Magicka-Lua Spell Tomes

[tiny iris]

Spell Tomes are now in Morrowind. Learn 300+ vanilla spells from books and teach spells to your companions

-# I missed Skyrim spell tomes so I added them to Morrowind

The Spell Tomes
Magic Books of Morrowind to Study/Cast to

Purchase them at your local Enchanter, Bookseller, or occasionally on the corpses of magic-users in the wild 📘 📕 📗 📙

Features

📕Find spell tomes dynamically in the world
📕Teach your companions (or any NPCs) spells by giving them the corresponding spell tome
📗 Learn vanilla spells from spell tomes rather than hunting down spell vendors
📗 Lore-friendly book covers and designs, I worked hard balance the aesthetic of vanilla Morrowind while still being recognizable for their class
📗 Quality of Life improvements for people who use Faction Service Restrictions or who play without Early Transport to Mournhold and other mods limiting spell-learning services
📗 Compatible with localizations other than English (just note that the text from the message box will be in English, but the spell learned will be in your native language)

📙 Optional files 📙
📘 A version that only includes the item IDs and cheat chests
📘 An optional mod that changes the magic schools of a few spells - Turn Undead is now Restoration and Command Creature/Humanoid is Illusion (a version of the spell tomes changes the covers to reflect this change)

[dire narwhal]

great title

[tiny iris]

Blessed, thank you

[dire narwhal]

Any chance of more expensive version? I have enough spell book mods now that I can replace the spell barter menu ingame 😅 Id prefer if they were closer to vanilla pricing. If your not bothered I'll probably figure it out myself soon, just haven't had a good look yet

It's great btw, thank you. I love the vibe of properly buying/finding spells

[tiny iris]

Yeah I'm going to work on an economy fix, i haven't decided if it would be an omwscripts or if i'd go through all the tomes ... again haha

[gleaming elk]

me omw to immediately get fortify skill

[tiny iris]

Literally one of the reasons why I made it

I’ll upload the omw version here soon but i think there are around 10-20 spell tomes for fortify skill, so you have a good chance to get them

Like 5% of the total are just fortify skill 💀

[tiny iris]

OpenMW exclusive versions are out - find spell tomes out in the world and teach spells to your companions with them

[tiny iris]

Magicka-Lua Spell Tomes

[blazing idol]

Any plans on making a more hi-rez textures and normal maps for the books? 👀

[tiny iris]

I could def do higher res textures, I just wanted to keep kinda faithful to vanilla

I actually had to compress them a few times and warp them to fit in with vanilla stuff

They’re also very overdue for an update that I just haven’t uploaded

[solar ivy]

high res and normal maps would be great

[lucid slate]

hey, just reporting on my end this mod's causing plants in TR to switch to its picked graphic herbalism mesh when I change cells. if the plant's picked mesh happens to be empty, the plant disappears
no error logs that I can see

steps to repro on my end:

• coc "Sadri Ancestral Tomb" (in mainland)
• get out, walk up to comberry patch directly to the east
• reenter tomb, then leave again
• comberry bushes has its picked herbalism mesh, but could still be harvested

[tiny iris]

Yeah I’m aware of that, I’ll be revisiting this mod here soon and will fix that bug

If it’s urgent I can grab the fix for you now though

[lucid slate]

ah no hurry

[blazing idol]

Maybe spell tomes could use a little filtering

T_BkGen_BusinessLedger_02

[blazing idol]

Got myself this unique quest book replaced with a spell tome

[tiny iris]

Damn, yeah they’re only supposed to replace things that don’t have a script on them

When I clean this mod up I’m gonna hardcode the list of books

[blazing idol]

Hmmmm, does spell tome distribution system have any magic school biases? Owner's highest skills, location (mages guild, regular shop, house, etc), for example

[tiny iris]

Nope

Have something in mind?

