Liar's Lexicon
The covers of this book are bound in scratchy, purple leather—hide harvested from a mind-manipulating wormlike monster known as a seugathi. The margins of this grimoire contain hundreds of tips and notes to avoid having your lies discovered. When you prepare spells from a liar's lexicon , you gain a +2 item bonus to Deception checks to Lie.
Activate ◆ envision (spellshape)
Frequency once per day
Effect If your next action is to cast a spell that has the emotion trait, your skill at manipulation and exploiting emotion enhance the spell. The spell gains the linguistic trait. Attempt a Deception check to Lie as you cast the spell against the Perception DC of all those observing you. Those you succeed against think you were merely talking, not casting a spell on a creature.
Traits
Spellbooks are useful tools for any magic user to write down incantations and runes of power, but where most spellbooks are nothing more than ink on parchment, grimoires have absorbed the magic of the spells within—magic that knowledgeable spellcasters can use to augment their spells.
Something with the magical trait is imbued with magical energies not tied to a specific tradition of magic. Some items or effects are closely tied to a particular tradition of magic. In these cases, the item has the arcane, divine, occult, or primal trait instead of the magical trait. Any of these traits indicate that the item is magical.