Tome of Planar Wonderings and Wanderings (Patreon)

Wondrous item, legendary

This book contains musings and detailed intricacies of the nature of the Planes of Existence throughout the multiverse. If you spend 48 hours over a period of 6 days or fewer studying the book's contents and practicing its guidelines, your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores each increase by 1. If either your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma score is already at its maximum, you can increase one of the other two scores by 2, instead of 1.

In addition, you gain the ability to magically sense the presence of planar portals or extradimensional spaces. As an action, you detect the distance and direction to either the closest planar portal within 3 miles of you or to the nearest opening to an extradimensional space within 30 feet of you. When you finish studying this book it loses its magic, but regains it in a century.

The elven boy looked up at the mysterious woman as she handed him a book. His eyes were wide with excitement, both at the unexpected gift, but also because it he'd never seen a human in the Wilds, let alone someone as famous as her.

She looked from the boy back to his parents and exchanged knowing looks and smiles. "If he's been enjoying reading my journals at this age, he'll be ready to make the most of this book by the time he can wield a blade or spell." She looked back to the boy. "I know it shaped my life. Hopefully it can his."

She knelt down to rest at eye level with the young fey. "Now, when it's time to read this, you can add your name to the front page, okay? Just under mine."

She stood again and bid her goodbyes to the small family. With a simple turn and wave of her hand, she was gone.

The boy looked to his parents again, still too excited to speak, and then opened the book to its first page. His finger raced down the list of names there, each one's ink more faded from time than the last. At the bottom, right above where he would some day sign it, he whispered aloud to himself:

"Irina Fletch."