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'''[[Scrolls]]''' are magical [[Consumables]] that allow characters to cast [[Spells]] without expending [[Spells#Spell Slots|Spell Slots]] or being a spellcasting class. Scrolls can be very useful in situations when you do not have any remaining Spell Slots, when you need to cast a Spell that you don't have prepared or when you do not have the required spellcaster in the party.
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{{See also|Scroll (disambiguation)}}
'''[[Scrolls]]''' are magical [[Consumables]] that allow characters to cast [[Spells|spells]] without expending [[Spells#Spell Slots|spell Slots]] or being a spellcasting class. Scrolls can be very useful in situations when you do not have any remaining Spell Slots, when you need to cast a Spell that you don't have prepared or when you do not have the required spellcaster in the party.


== How Scrolls Work ==
== How scrolls work ==
Scrolls in Baldur's Gate 3 follow different rules from the 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. Here are some key points of how scrolls work in BG3:
Scrolls in Baldur's Gate 3 follow different rules from the 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. Here are some key points of how scrolls work in BG3:
* You can cast any [[Spell]] with the appropriate scroll, even if the spell's level is higher than your highest-level spell slots.
* You can cast any [[Spell]] with the appropriate scroll, even if the spell's level is higher than your highest-level spell slots.
* Any class can cast any spell with the appropriate scroll, even if that class cannot normally cast spells.
* Any class can cast any spell with the appropriate scroll, even if that class cannot normally cast spells.
** However, conditions that prevent spellcasting, like [[Rage]] and [[Wild Shape]], still apply to scrolls.
** However, conditions that prevent spellcasting, like [[Rage]] and [[Wild Shape]], still apply to scrolls.
* The {{Attack Roll}} and the [[Difficulty Class]] of the {{SavingThrow}} from scrolls '''always''' benefit from your current [[Proficiency Bonus]] and your class's [[Spells#Spellcasting Ability Modifier|Spellcasting Ability Modifier]], even if your class cannot normally cast spells.
[[File:Scribe Spells Example.webp|thumb|Wizards can scribe Scrolls, adding spells to their spellbook]]
* The {{Attack Roll}} and the [[Difficulty Class]] of the {{SavingThrow}} from scrolls '''always''' benefit from your current [[Proficiency Bonus]] and your class's [[Spells#Spellcasting ability|Spellcasting Ability Modifier]], even if your class cannot normally cast spells. In case of [[multiclassing]], the spellcasting ability is determined by the class the character most recently took a first level in.
* {{SmallIcon|Spell Scribing Icon.webp}} '''Spell Scribing:''' A [[Wizard]] who finds a scroll for a spell they do not know may permanently copy that spell to their spellbook at the cost of {{gold|50}} per level of the spell. This also consumes the scroll.
* {{SmallIcon|Spell Scribing Icon.webp}} '''Spell Scribing:''' A [[Wizard]] who finds a scroll for a spell they do not know may permanently copy that spell to their spellbook at the cost of {{gold|50}} per level of the spell. This also consumes the scroll.
** Cost is reduced to {{gold|25}} per spell level for spells belonging to the same school as the Wizard's subclass ''(see [[Wizard#Level 2|Wizard]] for subclass options)''.
** Cost is reduced to {{gold|25}} per spell level for spells belonging to the same school as the Wizard's subclass ''(see [[Wizard#Level 2|Wizard]] for subclass options)''.
** In the event of a class change, if the character is no longer a wizard but later becomes one again, spells learned with scrolls will still be memorized. At least one wizard level is required to access it.
** Scrolls can not be created (scribed from a wizards spellbook).
** If you try to scribe a spell scroll whose level is too high, the text will say your wizard level is not high enough.  This is misleading.  In order to scribe a higher-level scroll, your ''caster'' level must be high enough to cast that spell, but you only need one level of wizard to scribe any spell in the game.  For example, a character with wizard 1/bard 2 has 2nd-level spell slots, and thus can scribe the 2nd-level wizard spell Detect Thoughts.
*Scrolls that are used to cast spells that offer different variants of the spell, such as selecting an element for [[Chromatic Orb]], cannot be used directly out of the character's inventory and must first be put on the character hotbar.
*Scrolls that are used to cast spells that offer different variants of the spell, such as selecting an element for [[Chromatic Orb]], cannot be used directly out of the character's inventory and must first be put on the character hotbar.
*Scrolls used in combat will not be consumed if successfully countered by an enemy's [[Counterspell]].
*The level requirements for buying scrolls are as follows:
**Level 1: level 1 and 2 spells and also [[Speak with Dead]] which is a level 3 spell. [[Helsik]] can also sell some level 3 and 4 spells to level 1 characters. The following spells can be bought from [[Boney]] by level 1 characters, and he always has them, unlike Helsik whose spells vary: {{SAI|Stoneskin}}, {{SAI|Wall of Stone}}, and {{SAI|Flesh to Stone}}.
**Level 3: level 3 spells
**Level 5: level 4 spells
**Level 7: level 5 spells
**Level 9: level 6 spells


