Malign Manual

Wondrous item (requires attunement)

The malign manual is an average-sized spellbook bound in dried animal leather. Text inside the manual is written in blood alongside finger paint-quality annotations made by oversized hands.

You gain a +2 increase to Intelligence when attuned to this item. It has the following additional properties:

Grim knowledge. Different necromantic spells and augments fill the manual’s pages and increase the wielder’s power. Once per day, any necromancy spells contained within the book may be cast at one spell level higher. It currently has the following spells written on its pages:

1st level: alarm, false life, ray of sickness, shield

2nd level: arcane lock, blindness/deafness, ray of enfeeblement

3rd level: animate dead, fear

4th level: blight

5th level: contact other plane

6th level: create undead