[balmy timber]

Maybe spell books of a certain level show corresponding to the level of the players skill

Specific spell books show in certain shops

[tiny iris]

That’s already in effect

[blazing idol]

Ehhh, something along the lines of what I've mentioned, probably

• Owned by an NPC -> biased toeards their highest or major/minor magic skills
• MG/Telvanni faction-owned -> random
• Temple/Cult -> biased towards their favored magic schools (destruction magic might not make much sense for them to have)
• Vendor-owned -> random
• Unowned -> random or biased to any non-hostile NPC in the cell if there are any

[tiny iris]

Yeah good ideas

[blazing idol]

I also don't remember if you already blacklisted certain spells which don't make sense being taught in the books: vampire touch, call wolf and bear

[tiny iris]

Yeah that’s in the update, I created spell tomes for those so that the player could relearn them if they were deleted but that can just be a quest/vampire check

[blazing idol]

I just got the vampire spell and its hella op :d

[tiny iris]

Yeah haha

[blazing idol]

There was also one interesting concept from Skyrim - learning spells from spell tomes takes time. There it doesn't really affect anything significantly, but with all current MW mods it might make it for an interesting feature 🧐

[balmy timber]

Level 10 with vampiric drain 💀💀

[blazing idol]

*Skyrim mod

[tiny iris]

Yeah I was thinking about doing something with that too, the menu for the Skyrim mod was kinda interesting too

[balmy timber]

Like you would have to learn 5 fire bite book to actually learn the spell?

[tiny iris]

Not sure exactly how I’ll go about it yet

It’s good with survival mods

[balmy timber]

Or take the time to learn out of the day to get the spell?

[blazing idol]

Ehhh, it's really basic with 9 buttons for 1-8 hours and cancel

[tiny iris]

Yeah haha

But there’s no easy UI for that in openmw

So I’d have to repurpose one of mine or something

[blazing idol]

Maybe hardcode ids of spell-teaching books and prevent them from activating unless you "studied" them for ling enough? 🧐

[tiny iris]

Yeah the issue is the UI

I could just have studying be one hour and the player just spam activate the book

[blazing idol]

Text input for hours spent

[tiny iris]

Kinda thinking this route lol

[blazing idol]

Or maybe a fill bar faked with a scroll bar

[tiny iris]

Maybe

I could maybe do a kind of castbar or something

[blazing idol]

If openmw has any clipping mask type of feature or clever item layering

Or maybe just a counter with 2 buttons for + and - (or up and down arrows)

Though something similar to resting hud would probably the best option

Ralts already has something like it for his Inventory Extender too

[blazing idol]

It would also make sense for time to scale with complexity of the spell... And this will probably add a lot of work for tying the spell tomes to their spell ids

Btw if you would get around to actually implementing it, I have a full spell book list for Tamriel_Data in Shelf Control you could use

[tiny iris]

Oh word that’s good to know

[fallow vine]

Not only TR. #troubleshooting message

[wispy echo]

heilkitty811

Guys, I have a problem with herbalism. Unharvested plants could be shown as harvested. What could cause the problem, how can I debug this, and has anyone else experienced it?
https://youtu.be/NFDdscRsZWM

Linked by @​heilkitty811 from #troubleshooting · Apr 20, 2026, 4:22 PM

[tiny iris]

Yeah I’ll be updating this mod before modathon, sorry it’s been taking so long haha

[tiny iris]

Looks like this mod will be on the route to becoming similar to the spell tomes half of the Magicka Expanded mod for MWSE https://www.nexusmods.com/morrowind/mods/47111

Other than the bug fixes does anyone have any feature requests? Trying to make it as easy as possible to create spell tomes for the 0.51 custom spells

[blazing idol]

only the issues I was reporting earlier :p

• exclusion of spell tomes for spells which are supposed to be available only via quests
• exclusion of certain books from replacement where it doesn't make sense - business ledgers from TR and such

[tiny iris]

Yeah I’ll be hardcoding a list of the books that can be replaced by spell tomes and possibly limiting them to only replace books that the player has activated before, definitely will be excluding rare TR books and OAAB books

[tiny iris]

Working on this mod now btw, bugs are fixed, spelltomes added for TR spells, whitelist for accurate book replacing …

[dire narwhal]

How many individual tomes is that?

[tiny iris]

512 or so

[white anvil]

Would be great to have a ‘rarity’ based system based on spell power and similarly skilled requirements to be able to ‘decipher’ the tomes with some fun lore flavour text that hints at the skill needed.

