Allows a character to imbue a text with magic runes that trigger when the text is read. First employed frequently by the Direnni Hegemony to protect their writings, this technique is used by a number of mages to keep their secrets safe from prying eyes.
This ritual requires several hours of inscription, in which runes are written on a number of pages in a precise order to achieve the desired effect. The character creates a single magic component as if they were creating a non-standard spell, except they must use the Touch form when doing so. Once the cost, effects, and difficulty of the spell have been calculated the character must make a test with the appropriate skill for the chosen school of magic at the level of the spell plus an additional -10 penalty. On success, the spell is bound to the text. The next person unfortunate enough to read the book without being informed of how to avoid the trap will trigger it, and the magic will automatically cast from the book onto them: it may not be evaded or otherwise defended against.