that can be closed or concealed
- Components
- V, S, M (a tiny piece of matter of the same type as the item)
- Save or attack
- A creature that triggers an explosive-rune glyph makes a Dexterity saving throw.
- Higher levels
- Explosive-rune damage increases by for each slot level above 3rd; a stored spell must be of a level no higher than the slot used to cast the glyph.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
4th level
3- Teleport yourself from your current location to any other spot within range. You may bring one willing creature of your size or smaller, carrying gear up to its carrying capacity.
- Duration
- Instantaneous
- Target
- Self, and optionally one willing creature within 5 feet
- Components
- V, S, M (a forked metal rod attuned to the plane of existence)
- Higher levels
- You can bring one willing creature within 5 feet; it arrives within 5 feet of your destination.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- You or a creature you touch becomes invisible until the spell ends.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- One creature you touch
- Components
- V, S, M (a small square of silk)
- Higher levels
- No additional effect when cast using a higher-level spell slot.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
- The target's flesh becomes hard as stone, granting resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.
- Duration
- Concentration, up to 1 minute
- Target
- One willing creature you touch
- Components
- V, S, M (a miniature cloak)
- Higher levels
- No additional effect when cast using a higher-level spell slot.
- Source
- Player's Handbook
In the margins
4 notes
DiaryA word is not power merely because it is spoken. First learn what the world already believes.
WarningThe final phrase is theory, not a prepared spell. Ninth-circle magic is beyond my present reach.
FormulaProtection is an equation with a living subject: ward, measure, renew.
DiagramDiagram: a silver circle around the caster, broken only at the point of chosen passage.
The book itself
The book's silver ink glimmers when a spell is prepared.
Its final pages study the theory of a lethal word of power, but the working is incomplete and far beyond its owner's present skill.
A small brass index tab marks each spell by school and level.
The caster
Wizard, School of AbjurationMira Venn
Studies: Abjuration, with a scholarly fascination for the theory of power wordsManner: Courteous, observant, and unhurried, even when danger makes everyone else speak too quickly.Focus: A narrow brass wand with a silver thread wound around its grip; she also traces spell diagrams in the air with a gloved finger.Quirk: She silently counts the syllables in other people's names, then writes down any unusual sound.Wants: To locate the vanished wizard's observatory and determine whether the lethal word recorded in its margins can be resisted or safely studied.Mira Venn apprenticed as a cataloguer in a royal archive, where she learned to regard every spell as a precise argument with reality. She built this codex from the notes of a vanished court wizard.
The book
A midnight-blue codex bound in blackened brass, its pages ruled with fine silver lines like a star chart. Near the back, a page of immense, unfinished lettering is sealed beneath a translucent sheet of glass.
Its wards · GM only
About the book
FormatBrass-clasped arcane codex
ThemeArcane
Written by aWizard, School of Abjuration
Caster level7
SystemDungeons & Dragons 5th Edition
Plot hooks
1A rival scholar steals the glass-sealed page, believing it contains a usable ninth-level spell. The page is only theory, but the rival's experiments are causing people to lose their voices.
2The codex's brass clasp bears the crest of an abandoned observatory, where its original owner hid research into a death-word and a countermeasure against it.
3One silver annotation has begun rewriting itself in a hand that matches no known scholar's. It names a location and a date that have not yet come to pass.
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