Inscription

Inscription is the scribe's craft: copying spells you know onto blank scrolls, and binding the books every adventurer carries — spellbooks, runebooks and songbooks. On UO Sagas only the eight circles of Magery exist, so every scroll recipe is a Magery spell scroll. See the Crafting Overview for the general crafting model.

Tools and workplace

All you need is a scribe's pen on your person — no station. Pens are made by tinkers (see Tinkering) and wear out with use like all crafting tools.

What you need to scribe a scroll

Scribing a spell scroll has four requirements, checked every attempt:

1. The spell — it must be in a spellbook you are carrying. You cannot scribe a spell you don't own.
2. A blank scroll — one per attempt. Blank scrolls are sold by mage and scribe vendors and stack freely.
3. The spell's reagents — one of each reagent that spell uses when cast.
4. Mana — a fixed amount per circle (see below). Meditate up before long scribing sessions; high circles drain you fast.

A failed attempt ruins the scroll and consumes the materials.

Spell scrolls by circle

Each circle is one group in the menu, containing all eight of its spells. Success starts at 0% at the minimum skill and climbs to 100% at the maximum:

Scrolls have no quality roll — a scroll either succeeds or is ruined; there is no exceptional scroll.

Books

The book recipes need no reagents or mana, only blank scrolls (plus two scrolls for the runebook):

	Item	Skill	Materials
	Spellbook	50 – 80	25 blank scrolls
	Songbook	50 – 80	25 blank scrolls
	Runebook	45 – 95	8 blank scrolls + 1 Recall scroll + 1 Gate Travel scroll
	Scribe's Spellbook	110 – 120	64 blank scrolls — requires a learned recipe

Books can come out exceptional, though this is cosmetic. The Songbook is the bard's tome — see Barding and Songs. The Scribe's Spellbook is the profession's prestige item: it needs elder-scribe skill and a rare recipe drop.

Raising the cap to 120

Inscription reaches 120 via Crafting skill scrolls. Going past Grandmaster pays off directly:

• 7th and 8th circle scrolls only hit 100% success at 125 skill — at 100 skill you succeed half the time, at 120 you're at 90%. Every point matters for expensive high-circle scrolls.
• The Scribe's Spellbook (110–120) can only be attempted above Grandmaster.

Training path

You need the spells in your own spellbook first, so training Inscription usually goes hand in hand with building a mage. Watch your mana at the top end — 8th circle scrolls cost 50 mana per attempt, so high Intelligence and Meditation keep the sessions moving.

Skill Mastery

The Inscription Skill Mastery makes scribed scrolls stronger in your own hands: perks boost scroll damage and healing, give a chance to preserve a scroll when cast, and harden the scribe against magic.

What you can craft

Miscellaneous

	Item	Skill	Resources
	Runebook	45 – 95	8 × Blank Scrolls, 1 × Recall Scrolls, 1 × Gate Scrolls
	Spellbook	50 – 80	25 × Blank Scrolls
	Songbook	50 – 80	25 × Blank Scrolls
	Scribe's Spellbook	110 – 120	64 × Blank Scrolls

Town Quests for scribes

Related

• Town Quests — the Scribe's crafting quests
• Crafting Overview — the shared crafting rules
• Magery — the spells behind the scrolls
• Skill Scrolls — raising the cap past 100
• Inscription Mastery — the Inscription mastery perks
• Skill Masteries — how the mastery system works