( Thanks to the ever amazing for the mechanics for this spell) A wizard who is otherwise scared of facing a Bookworm may send a party to retrieve some of these stones, or they may be belched up by the fey themselves, either intentionally as a token of their thanks, or randomly expelled during the use of their Vast knowledge ability and scattered around their lair. Valuable for their beauty alone, these stones are even more of a commodity for wizards, who can grind them down and add them to incense to cast the spell perilous research at no other cost.
This can be useful for a party who’s collected a few too many scrolls and enemy-caster’s spellbooks who don’t have a wizard in the party to absorb this knowledge. Known for their ability to answer any question, the party may seek a Wholly Bookworm out in the feywilds or in a local dungeon, who commands a high price for their bestowal of knowledge.Druids have sometimes been known to use these creatures as living siege engines against arcanists that invade their territory, but such tactics only result in an angered wizard or a massively empowered bookworm who may be even less reasonable in negotiations. A surefire way to banish the Bookworm is to destroy the volume, or to clean and restore it to pristine condition, but the latter option can take weeks or months without access to specialized magics.īane of Mages: Among wizards it is considered very, VERY bad form to summon a Wholly Bookworm to deal with one’s rivals, as the creatures can very rarely be contained by spellcasters and can undo centuries of hardwon research with their gorging. The Smell of putrefying knowledge is enough to draw one or more of these Wholly beasts from Across the planes, who begins rummaging through the region’s bookshops and museums looking for the tome that drew them. Frustratingly enough, Wholly Bookworms have the magical ability to know ANYTHING with alarming accuracy, though doing so unleashes a wretched burp of wildmagic infused gas.Ī Hunger for Knowledge: If it’s one thing that’s sure to draw the manifestation of a Bookworm, it’s an old tome succumbing to rot.
#ENDLESS DUNGEON BOOKWORM CODE#
Birds don’t actually fly, they’re just very good at jumping, candles melt when they are lit because the light draws tiny men who wish to use the wax to build their homes, there is an elaborate legal code which determines which flowers can or cannot be pollinated by bees and violating this code risks exile from the hive. Pretentious Gasbags: Bumbling about like a parody of some doddering scholar, the Bookworm mumbles to itself constantly, stroking its beard and concocting inexplicable theories on the functioning of everyday things. When confronted with the scent of magical writing however, particularly old or powerful ones, these creatures become ravenously hungry, quickly losing all of their scholarly demeanor and becoming engines of arcane destruction, more than willing to carve a warpath between them and their chosen morsel. Smelling of mold and, these creatures are rather docile when left alone, happy to putter about their ruins or feywild lairs scribbling out treatises on their obsessions or answering questions for passers by. Wholly Bookworms seem to be the embodiment of this academic decay, appearing in abandoned libraries and neglected archives much in the same way that other fey protect sacred trees or minister to patches of mushrooms. Scribes and historians fight an endless battle against time, looking to transcribe ancient knowledge before the paper it is written upon is lost to rot and oblivion.
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