He can definitely do that, and other people can ask him permission for doing that sort of thing too.

For further languages? Makes sense.

Someone also might want to do a poetic translation, or make a movie.

.......he doesn't feel equipped to vet a movie for heresy but maybe that will change eventually.

Movies take a long time to plan and make anyway, so it's probably not worth worrying too much about.

If they say so. What's next?

So, it turns out they have some ink containing one of the rare metals found in the magic armor already, because it's used in an ink that glows under specific circumstances to make documents harder to counterfeit. They've printed up something with the same symbols as on his spell page but using that ink, and they'd like to know if it works.

"I'll have to drop Prestidigitation and then get a very solid night of sleep to try it."

"Well, if there's any issues with your room do please let us know."

"I think the room is fine but I don't in fact have the wizard skill of sleeping through loud noises so if there are any, it will be pushed back a day, for example."

"That makes sense."

In that case he can cast and then drop Prestidigitation. ...it takes him a couple of tries actually, he's usually very much trying to do the opposite.

That's fine.

It would be really nice if this worked, if it did work they could try all kinds of experiments without risking anything irreplaceable.

In the morning he thinks he slept acceptably and will try to prepare Prestidigitation from their copy.

He reports that it does not seem to be working after he's been at it for about forty-five minutes, but he should still be able to prep off the real page, if they want to watch him do that.

…sure.

Is he up for trying more versions tomorrow?

...if this is their priority, sure, he guesses?

It seems dubious to try training people on casting from a spell page when there's only one spell page that can't be replaced?

He has no quarrel with how they want to approach it, it's just sort of hard for him to share their enthusiasm about The Laundry Spell when they already have laundry arrangements, but if they don't want to schedule him on other stuff such that he shouldn't spend two hours a day on this every day he sleeps well he can do so indefinitely.

Chris can take another go at explaining why people want this, if Blai would like.

Sure.

"So, when we first discovered electricity, the stuff we use today to power our lights and computers and washing machines and so on, we didn't really know much about it. We knew that sometimes fish could hurt people with it, and that it could travel through materials like water, and that you could generate some by rubbing amber rods with fur or such. We speculated that touching electric fish might help patients with some diseases."

"And we could have stopped there. We did, for a while. But eventually, we got richer, and we had more time to fiddle around with weird things. We discovered that some things could hold electric charges, and exert a weak force on things around them, which still wasn't very useful. We figured out that some things conducted charges, too. We developed some primitive generation and storage machines, which were still just novelties."

"Eventually, Benjamin Franklin went and set up a storage device to be connected by a conductive wire to a key on a kite, had his son fly the kite as a storm approached, and saw sparks from the approaching storm electrified the storage device. After that, it seemed pretty clear that lightning and electricity were the same thing, and he developed the lightning rod, a tall piece of metal that attracts lightning more than a house does and conducts it safely to the ground."

"And we could have stopped there, too! We'd figured out what was going on with lightning and solved the problem, somewhat. But we didn't do that. We kept trying to figure out more about how it works and how we can use it. And now we have a lot of extremely useful stuff. And electricity very much isn't the only case of this."

"So when we see a strange force that acts on the world in ways we don't understand, we want to learn how to use it ourselves, because the last several times we did, it was a great idea."

"...that makes sense as far as it goes but many people have used this magic for a very long time and there seem to be some fairly robust limits to how it can be used without putting your wizards at sufficient risk of death to circle up, and even the ones who succeed at that generally rely on getting spell copies from other wizards rather than inventing all their own, which is, also, a high risk activity."

"We have the sort of people who will take some risk of serious illness or death for a chance at discovering new things. Plus, if we can get a lot of people Detect Magic it seems like it would help a lot with crafting, and we think your world might have neglected some possibilities there because of the higher cost of spellsilver. And I'm sure the government would love Comprehend Languages, which I think you said wizards also get?"

"They can, but even if I learned to write a scroll of it a wizard couldn't use it because mine would be divine and they would need an arcane one."