An Experiment In Tome Durability.

I am Saarebas of the Tal-Vashoth.

There has been talk of destroying these tomes. I have decided to make a log in which all efforts to destroy or otherwise make the tome unusable are logged for future reference.

Experiment #1: Wetting the pages.

A simple enough experiment in which you simply pour water on the pages to ruin the tome or any writing upon it. Water immediately dried when poured onto tome pages, and the writing was kept intact.

Experiment #2: Tearing out the pages.

Another simple experiment, in which pages are torn from the binding. Torn out pages are immediately replaced, as was any writing on torn out pages.

Experiment #3: Use of a knife.

Well, it would be a sword to you basra.

Stabbing through the tome does nothing, as any damage caused to it is immediately repaired.

So we can infer physical damage to the tome is pointless.

I will not attempt my magic upon it, for magic is temptation and invites danger from both physical mobs and from the ethereal.

I will log down other attempts here.

Future Experiments:

Experiment #4: Cheese. Performed by: An Odd Basra.

Stuffing cheese into the binding and onto the pages does nothing. Smell remains.

Experiment #5: Ale and Fighting. Performed by: A Bearded Man Of About One and a Half Meters (known as "dwarves")

Ale brewed in an apparently underground fortress does nothing when spilled on it. Nor does getting tramped by dwarves.

Experiment #6: Sinking into the Sea Via Anchor. Performed by: A Sailor of Some Sort I Would Imagine

Attached the ledger to an anchor which was than lowered into the sea. The ledger proceeded to find itself back in the possession of the sailor and smelled of salt water. The smell of salt reminds me of my home. Unpleasant.

Experiment #7/#8: Burning Pages/Burning the Book. Performed by: An Basra Woman and An Unknown Man/Woman, Respectively.

Ripping out the pages and burning them destroys the pages, but not permanently so. Burning the book is much the same result.

Getting a flagon of orzammar ale spilled over it and getting trampled in a bar fight doesn't hurt it either.

Not really an intentional experiment, just sayin. These are tough little bastards.

I will contribute one experiment. When the ship I am travelling on weighed anchor, I attached the ledger to it, to see if it would sink and remain in saltwater. Not only did it somehow return to me, despite witnessing it sink before my eyes, it came back dry.

It does however smell of saltwater, which is not entirely unpleasant.

I am Saarebas of the Tal-Vashoth.

But does the burnt page stay permanently destroyed or not? Mundane or magical fire?

There are things to consider, basra.