To Retrieve the Lost Leaves of Knowledge
Vespera of Tremere was trained by her covenant's librarian, and then took the position herself, and then moved to become a founder of a new covenant focused in gathering of knowledge. As her skill grew, she had more and more spells designed to make her job managing the library and its upkeep better. This spell was a bit of a desperate masterpiece, designed to gather every misplaced or lost book of the library and return them to their proper shelves. Sadly her slightly lacking Terram meant she had to experiment a bit to get everything working correctly.
(Design notes: Using Covenants rules that a library catalog can be used as an arcane connection to the entire library, and the Transforming Mythic Europe ruling of base 4 to transport inanimate object.)
To Retrieve the Lost Leaves of Knowledge (Rego Terram 60)
R: Arcane Connection, D: Momentary, T: Group, Ritual
This spell is the librarian's last resort to fixing organization and loss. Cast while holding the library catalog, it will instantly transport every book in the catalog to its correct place on the shelves. Getting them all to land in correct places requires a stress roll of Intelligence + Finesse against ease factor 6, and getting them to appear in particular placing or orders requires a roll against ease factor 12. The spell can summon roughly a hundred cubic paces of books. Due to her casting sigil, Vespera's version of the spell causes the caster to flush a bright and exited hue.
(Base 4, +4 Arcane Connection, +2 Group, +5 for range, +1 size)
Side Effects table (1d10)
1 Exaggerated Sigil: As the books appear into place, all alongside each other, the caster feels a rush of heat, excitement, embaressment, arousal, and delight. Reportedly, after casting this spell, Vespera looks as red as a beet for a few minutes.
2-3 Minor Flaw: Mental images of every single book, words or illuminations from them, will flash through the caster's mind, requiring a Stamina + Concentration roll against ease factor 9 or the target is unable to act for a round from the information overload.
4-5 Minor Side Effect:
6 Minor Benefit: By default, the spell will organize the books in the order they are recorded in the catalog, with the ease factor of 6.
7 Major Flaw: If any of the books on the catalog have been damaged enough to be considered destroyed, the spell's definition of the group has been ruined and the spell fails. Vespera immediately designed an Intellego spell to check for this eventuality before she ever cast the spell.
8 Major Side Effect: The sudden conjuring of so many items causes a brief flutter and flurry of wind to rush through the library or space of the casting, which will not only kick up dust and dirt and sand from the breeze, but somehow the space always seems even dirtier afterwards, as if the books brought back even more dust and dirt from whence they came.
9 Major Benefit: This spell has been designed for a particular target library, and as volumes of books are added to the registry, they become part of the library itself, as far as this spell is concerned. After a book has been in the library for a year, it is considered part of the original library and receives no warping for being conjured.
10 Fatal Flaw: The books appear in whatever state they were in when the spell was cast. Books laying down appear laying down, books upright appear upright, books left open appear opened. This means when the caster attempts to organize them into place, the will crash and damage each other unless every book has been given more than enough space on the shelves. The Finesse roll to place the books is at a -3 to the