title: A Witch's Grimoire: Create Your Own Book Of Shadows
author:  Judy Ann Nock 
description: "Nock's book itself is just gorgeous-suggesting this is a tome filled with ancient knowledge which...is indeed the case." -- <i>New age Journal</i>
zlib_text: The Shadow of the Avatar, Book One
  
  Shadows of Doom
  
  By Ed Greenwood
  
  It is the doom of men that they never know quite enough wisdom until it is too
  late.
  
  Elminster of Shadowdale
  
  Hearken now to a tale of the Realms, ye jaded lords, ladies, and gentles. Oh,
  it is a grand tale, to be sure. It has murder, and magic, and lovemaking—and,
  as usual, you'll misunderstand every word of it.  
  Be not angry, mind; the fault's not with you, or me. Life's like that, you
  see.  
  Lhaeo Rhindaun, Scribe to Elminster  
    
  There is a slim, dark and dusty tome few have ever read....  
    
  It lies hidden beneath a rune-graven flagstone under the circular table in the
  innermost chamber of Candlekeep. This tome is called The Book of Mysteries,
  and it sets forth all that the writer—whose name, of course, has been
  forgotten—knew of the nature and powers of Mystra, the goddess of magic.  
  Chief among the book's secrets of Realmslore is the matter of Mystra's essence
  or vitality. As mistress of magic, her power 