The Way of the Spider
This weighty tome is more than two thousand pages thick. The pages are thin and brittle, almost translucent, but formulated so as to be immune to the ravages of time. They are covered in thin, web-like writing and glossy, detailed images of spiders and their anatomy. The cover is gray leather, covered in a tight network of raised spiderwebs. A large black and read spider is embossed on the front and back covers. The pages are somehow infused with the essence of Madam Mina of the Ravnos, and the tome counts as one of her body relics for the purposes of casting rituals. It even contains several blank pages that may be torn out and used for rituals that require the body relic to be destroyed.
The pages detail in excruciatingly oblique detail the Order Araneae (of the Class Arachnida), commonly known as spiders. It covers their lifecycles, hunting instincts, mating behaviors, the phisiology of web and venom production, and the various uses and methods of for extraction of their venom and other body parts and products. A careful reading reveals that tome details what Kateb Zek quaintly called “Magic of the Mind-Spider:” a method for using people's fears to influence their behavior. It is possible, after several weeks of dedicated study to discover a series of rituals akin to the rank 3 power of Oneromancy, Dreamspeak, save that they are narrowly focused on the power of nightmares.
Rank 1 Dur'an'ki.
Rank 2 Dur'an'ki.
Rank 3 Dur'an'ki.
Rank 4 Dur'an'ki.
Rank 5 Dur'an'ki.
