Archivist’s Shelf

“A mind is sharpest when its library travels with it.”

—Arclavor the Tome-Warden

You conjure an extradimensional bookshelf in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. During the 10 minute casting ritual, if you are holding a nonmagical book, the bookshelf creates a perfect mundane copy of it and stores the copy within its extradimensional space when the spell completes.

The bookshelf’s appearance reflects an aspect of your personality, its wood, carvings, decorations, or overall aesthetic subtly shaped by your nature, memories, or arcane style.

For the duration, you can use an action to summon or dismiss the bookshelf. When summoned, it appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. When dismissed, it vanishes into its extradimensional pocket. You can summon and dismiss it any number of times.

The bookshelf is a wooden construct about 3 feet wide and 5 feet tall. It weighs nothing while dismissed and 40 pounds while present. It can hold up to 150 copied books within its extradimensional space.

Copying Additional Books

While this spell is active and you are touching the bookshelf, you can expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher as an action. When you do, the bookshelf creates a mundane copy of one nonmagical book you are holding and adds it to its collection, up to its maximum capacity of 150 books. This process does not extend the spell’s duration.

Limitations

The bookshelf can’t copy magical books, spellbooks, scrolls, enchanted tomes, or texts containing active magic. Attempting to do so has no effect.

You can have only one Archivist’s Shelf at a time. If you cast this spell while a previous shelf still exists, the older shelf ends immediately.

If the bookshelf takes more than 10 damage from any source, it is destroyed and the spell ends.