I had an initial hack around to add this to the original

[tiny iris]

I don’t have any skill requirements in this mod but I plan on making a separate mod that does some fun stuff with them like putting restrictions to learning and consequences and stuff

Just finished distributing the spell tomes to booksellers and magic-ish classes with lua, last thing before the update is creating an API for other modders to create spell tomes from their new custom spells

[white anvil]

You had some skeleton of skill requirements in the MWScripts (or whatever they’re called) that are attached to the books i had a hack around with (with our AI overlords) to edits them to add some skill-gating.

I can send a zip later if interested. I’d imagine your ideas are much better though

[tiny iris]

Although all the spell tomes are in an esp and have a line of code in each of the toddscripts that can be adjusted for an intelligence level requirement, it’s like 2 right now or something

[white anvil]

That’s the one, the sacred toddscripts

[tiny iris]

It’s possible to create all the spell tomes in lua but I want other esp mods to be able to see them in case they want to add spell tomes as quest rewards or something

[white anvil]

Makes a lot of sense, I guess toddscripts are ‘compile time’ only maybe? So any skill gating there would be hardcoded.

Can’t say I’ve made the effort yet to fully understand the ecosystem beyond some AI assisted hacking

[tiny iris]

Yeah, mwscript is very different from lua haha. It’s very limited in what it can do but a script like this serves its purpose. It’s also easy for other lua mods to detect them, so they can add features or exclude them like shelf control does I think 🧐

And yeah you would have to hardcode the skill requirements. You could come up with formulas if you wanted but that’s not something I want to touch in toddscript haha

[white anvil]

Totally understand 😂

[white anvil]

In case it is interesting, this is my hacky patch.
IIRC it adds the skill gating to the esp records with fun flavour text, plus the 'rarity-based' spawning (though I can't say I ever really tested it).

Example 'lore text':
Skill gate (player->GetMysticism >= 25):
"There is a spell to be learned here, but you cannot decipher it. The arcane threads speak a language only partially decipherable to the untrained -- one would need at least a foot in the door of the Mysterium to begin."

Skill gate( player->GetDestruction >= 50):
"There is a spell to be learned here, but you cannot decipher it. The power here is that of a seasoned battle-mage -- one who has faced real opponents and come away with a deeper understanding of Destruction."

Skill gate(player->GetConjuration >= 75):
"There is a spell to be learned here, but you cannot decipher it. The Daedric forces encoded here would only answer to one whose name the lesser planes already know -- a mage of considerable standing in the conjuring arts."

I think there's one for each school/combo and each of the tiers: Novice -> Master

I quite enjoy the vagueness vs "Need Destruction 50 to learn".
Fits into that alien feeling of Morrowind

[tiny iris]

Okay, fixed all the bugs, added spelltomes for TR spells, hardcoded a list of books to replace (all are common, none are quest items), hardcoded list of the quest spells so they only have a 1% chance to spawn if the setting is enabled, gave spell tomes to booksellers, NPCs with a class somewhat related to magic have a chance to carry a spell tome, TR and OAAB classes are covered, and added an API for modders to register their own spell tomes that are distributed

need to test the API a bit more but everything else seems to be working

[blazing idol]

now that's a mouthful

[tiny iris]

Long night/day

[tiny iris]

Fortunately i had most of the code from my other mods so i think it was more work to figure out that mwscript bs than to put the rest together

[tiny iris]

Good news everyone

In case you don't feel like going down to narsis

[blazing idol]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/492184225907212288/770181337934987305/image0.gif

[fallow vine]

Is it possible to give spell tomes custom price tags instead of flat 100 $eptims?

