Book of the Fallen Magus

A torn cover is all that remains of this spellbook. A scratched-out name can barely be discerned on the front: 'Liafella Dmerre'. A penciled portrait of a five-member party of adventurers has been pasted to the back, and a title in delicate calligraphy written below: "Sandpoint Scouts". In the foreground, a half-elf woman with a scimitar and a human with a bow smile sweetly, their arms wrapped around each other's shoulders. Beside them, a halfling woman, identified by the caption as Smaragda, flashes an ironical grin. A line of vials hangs at her belt, and a portable laboratory upon her back. A dwarf, Rubgen, stands proudly to the side, an axe as large as himself resting heavily on his armored shoulder. Behind the rest stands a woman wearing a robe decorated with Desna's butterfly. She leans upon her staff, as if self-conscious of her presence. The name beneath reads Tioko. Her face is marked with a pox. The drawing has been angrily vandalized. All but the half-elf have their eyes scratched out. A scrawling hand has written beside the dwarf, "Shut up about your treasures already! YOU'RE PISSING ME OFF!" Next to the archer: "Keep your trap shut or a black eye will be the least of your troubles!" Next to the alchemist: "Eat with the others, fool! No one cares about you enough to poison you!" The priestess received the greatest abuse: the book's vandal wrote with such passion that the quill tore the paper: "BITCH! You cast another spell on me, and I'll break both your arms!!"