John Biles Grimoire

Spell Name	Requires	Components	Complexity	Casting Time	Description
Detect Lie	Basic Sorcery	Mind Touch	Difficult	90 minutes [15 sec]	This spell lets you tell if people are lying to you. It lasts for about an hour, depending on your psyche. You need a psyche advantage over the target or they can lie freely.
Detect Magic	Basic Sorcery	Measure Substance	Minor Average	30 seconds [6 sec] ////// 5 minutes [9 sec]	The more complex the spell, the larger the area of effect. The minor version affects a fifteen foot radius, while the Average version is a hundred foot radius.
Detect Minds	Basic Sorcery	Measure Substance Mind Touch	minor	30 seconds [6 sec]	This simple spell can be used to detect all sentiences within a few dozen feet of the caster, depending on caster Psyche. Especially useful for sensing invisible people, people disguised as inanimate objects, sentient items, and the like.
Gauge Strength	Basic Sorcery	Measure Substance Mind Touch	Average	5 minues [9 sec]	This spell lets you gauge the psychic strength and sorcerous skills of the target, who must be within 150 feet. If you have a psyche advantage, the information is very accurate; if you do not, the information will be fuzzy at best.
Heighten Sense	Basic Sorcery	Measure Substance	Minor Average	30 seconds [6 sec] ////// 5 minutes [9 sec]	This augments one of your senses to a superhuman level--seeing as far and keenly as an eagle, tracking like a dog, reading newspapers with your fingertips, and so on. The minor version lasts a few minutes, the average version lasts minutes to hours depending on Psyche.
Keiko's Lens of Detection	Basic Sorcery	Measure Substance Magical Energy	Average	5 minutes [9 sec]	This spell creates a nearly-transparent green "visor" in front of the caster's eyes, which maintains itself for about an hour on a pool of magical energy. Looking through it, the caster can detect various hidden things. The lynchpins for the specific thing to be detected are generally left out. Common settings include: General Scan: this will pick out Powers, identify Real things from Shadow things, and generally see things that are out of the ordinary without specifically identifying what's out of the ordinary about them. Power Scan: specified to read for Pattern, Logrus, Trump or Magic, the lens will pick out and allow analysis of that specific power. Criminology Scan: finds fingerprints, reveals if locks have been recently picked, makes it easier to find hidden clues, and generally aids in casing a crime scene. Past Scan: identifies and generally detects the nature of strong psychic impressions around objects, or recent strongly emotional events (violent combat, passionate lovemaking, a heated argument) in the location surveyed. Often used in combination with Keiko's Mirror of Temporal Scrying.
Keiko's Mirror of Temporal Scrying	Basic Sorcery	Shadow Maniulation Shadow Opening	Variable	Variable	Temporarily enchants any object with at least some reflecive capacity as a device that can be used to look into the past events of an area. The reflector is positioned so that the area to be scryed is reflected in it, and the spell is then cast. For an hour after that, the reflector can be used to rewind and observe through time in the area reflected, revealing past events. It currently lacks the ability to pick up sound and is purely a visual device, but Keiko's been working on that (and she can read lips anyway). The complexity varies depending on just how far back in time you want to be able to look. Petty:3 seconds: observe past events up to five minutes ago. Minor:1 minute [6 sec]: observe past events up to an hour ago. Average:15 minutes [9 sec]: observe past events up to a day ago. Difficult: 1 hour [12 sec]: observe past events up to a month ago. Challenging: 3 hours [15 sec]: observe past events up to a year ago. Hard:1 day [18 sec]: observe past events up to a decade ago. Incredibly Hard:3 weeks [30 sec]: bserve past events up to a century ago. Searching for a desired event is something of a hit-and-miss process, rather like looking through a very long videotape for the one episode of a show you want to watch.
Keiko's Improved Mirror of Temporal Scrying	Advanced Sorcery	Measure Substance Magical Energy Intelligent Spells	Variable	Variable	Having experienced the wonders of the DVD player since getting married to Ramon, Keiko has worked on improving her Temporal Scrying spell to make it work along similar lines. The added self-direction allows the spell to skip back and forth through time instantly as commanded, search for specific events and display them with far more speed than a human observer "rewinding" could, etc... basically, it makes investigations using the spell quicker and easier. Petty:3 seconds: observe past events up to five minutes ago. Minor:1 minute [6 sec]: observe past events up to an hour ago. Average:15 minutes [9 sec]: observe past events up to a day ago. Difficult: 1 hour [12 sec]: observe past events up to a month ago. Challenging: 3 hours [15 sec]: observe past events up to a year ago. Hard:1 day [18 sec]: observe past events up to a decade ago. Incredibly Hard:3 weeks [30 sec]: bserve past events up to a century ago.
