Book Memory

Step

 * Rank + WIL

Action

 * Standard

Strain

 * 0

Skill Use

 * No

Description

 * The adept commits the content of a book or other written text to memory for use at a later time. He need not know the language that the text is written in. The adept makes a Book Memory test against the book’s Mystic Defense—typically 5 for ordinary books, but higher for magical texts. The Mystic Defense of a grimoire is equal to the Dispel Difficulty of the highest-Circle spell it contains (see Grimoires, p. 252, and Dispelling Magic, p. 265). If successful, the adept memorizes a number of pages per minute equal to his Book Memory rank. While the book remains memorized the content is readily accessible—the adept can read, transcribe, or look up information as though he had an actual copy of the book in front of him. An adept can have memorized a maximum number of texts at one time equal to his Book Memory rank. He may voluntarily discard currently memorized texts in order to memorize new ones.