Skills/Inscription

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Inscription is the scribe's craft: copying spells from your spellbook onto blank scrolls, and binding runebooks. Scrolls let anyone cast a spell without a spellbook, and runebooks hold up to 16 recall runes in one book.

At a glance

Skill cap	100 (Grandmaster)
Tool	scribe's pen (8 gold at scribes and mages)
Materials	blank scrolls (5 gold at scribes and mages), reagents and mana
Main uses	Spell scrolls, necromancy scrolls, runebooks
Stats it trains	Intelligence and Dexterity

How to inscribe

Double-click a scribe's pen to open the inscription menu, then choose a spell circle and the scroll you want. To write a spell scroll you need:

the spell in a spellbook in your backpack (You don't have that spell! if not),
enough mana for that spell's circle (You lack the mana required to inscribe that spell.),
the spell's reagents, and one blank scroll.

Your chance starts at 0% at the bottom of the skill range and rises to 100% at the top. On success: You inscribe the spell and put the scroll in your backpack. On failure: You fail to inscribe the scroll, and the scroll is ruined.

Magery scrolls

Every Magery spell can be written. Each circle has its own skill range:

Circle	Skill range	Mana used
First	0–25	4
Second	0–39.2	6
Third	3.5–53.5	9
Fourth	17.8–67.8	11
Fifth	32.1–82.1	14
Sixth	46.4–96.4	20
Seventh	60.7–110.7	40
Eighth	75–125	50

Scroll	Circle	Skill range	Mana	Materials
Clumsy	First	0–25	4	+
Create Food	First	0–25	4	+
Feeblemind	First	0–25	4	+
Heal	First	0–25	4	+
Magic Arrow	First	0–25	4	+
Night Sight	First	0–25	4	+
Reactive Armor	First	0–25	4	+
Weaken	First	0–25	4	+
Agility	Second	0–39.2	6	+
Cunning	Second	0–39.2	6	+
Cure	Second	0–39.2	6	+
Harm	Second	0–39.2	6	+
Magic Trap	Second	0–39.2	6	+
Remove Trap	Second	0–39.2	6	+
Protection	Second	0–39.2	6	+
Strength	Second	0–39.2	6	+
Bless	Third	3.5–53.5	9	+
Fireball	Third	3.5–53.5	9	+
Magic Lock	Third	3.5–53.5	9	+
Poison	Third	3.5–53.5	9	+
Telekinesis	Third	3.5–53.5	9	+
Teleport	Third	3.5–53.5	9	+
Unlock	Third	3.5–53.5	9	+
Wall of Stone	Third	3.5–53.5	9	+
Arch Cure	Fourth	17.8–67.8	11	+
Arch Protection	Fourth	17.8–67.8	11	+
Curse	Fourth	17.8–67.8	11	+
Fire Field	Fourth	17.8–67.8	11	+
Greater Heal	Fourth	17.8–67.8	11	+
Lightning	Fourth	17.8–67.8	11	+
Mana Drain	Fourth	17.8–67.8	11	+
Recall	Fourth	17.8–67.8	11	+
Blade Spirits	Fifth	32.1–82.1	14	+
Dispel Field	Fifth	32.1–82.1	14	+
Incognito	Fifth	32.1–82.1	14	+
Magic Reflection	Fifth	32.1–82.1	14	+
Mind Blast	Fifth	32.1–82.1	14	+
Paralyze	Fifth	32.1–82.1	14	+
Poison Field	Fifth	32.1–82.1	14	+
Summon Creature	Fifth	32.1–82.1	14	+
Dispel	Sixth	46.4–96.4	20	+
Energy Bolt	Sixth	46.4–96.4	20	+
Explosion	Sixth	46.4–96.4	20	+
Invisibility	Sixth	46.4–96.4	20	+
Mark	Sixth	46.4–96.4	20	+
Mass Curse	Sixth	46.4–96.4	20	+
Paralyze Field	Sixth	46.4–96.4	20	+
Reveal	Sixth	46.4–96.4	20	+
Chain Lightning	Seventh	60.7–110.7	40	+
Energy Field	Seventh	60.7–110.7	40	+
Flame Strike	Seventh	60.7–110.7	40	+
Gate Travel	Seventh	60.7–110.7	40	+
Mana Vampire	Seventh	60.7–110.7	40	+
Mass Dispel	Seventh	60.7–110.7	40	+
Meteor Swarm	Seventh	60.7–110.7	40	+
Polymorph	Seventh	60.7–110.7	40	+
Earthquake	Eighth	75–125	50	+
Energy Vortex	Eighth	75–125	50	+
Resurrection	Eighth	75–125	50	+
Air Elemental	Eighth	75–125	50	+
Summon Daemon	Eighth	75–125	50	+
Earth Elemental	Eighth	75–125	50	+
Fire Elemental	Eighth	75–125	50	+
Water Elemental	Eighth	75–125	50	+