Lily's Magically Assisted Research	Advanced Sorcery	Intelligent Spells Measure Substance Magical Energy Shadow Manipulation Shadow Opening	Variable	Variable	This spell will magically search through a library or archive for all appearances of a set of words listed by the caster at the time of the actual release of the spell. The spell can then be configured to take any or all of several options with regard to the results of its search: Produce a book which lists all the books in the library which contain said keywords with a list of the frequency of appearance of said words Yank all books containing the keywords and stack them neatly at a designated location within the library Produce copies of all such texts (This option requires the use of conjuration in conjunction with the spell if you want said books to be reasonably permanent) This spell can be cast multiple times, using the results of a previous search as the initial starting conditions if so desired. Depending on the size of the library and the frequency of the keywords, this search may take hours to days to weeks; it is only as fast as the person who casts the spell; its main benefit is that the caster can work on other things while the spell does the most tedious searching for him. Minor:1 minute [6 sec]: A single shelf worth of books, the papers on someone's desk Average:15 minutes [9 sec]: A few bookcases worth, a few filing cabinets Difficult: 1 hour [12 sec]: A small library, such as an average noble's collection; the records of a noble house Challenging: 3 hours [15 sec]: A medium-sized library, such as that of a fair-sized town on Shadow Earth; the records of such a town Hard:1 day [18 sec]: A very large library, such as that of Amber or the Library of Congress; the records of the Amber government
Locate Object	Basic Sorcery	Measure Substance	Average or Difficult	10 minutes [9 sec] ////// 1 hour [12 sec]	This simple spell will guide you to any lost object within its range in the same shadow. It provides a directional sense which leads you in the right direction to find it. The average version is good enough for most buildings; the difficult version will lead you to if it's within about ten miles.
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall	Advanced Sorcery	Intelligent Spells Magical Energy Measure Substance	Challenging or Higher	2 Hours 15 sec]	Mirror, Mirror on the Wall enchantes a mirror to become intelligent and conduct scrying searches for you. It will search for things you designate within the same shadow, then display them and the area around them. Such a search takes anywhere from a few seconds (for an adjacent room) to a few days (for searching the billions of galaxies of shadow earth for a planet of solid gold). One can abandon a search and try something else, if the first search takes too long. The difficulty level of the spell sets the duration of it. At Challenging, the spell lasts about half a day; higher levels last a lot longer. The spell will be detected by anyone of superior Psyche to the caster's, and can penetrate anti-scrying defenses made by anyone of lower Psyche.
Mitsune's Magical Sages	Advanced Sorcery	Intelligent Spells Measure Substance Magical Energy	Average	10 minutes [9 sec]	This summons up the floating heads of Gandalf, Vecna, Merlin, and Morgan le fay. They float around the caster, observing in all directions. If anything magical happens within their line of sight, they analyze what kind of magic is responsible and advise their caster on countermeasures. They last for minutes to hours, depending on the caster's Psyche.
Savoir-Faire	Basic Sorcery	Measure Substance	Difficult	70 minutes [12 sec]	This spell quickly assesses the local culture and conveys upon you the skills needed to pass as a reasonably cultured individual. You thus become familiar with local etiquette, you know enough local law to avoid having yourself executed, you will be able to perform appropriate dances, rituals, etc. It typically lasts from hours to days, depending on your psyche.
Travis' Instant Translator	Basic Sorcery	Measure Substance Mind Touch	Average	10 minutes [9 sec]	This spell enables you to communicate in and comprehend just about any spoken language. It lasts minutes to hours, depending on caster Psyche.
Touga's Eye-Spies	Advanced Sorcery	Intelligent Spells Magical Energy Measure Substance Shadow Manipulation Shadow Opening	Challenging	2 Hours [15 sec]	This spell calls up a dozen or so floating invisible eyes which move at about the speed of a horse. They can be sent out by the caster to look at things, then return to him at some preset duration or condition (such as when they see something happen or when 20 minutes pass or whatever). Other spells can be cast on them to give them special senses (to detect magic or whatever). Those whose Psyche exceeds that of the caster will sense they are being watched.