People are grateful and eager to read it!

It serves as a pretty good overview of the world, in addition to talking about the magic forms and where to find them, albeit from the author's distinctly elven viewpoint: dwarves and humans cut down trees and are therefore awful, goblins take slaves but use mushrooms for their woodlike-material needs and are therefore less awful, animalfolk aren't really people but are generally pretty inoffensive (though they sometimes also cut down trees, why is everyone who's not an elf so horrible). Rána's type of kobold is barely mentioned, but there are also desert kobolds, who are nearly as elusive but use magical traps, so they get a section; the author also speculates that they have a form that lets them detect things at a distance, which, if it's true, is unique among known spell forms.

All in all there are a couple dozen spell forms mentioned; the most interesting one, which the author was more or less able to confirm the existence of but only able to give vague detail about where to find, is the animal-and-person version of the elves' plant modification spell.

That is interesting. Possibly very unethical but still interesting. Quendi wouldn't be using it, obviously, that involves having children, but it does sound of interest. No one anywhere has healing?

If that's really the animal-and-person equivalent of the plant manipulation form, it does healing. And will work just fine on people who already exist - they'd have to actually get it and look at it to figure out the scope of what it can do in adults, but the plant one can do most of the things it does to seeds to grown plants.

It's still possibly very unethical. Hexes with that form: yowch.

Well, you can do unethical things with anything at all that's remotely useful. Where can that spell be found?

The book has maps! It's kind of out in the middle of nowhere; it's definitely in this one forest that has a bunch of really weird animals, but there aren't any cities or anything nearby, just a couple of little human towns.

Rána can work with that, though. The description isn't good enough for her to target it directly, but an afternoon's work with the help of someone with better eyes gets the job done anyway.

Then they will go through and osanwë-listen for mages.

Those sure are some weird animals. An unusual proportion of them are variations on the theme of 'large and aggressive'.

...okay, they'll make sure to send people who have teleport-deflection of threats.

Some of the creatures look like they might not be all that inconvenienced by finding themselves suddenly falling down a cliff, but they can all be teleported.

It's a big forest. As they get closer to the middle of it, the creatures get bigger and meaner and tougher, and are more often camouflaged or venomous or similarly dangerous above and beyond just being big and mean.

Well, they only need to get within ten miles of the center, how big is this forest?

Pretty big. And there aren't any paths bigger than a game trail, that's not helping anything.

Okay, what about just teleporting directly within ten miles of the center.

Teleportation spell targeting doesn't work that way.

It seems like it ought to be possible to make it work that way, given that it can target the forest at all. 

They keep heading inwards, anyway.

...it can't target the forest, that's why Rána had to spend several hours trying random forest locations to get it.

After a while the animals stop getting more dangerous; they're still very varied, and very bitey.

Gosh this is a big forest. It's almost like the mage they're looking for doesn't want to be found.

It can target 'forest' but not 'dangerous forest'?

And the size is very much to their advantage; it means they probably won't need to interact with the mages to get the spellform.

Yup, it has to do with how having that many trees in one place changes their surroundings, it's like how it's possible to target different kinds of rock.

Eventually they catch a glimpse of some stone buildings through the trees. They're still pretty far off; even with Quendi sight they probably would have missed them if they weren't paying such careful attention.

Can they hear thoughts?

Nope. Too far away.

They keep heading in that direction.

And after a little while they're close enough to hear thoughts. There are a couple dozen people living here, of a variety of species, mostly human. No-one is actively casting, but a couple of them are playing around with the spell form, trying to figure out how to accomplish this or that, which is enough to learn it from.

The form is very intricate; not quite as complex, or as pretty, as Rána's teleportation form, but closer to it than any of the other forms they've picked up.

Excellent.

They head home before being caught.

Rána shows up presently to get the form. Ooooh, she reports, after a few moments' trance. I'm going to have to take some time to figure out all the stuff this can do, but it's very promising. I can definitely do healing - better than Quendi; it'd be hard to give someone that much control, but I think I can do all the things I've seen you do and then some...