Necromancy scrolls

With a necromancer spellbook you can also copy Necromancy spells. Each needs the spell in your book, its mana, its necromantic reagents and one blank scroll. Once you have the listed Inscription, the scroll always succeeds a point later.

Scroll	Inscription needed	Mana	Materials
Animate Dead	39.6	23	+
Blood Oath	19.6	13	+
Corpse Skin	19.6	11	+
Curse Weapon	19.6	7	+
Evil Omen	19.6	11	+
Horrific Beast	39.6	11	+
Lich Form	69.6	23	+
Mind Rot	29.6	17	+
Pain Spike	19.6	5	+
Poison Strike	49.6	17	+
Strangle	64.6	29	+
Summon Familiar	29.6	17	+
Vampiric Embrace	98.6	23	+
Vengeful Spirit	79.6	41	+
Wither	59.6	23	+
Wraith Form	79.6	17	+

Runebooks

A runebook (45 to 95 skill) takes 8 blank scrolls, a recall scroll and a gate travel scroll. Drop recall runes on it to store them, then recall or gate from the book directly. It holds up to 16 runes.

Training Inscription

Every scroll you attempt inside its skill range is a chance to gain. Pick the circle whose range you're nearest the bottom of.
Cheap first and second circle scrolls take you a long way; the later circles cost more mana and reagents.
Sell your scrolls to mages and scribes to recover some of the cost.
Below 10.0 you gain on every attempt, sometimes several tenths at once. Above that, each attempt has a chance to gain 0.1.
The harder the attempt is for your skill level, the better your chance to gain. Your chance also drops as you get closer to your Inscription cap and to your total skill cap of 700.
If you've set Inscription to go down (the arrow in your skills list), gains elsewhere can lower it to make room under your total cap. Lock skills you want to keep.
Reaching 100.0 adds Inscription to the Skills Mastered count on your achievements.
Scribes, mages, holy mages and mage guildmasters will train you for gold: up to a third of their own skill, at most 42.0, for 1 gold per 0.1 points. Ask them (or use their context menu) to train the skill, then drop the gold on them.

Stats: each successful use has a smaller chance (under 1%) to raise Dexterity and about a 2% chance to raise Intelligence by 1 point. Each stat can rise at most once every 10 minutes, and only if it's set to rise.

Suggested path

Inscription	How to train
0 to about 33	Buy it from a scribe or mage.
33 to 45	Third circle scrolls, such as Bless or Magic Lock.
45 to 60	Fourth circle scrolls (Arch Protection, Recall).
60 to 75	Fifth circle scrolls (Blade Spirits, Magic Reflection).
75 to 90	Sixth circle scrolls (Invisibility, Mark).
90 to 100	Seventh circle scrolls (Flame Strike, Gate Travel).

Tips

Meditate while you write. Mana is usually the slowest part; Meditation speeds it up.
Keep a full spellbook. You can only copy spells you know.
Scrolls cast more easily than spellbook spells, so they make good backups for mages.