== List of Scrolls ==
== List of scrolls ==
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=== Utility Scrolls ===
=== Utility Scrolls ===
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Speak with Dead|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Speak with Dead|40}}
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=== Rare Utility Scrolls ===
=== Rare utility scrolls ===
''The following are classified as "rare utility scrolls" by the game.''
''The following are classified as "rare utility scrolls" by the game.''
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Dimension Door|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Dimension Door|40}}
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=== Peculiar Scrolls ===
=== Peculiar scrolls ===
''The following scrolls offer spells only available through the scrolls listed.''
''The following scrolls offer spells only available through the scrolls listed.''
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Arcane Eye|40}}
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Artistry of War|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Artistry of War|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Summon Quasit|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Summon Quasit|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bestial Communion|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bestial Communion|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Dethrone|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of True Resurrection|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Signed Trade Visa|40}}
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=== Cantrips ===
=== Cantrips ===
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Acid Splash|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blade Ward|40}}
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bone Chill|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bone Chill|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fire Bolt|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fire Bolt|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ray of Frost|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ray of Frost|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Resistance|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Shocking Grasp|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Shocking Grasp|40}}
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=== Level 1 Spells ===
=== Level 1 spells ===
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Animal Friendship|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Animal Friendship|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Armour of Agathys|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bane|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bless|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Burning Hands|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Burning Hands|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Charm Person|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Charm Person|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Chromatic Orb|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Chromatic Orb|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Colour Spray|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Colour Spray|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Cure Wounds|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Disguise Self|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Disguise Self|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Expeditious Retreat|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Expeditious Retreat|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of False Life|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of False Life|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Find Familiar|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Feather Fall|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Feather Fall|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fog Cloud|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fog Cloud|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Goodberry|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Goodberry|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Grease|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Grease|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Guiding Bolt|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Healing Word|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ice Knife|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ice Knife|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Inflict Wounds|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Jump|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Longstrider|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Mage Armour|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Mage Armour|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Magic Missile|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Magic Missile|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Protection from Evil and Good|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Protection from Evil and Good|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ray of Sickness|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ray of Sickness|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Shield of Faith|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Sleep|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Sleep|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Summon Quasit|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Summon Quasit|40}}
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Witch Bolt|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Witch Bolt|40}}
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=== Level 2 Spells ===
=== Level 2 spells ===
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Aid |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Aid |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Arcane Lock |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Arcane Lock |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Barkskin|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blindness |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blindness |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blur |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blur |40}}
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Flaming Sphere |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Flaming Sphere |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Gust of Wind |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Gust of Wind |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Heat Metal|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Hold Person |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Hold Person |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Invisibility |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Invisibility |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Knock |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Knock |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Lesser Restoration|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Magic Weapon |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Magic Weapon |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Melf's Acid Arrow |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Melf's Acid Arrow |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Mirror Image |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Mirror Image |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Misty Step |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Misty Step |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Moonbeam|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Phantasmal Force |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Prayer of Healing|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Protection from Poison|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ray of Enfeeblement |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ray of Enfeeblement |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Scorching Ray |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Scorching Ray |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of See Invisibility |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of See Invisibility |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Shatter |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Shatter |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Silence|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Spike Growth|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Web |40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Web |40}}
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=== Level 3 Spells ===
=== Level 3 spells ===
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Animate Dead|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Animate Dead|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bestow Curse|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bestow Curse|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blink|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blink|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Counterspell|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fear|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Fear|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Feign Death|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Feign Death|40}}
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=== Level 4 Spells ===
=== Level 4 spells ===
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Banishment|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Banishment|40}}
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Greater Invisibility|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Greater Invisibility|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ice Storm|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Ice Storm|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Otiluke's Resilient Sphere|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Phantasmal Killer|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Phantasmal Killer|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Polymorph|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Polymorph|40}}
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Wall of Fire|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Wall of Fire|40}}
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=== Level 5 Spells ===
=== Level 5 spells ===
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Artistry of War|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Artistry of War|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bestial Communion|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Cloudkill|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Cloudkill|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Cone of Cold|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Cone of Cold|40}}
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Seeming|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Seeming|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Telekinesis|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Telekinesis|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Wall of Stone|40}}