[fallow vine]

https://tenor.com/view/miside-players-when-they-idk-i-never-played-the-game-miside-player-miside-players-gif-11878935567944144514

[tiny iris]

Sure although I'm not keen on doing all 386 xd but all the spell tomes are in an esp so if someone wanted to replace/patch it they could

The update will have an interface that will let you do shenanigans with spell tomes for custom spells, you have to create the book in the load script so you can set the prices to whatever you want

[tiny iris]

And with that I'm done for the night

[tiny iris]

Spell Tomes v2.0

Features

• Booksellers now sell spell tomes alongside Enchanters
• 50+ magic or magically-aligned classes from vanilla, TD, and OAAB have a chance (configurable) of carrying a spell tome
• If you already know a spell, its corresponding spell tome will skip being distributed so that you won't get copies in the world of spells you already know
• A separate spawn chance now exists for rare spells which by default do not spawn. These include Vampire Touch, Aryon's Cure Blight, Call Bear, Call Wolf, Passwall, and Radiant Shield.
• Tamriel Data/Tamriel Rebuilt spells added. TR spells have a higher weight to them and have a higher chance of spawning than other spells. Be sure to grab Unofficial TR Spells if you haven't already, not required but highly recommended.

Interop

• Unofficial TR Spells - Aside from giving the spells actual gameplay and an alternative way to learn the spells other than traveling from Narsis to Firewatch, if Insight spell effect is active you will find better spell tomes.
• Utility Spells - Adds spell tomes to all spells from this mod
• Merits of Service - Receive spell tomes as rewards from completing appropriate faction quests
• Follower Detection Util - Companion behavior shifted to this mod
• Inventory Extender - tooltips to show if a spell is known/unlearned

Fixes

• No more quest books being replaced even if they don't have a script on them
• Organic containers will no longer bug out with this mod installed
• No more clipping and floating books

Modder API

• If you want to create spell tomes for custom spells, you can register those with this mod's API which has both global and player registration
• The ST_api.lua and ST_example.lua show the registration system and how to use it. Other mods can drop a .lua file under the scripts/SpellTomes/ VFS for both global and player access, or call I.SpellTomes.registerTome{} from your own player script. Each def can specify learn spell trigger, custom message and sound, draw weight, distribution flags, vendor skill/level requirements, an onLearned callback, and several other params.
• The .esp included in this mod relies entirely on the existing mwscripts, so there's nothing in place to teach spells on the lua side. The new player script has teachSpellTome, fired on a UiModeChanged to 'Book' or 'Scroll', which adds the spell to the player, plays a configurable sound, and shows a configurable message. Books added by load or in an esp (and probably generated books, I just didn't test those) can work without attaching toddscripts to them. If you need learning a spell in a player script, this is what you'd want to use
• Books can also teach on activation if using a global script. A registered tome can set learnTrigger = "activate", and the global script will teach the spell the moment the player activates the book in the world, though this will fire before the UI mode changes. Useful for tomes and spells if you don't want a player script.
• If you need additional help feel free to ask or you can look at the Utility Spells update I'll upload later today

[blazing idol]

for a second thought that it's Ashfall UI

[tiny iris]

No haha I just hide the SD UI for super vanilla screenshots

[dark zephyr]

I love all your mods. But I wanted to know, is there an (potential) option of vanilla book covers for the spell tomes?

[tiny iris]

No but you can replace any of the textures files with vanilla textures. I was thinking about making a desaturated version that matches with the vanilla game more, or do you want them to just really blend in with vanilla books?

[dark zephyr]

desaturated might work, yes

[tiny iris]

Why do I get this on my phone and not my computer

[fierce furnace]

Tell em it's ass from me

[tiny iris]

Don’t worry I did

All the changes to uploading files and they couldn’t fix their mod description smh

At least images and YouTube embeds are better

[fierce furnace]

I think they are. But the mobile first design annoys the fuck out of me. Who the hell would develop or upload a mod from mobile

[tiny iris]

Fr

[blazing idol]

What are the odds this is a first spell tome I see

Twice in a row

Thrice

[tiny iris]

Did you see it in two different places?

[blazing idol]

Yes

[tiny iris]

Oh ok haha

[blazing idol]

At Arriles, Jobasha's and Dorila's (Balmora)

[tiny iris]

If you learn the spell it'll stop spawning

[blazing idol]

But this is supposed to be a rare spell

[tiny iris]

Blessed Touch?

