Arcane Studies

• []Simple, fast, lightweight, and compatible with everything

  []Spend your downtime learning new spells, writing spell tomes, or enscribing scrolls

  []You'll need rolls of parchment, inkwells, and quills, which are all consumed at different rates

  []Scrolls also require filled petty soul gems to create

[]Downtime is the time that passes when you used the wait menu to wait for one or more hours

• []Sleeping is not downtime

[]No need for additional plugins to register spells, it will find every spell tome you have installed, no matter which mod it came from, and use that to identify playable spells and scrolls. Everything is automatic, with no need for compatibility mods or manual classification of spells.

Gameplay

There is a book called "Arcane Studies Primer" added to the world in various easy-to-find places. There's one laying near the dead mage in Helgen Keep, one on the floor of the abandoned prison cell for Alternate Start players (if you install the optional file), one in Arcadia's Cauldron next to the alchemy table, etc.

Reading the "Arcane Studies Primer" scans through all of your installed books and scrolls and then gives you four new lesser powers: "Arcane Studies", "Write Tome", "Enscribe Scroll", and "Pause Studies". Scanning and indexing your spells may take a few minutes, if you have a lot of spells installed. You can go ahead and keep playing while it works.

When you activate Arcane Studies, Write Tome, or Enscribe Scroll, your equipped spell is selected for studying, writing, or enscribing respectively. If you had different spells in both hands, the spell in your left hand is preferred. If you didn't have a spell in either hand when you activated the power then you resume using the same spell you used for that activity previously.

From then on, until you activate a different one of the four powers, when you wait (but not when you sleep) the hours are spent studying the selected spell to learn similar spells, writing tomes of the selected spell, or making scrolls of the selected spell.

You can also study scrolls. Just equip a scroll instead of a spell and activate Arcane Studies. The scroll will be removed from your inventory, but the scroll's spell will be one of the first ones you learn in your subsequent studies (not necessarily the very first) and once you know the spell you can create scrolls or tomes for it.

There are a couple of necessary restrictions on scrolls: You can only make a scroll for a spell if there is a scroll version of it in the game or one of your installed mods, and you can only use a scroll for study if there is a matching spell tome in the game or in one of your installed mods.

When enscribing scrolls or writing tomes, if you switch to usi