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=== Level 6 Spells ===
=== Level 6 spells ===
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bestial Communion|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Chain Lightning|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Circle of Death|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Disintegrate|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Disintegrate|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Wall of Stone|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Circle of Death|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Chain Lightning|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Eyebite|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Eyebite|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Flesh to Stone|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Flesh to Stone|40}}
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Sunbeam|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Sunbeam|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Wall of Ice|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Wall of Ice|40}}
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== Unavailable scrolls ==
Scrolls that can-not be obtained in the game, but are still able to be spawned using 3rd party tools.
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Arcane Eye|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Counterspell|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Dispel Magic|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Find Familiar|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Jump|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Longstrider|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Otiluke's Resilient Sphere|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Phantasmal Force |40}}
== Unobtainable scrolls ==
Scrolls that can-not be obtained in the game and are not able to be spawned using 3rd party tools.
Note - Most of these scrolls existed in the Early Access version of the game. In the release version of the game, most non-wizard spell scrolls were removed due to the ability of wizards to learn spells from scrolls.
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*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Resistance|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Armour of Agathys|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bane|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Bless|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Guiding Bolt|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Shield of Faith|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Cure Wounds|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Healing Word|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Moonbeam|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Inflict Wounds|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Acid Splash|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Blade Ward|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Prayer of Healing|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Barkskin|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Protection from Poison|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Heat Metal|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Lesser Restoration|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Silence|40}}
*{{RarityItem|Scroll of Spike Growth|40}}
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Latest revision as of 15:39, 8 December 2024

Scrolls are magical Consumables that allow characters to cast spells without expending spell Slots or being a spellcasting class. Scrolls can be very useful in situations when you do not have any remaining Spell Slots, when you need to cast a Spell that you don't have prepared or when you do not have the required spellcaster in the party.

How scrolls work[edit | edit source]

Scrolls in Baldur's Gate 3 follow different rules from the 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons ruleset. Here are some key points of how scrolls work in BG3:

  • You can cast any Spell with the appropriate scroll, even if the spell's level is higher than your highest-level spell slots.
  • Any class can cast any spell with the appropriate scroll, even if that class cannot normally cast spells.
    • However, conditions that prevent spellcasting, like Rage and Wild Shape, still apply to scrolls.
Wizards can scribe Scrolls, adding spells to their spellbook
  • The Attack roll and the Difficulty Class of the Saving throw from scrolls always benefit from your current Proficiency Bonus and your class's Spellcasting Ability Modifier, even if your class cannot normally cast spells. In case of multiclassing, the spellcasting ability is determined by the class the character most recently took a first level in.
  • Spell Scribing: A Wizard who finds a scroll for a spell they do not know may permanently copy that spell to their spellbook at the cost of Gold Pile Single Item Image.png 50 gp per level of the spell. This also consumes the scroll.
    • Cost is reduced to Gold Pile Single Item Image.png 25 gp per spell level for spells belonging to the same school as the Wizard's subclass (see Wizard for subclass options).
    • In the event of a class change, if the character is no longer a wizard but later becomes one again, spells learned with scrolls will still be memorized. At least one wizard level is required to access it.
    • Scrolls can not be created (scribed from a wizards spellbook).
    • If you try to scribe a spell scroll whose level is too high, the text will say your wizard level is not high enough. This is misleading. In order to scribe a higher-level scroll, your caster level must be high enough to cast that spell, but you only need one level of wizard to scribe any spell in the game. For example, a character with wizard 1/bard 2 has 2nd-level spell slots, and thus can scribe the 2nd-level wizard spell Detect Thoughts.
  • Scrolls that are used to cast spells that offer different variants of the spell, such as selecting an element for Chromatic Orb, cannot be used directly out of the character's inventory and must first be put on the character hotbar.
  • Scrolls used in combat will not be consumed if successfully countered by an enemy's Counterspell.
  • The level requirements for buying scrolls are as follows:
    • Level 1: level 1 and 2 spells and also Speak with Dead which is a level 3 spell. Helsik can also sell some level 3 and 4 spells to level 1 characters. The following spells can be bought from Boney by level 1 characters, and he always has them, unlike Helsik whose spells vary: Stoneskin Stoneskin, Wall of Stone Wall of Stone, and Flesh to Stone Flesh to Stone.
    • Level 3: level 3 spells
    • Level 5: level 4 spells
    • Level 7: level 5 spells
    • Level 9: level 6 spells

List of scrolls[edit | edit source]

Utility Scrolls[edit | edit source]

The following are classified as "utility scrolls" by the game.

Rare utility scrolls[edit | edit source]

The following are classified as "rare utility scrolls" by the game.

Peculiar scrolls[edit | edit source]

The following scrolls offer spells only available through the scrolls listed.

Cantrips[edit | edit source]

Level 1 spells[edit | edit source]

Level 2 spells[edit | edit source]

Level 3 spells[edit | edit source]

Level 4 spells[edit | edit source]

Level 5 spells[edit | edit source]

Level 6 spells[edit | edit source]

Unavailable scrolls[edit | edit source]

Scrolls that can-not be obtained in the game, but are still able to be spawned using 3rd party tools.

Unobtainable scrolls[edit | edit source]

Scrolls that can-not be obtained in the game and are not able to be spawned using 3rd party tools.

Note - Most of these scrolls existed in the Early Access version of the game. In the release version of the game, most non-wizard spell scrolls were removed due to the ability of wizards to learn spells from scrolls.