[blazing idol]

the one from Serpent birthsign

[tiny iris]

Shi my bad

[blazing idol]

*ritual

the one Ygfa mistakenly has in vanilla

I also double checked my settings multiple times to be default

[tiny iris]

Yeah I don't have it marked as a rare spell tried to grab them all from memory but clearly missed some

Eventually I'll add a spell or power to transmute(?) spell tomes

[blazing idol]

and even then
3 times in a row?

sounds sus to me 🧐

[tiny iris]

Probably because you have a high cast chance since it's a birthsign spell, probably doesn't cost much magicka

[blazing idol]

yeah, I think it can't fail due to being a birthsign spell

it's also dirt cheap :d

[tiny iris]

Yeah haha

I'll have an update out later tonight, i can give you the line of code to add if you want xd

[blazing idol]

nah

my main character already knows this spell

[amber dune]

Maybe you could add some of the unused spells, like God's Spark and Life Force, to the list of tomes?

[tiny iris]

Changelog v2.2

• Added Blessed Touch to Rare books to prevent it from being spawned (whoops)
• Added desaturated textures and icons as optional files
• Fixed BAIN (maybe?)

[tiny iris]

Yeah I plan on adding more spells that aren't usually available to the player as rare books but that's low on the priority list atm haha, although anyone could easily do it

[wary schooner]

Maybe you could use the magicka cost to scale the price of the spellbooks? At least for most of them

If I understood correctly, it is already what you do to determine spawn chances?

[white anvil]

Could be fun to make it a chance based system too, so rather than never being able to find books you can’t cast, you can find them but more powerful spells are rarer etc.

I have a patch that adds skill gating to whether spells can be learned (and an attempt at the rarity gating) can upload it here later if it’s interesting

[wary schooner]

What's the patch? If hyacinth is OK for you to share it here, I'll look at it 🙂

[white anvil]

It’s just a little lua file adjustment that changes one of the scripts slightly to block learning the spell based on the spells ‘tier’ and the players relevant skill - I can zip it up tonight

[vestal edge]

I'd download it right away.

[dark zephyr]

new spell tome color is very nice, thank you 🌟

but the TES5 book cover pictures take me out a little bit. Would it be possible to have an option for that too? sorry, I know how annoying that may sound

However, I love the book content texts

[blazing idol]

I think it's reasonable 🧐

[tiny iris]

The textures can be overridden with vanilla textures if you want, the mesh is the same as m/Text_Octavo_08.nif/. Not sure if using the same textures as vanilla would be good though since it’d be impossible to distinguish them at a glance

[dark zephyr]

makes it harder which is gooder

[dire narwhal]

Lol octavo

The interior looks awesome!

[white anvil]

Here's the patch.
With a little image of one of the flavour texts, there's one per spell tier and magic class.
(this one is for summon golden saint which is the highest tier of conjuration I think)

[vestal edge]

Is that done automatically? Or do new books have to be entered manually?

[white anvil]

I think it’s a combination (this is largely hacked together with AI after work). Some of them are autogenerated but not during gameplay.

I imagine it could be autogenerated in some manner if there was a good ‘tier’ heuristic I’d have to refresh my memory on how it was determined here

[tiny iris]

And after so, so much Todd this .esp finally works on Morrowind.exe

[tiny iris]

Changelog 2.5

• Completely rewrote (again...) every mwscript to teach spells, recompiled, tested and cleaned with tes3cmd. there is video proof this works in Morrowind.exe now!!!!!
• Improved documentation for openmw modders who want to create their own spell tomes
• Fixed the cut-off icon for Morrowind.exe
• Included higher quality icons for OpenMW since only openmw is capable of handling 64x64 icons apparently ...?
• Fixed the missing texture for the Mysticism spell tome in Morrowind.exe

[astral star]

is there a quick way for me to test if this mod is working correctly? Just started a new game and installed this mod for the first time. I am validating load order and testing before I get to far into this new run.

[astral star]

went to balmora book seller and looks like it is working great! Amazing mod!

[astral star]

Would Fresh Loot overwrite the effects of Spell Tomes?

[tiny iris]

No

[strange mist]

Really nice mod! Would it be possible that with Inventory Extender installed tome tooltips would also show spell effects? For those of us who had not memorised all the spells by name yet.