Patch of the Tome (Patreon)

Wondrous item, common

This canvas patch can be magically attached to a piece of clothing by pressing it against the clothing for 1 minute. The patch remains on the clothing until you remove it. While it's attached to a piece of clothing, the patch's pages occasionally turn to reveal an identical one behind it.

You can remove the patch using an action to magically enhance your reading comprehension and writing skill. You read and write twice as fast for 1 hour. Further, you gain a 1d4 bonus to the first Intelligence check you make for the duration.

Once the patch has been removed from a piece of clothing it's attached to, the patch loses its magic and becomes a mundane patch. If the magic patch is removed from a robe of useful items, the patch has a 50 percent chance to keep its magical properties and can be reattached to a piece of clothing again.

With all the ships safely in port, the boy sat in the quiet harbor library. His hands were ever busy, endlessly stitching. He whispered advice and comfort to the tired sailors in the lamplight, writing home on salt-stained papers with half-dried ink.

No matter who they were or how long they'd been at sea, every sailor writes home with stories to tell and love in their hearts. The boy saw that, more than most, and with every stitch he made, he hoped to keep the threads of family bound together.