Walking frostbound tome

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walking frostbound tome ;
HP	66-133
HD	20
XP	1652
Speed	10
AC	10
EV	10
Will	Immune
Attack1	20 (hit: cold)
Resistances	rC+ rPois+++ rDrown rMiasma rN+++ rTorm
Vulnerabilities	Fire
Habitat	Land
Intelligence	Brainless
Uses	Uses nothing
Holiness	Non-living
Size	Small
Type	walking tome, frostbound tome
Flags

A spellbook that has gone too long without being read. It overflows with magic, forming thick armour from its binding, legs from its pages, and periodically erupting in flurries of free-floating, self-casting spells. It glistens with a thick layer of unmelting ice.

Useful Info

Walking frostbound tomes conjure living Iceblast spells. In addition to their spells, frostbound tomes can deal up to 60 additional cold damage in melee. Walking tomes are most often seen in the Depths and the wizlab, Tukima's Studio.

Spells

Spell set I
Slot1	Conjure Living Spells (2-3x 3d26)	Wizard flag

Tips & Tricks

• Cold resistance definitely helps, though Iceblast ignores 50% of cold resistance.
• Living spells work similarly to the player Foxfire spell. It creates a living spell entity, which must have a direct path to a hostile target. If you are in melee range with a tome in a corridor, most of the living spells will be unable to hit you. But unlike the foxfire spell, living spells can spawn behind the player (radius-2 of the walking tome), so a corridor is not foolproof.
  • You can attack a living spell, which will destroy it before it gets the chance to cast itself. Most types of AOE spells can destroy a few spells while damaging the tome in the process.
• Silence works on walking tomes, preventing them from casting at all.

History

• Prior to 0.30, walking tomes' spells weren't silenceable.
• Walking tomes were added in 0.28.