The book’s browned pages have become swollen and wrinkled due to age and exposure to moisture. Crumbling yellow lichen obscures the title on the front cover, rendering it illegible. Harmless spores puff into the air when the book is opened, When found, the book contains the following spells: Chill Touch, Blindness/Deafness, Gentle Repose, Animate Dead, Gaseous Form, Blight, Confusion, Cloudkill, Contagion. It functions as a spellbook for you.

The book has 3 charges, and it regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. You can use the charges in the following ways while holding it:

• If you spend 1 minute studying the book, you can expend 1 charge to replace one of your prepared wizard spells with a different spell in the book. The new spell must be of the Necromancy or Conjuration Schools
• As a reaction, you can expand one charge cast Cloudkill

Notes: Immunity: Disease, Immunity: Poison, Vulnerability: Fire, requires attunement by a wizard