Someone left the spelbook in the rain: Make Whole & the written word

[LazarX]

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Session 1: Writings are not part of the standard whole of the book, the spell book is restored to working condition, but the damaged pages are blank.

Session 2: As per guidelines from Sesson 1

Actually here's it in a nutshell

Make Whole is not an information retreival spell. It restores the working condition of one object. In all these cases the object is a book of some type. Writings are foreign markings applied to the object not an intrinsic part of it. Using Erase, spilling ink is not damage to be healed but an exterior alteration to be dealt with.

Make Whole is much like raise dead, if a significcant amount of material is missing it won't restore it any more than Raise Dead will supply missing limbs. In the case of Scenario 3 the missing pages would have to be in the immediate area to be restored.

[Kevin Andrew Murphy]

That makes sense. Treating the Make Whole like Raise Dead works, or for that matter like Regenerate. If someone has tattoos and you make their arm regrow, they don't get the tats back.

(Of course now we have a torn and restored thread problem with the topic, since for some reason it duplicated, and when I deleted the second thread, you'd already started replying, so hopefully these can be collated.)