So I had this Idea right a bit ago and I'm not sure how to flesh it out.
We know that Giles library is possessed of strange and arcane tomes, books that are capable of great and terrible thing, one need only look at the book that captured Moloch the Corrupter, the one that caught on fire when words were recited from it, or any of the books coded by the Du Lac Cross. It's pretty clear that it's an Eldritch Library literally on top of the Mouth of Hell. So my thought is this, what strange and powerful tomes might exist within it?
Perhaps there's a book detailing how to put the Dead to rest and tells the tale of the 9 bright shiners, or maybe there's a Manual on magic that requires a powerful oath before it's knowledge is available. What would happen if one of the Scoobies picked up one of these books during a research session and DIDN'T put it down afterward?
During Season one they're still young enough for most of the oomph of the manual to help/work and the work of an Abhorsen cares not for the age of the Necromancer. SO my question is, what magic books might there be that the Scoobies might pick up, and who would pick up each book?
Willow with the Manual would head off a LOT of problems is my thought and I can see Xander devoting himself wholeheartedly to anything that lets him deal harshly with the Dead (though whether or not BtVS vampires count as Dead for the purposes of this discussion is something else that needs fleshing out).
We know that Giles library is possessed of strange and arcane tomes, books that are capable of great and terrible thing, one need only look at the book that captured Moloch the Corrupter, the one that caught on fire when words were recited from it, or any of the books coded by the Du Lac Cross. It's pretty clear that it's an Eldritch Library literally on top of the Mouth of Hell. So my thought is this, what strange and powerful tomes might exist within it?
Perhaps there's a book detailing how to put the Dead to rest and tells the tale of the 9 bright shiners, or maybe there's a Manual on magic that requires a powerful oath before it's knowledge is available. What would happen if one of the Scoobies picked up one of these books during a research session and DIDN'T put it down afterward?
During Season one they're still young enough for most of the oomph of the manual to help/work and the work of an Abhorsen cares not for the age of the Necromancer. SO my question is, what magic books might there be that the Scoobies might pick up, and who would pick up each book?
Willow with the Manual would head off a LOT of problems is my thought and I can see Xander devoting himself wholeheartedly to anything that lets him deal harshly with the Dead (though whether or not BtVS vampires count as Dead for the purposes of this discussion is something else that needs fleshing out).