4. Easier Casting

It's worth noting that casting spells through the Mirror of Evaluation has a few drawbacks. Most obviously, it's a massive hassle drawing those two patterns every time. Potentially more importantly though, any spell cast happening through the mirror can only execute at most 64 circles . That really isn't a lot!

This is where Wands come in. As briefly mentioned in the first chapter, wands execute any spell inscribed onto them when right-clicked.

What's inscribing you may ask? Actually, you've already partially interacted with it. Notulist's Delusion , used in chapter two, is used to read an inscribed spell from an item. This works on Scrolls because a spell written on them technically counts as being inscribed.

Spells can actually be inscribed onto any item, though only Scrolls and Mirrors let you directly edit them.

Writing a spell to an item can be done by using Notulist's Ploy . Similarly to Grand Stratagem , it only takes one input, and provides no output.

You can use a spell like the following in a mirror to read and inscribe a spell.

First draw the small pattern while holding your spell, then swap to the item you want to inscribe, and draw the other pattern.

Inscribing a spell onto a Wand will give it an enchanted glint, and show the inscribed spell in its tooltip.

When you use your new Wand, a Spell Slot is consumed while the spell runs, allowing the spell to run for as long as needed to complete.

Combining all this, try inscribing the following spell onto a Wand:

Once you have it inscribed, try it out to see what it does. After that, try looking up the tricks to see how !