If the Wizard Level arrived squeaky clean simply by accelerating his progression, then yes, it would arrive mostly blank, like any L1 Wizard. However, he is in "start of day" condition so he technically is prepared to learn a Spell or two…
… and in fact to Throisar’s surprise he finds the Spells already in his memory.
Then Throisar recalls something that seemed like a vision just before awakening, but the truth of it has just been proved … a vision of an enormous cavern, the ceiling disappearing up into uncharted reaches above. The only light is that of a fire burning in a forge, and a flat rectangular object being hammered on a huge anvil, sparks flying.
The anvil grabs his attention: it seems to be made of adamantine, shot through with veins of deep emerald that flash in the ultraviolet whenever the hammer drops. Then he notices the smith, a gigantic male dwarf, over 6 feet tall, with a barrel chest and a beard of sculpted stone. The dwarf's skin is the same earthen brown as the rock around him, and his eyes are the deep silver of mithril.
The smith says nothing, instead continuing to hammer. Those silver eyes move to Throisar where he stands 20 yards away, and suddenly he realizes -- no, he knows, as if he has always known, that hammering away with all one's strength is not, cannot be enough to finish the job.
A hammer is a tool of power, capable of delivering tremendous force, of shaping and molding to the will of the smith. However, it is the hand holding the hammer, the subtle shifts of position and momentum, which determine what the final form will be.
The eyes, liquid pools of mithril, do not leave Throisar as the dwarf stops hammering. He stands like a statue, no heaving chest or quivering arms to betray the effort that has just ceased. The smith takes the object from the anvil and blows on it, cooling the sparks. He hands it to Throisar; it is a book full of pages – Throisar recognizes it; it’s his Spell Book, the one he had acquired some time ago.
The Spell Book is open to new pages that had not been there before, and new Spells are written there that had not been there before.
As the Dwarf locks eyes with Throisar, Spells from the book are burned into his memory, the nastiest, most useful Spells Throisar could possibly know right at this moment, from the book’s previous contents and the new pages the Dwarf has added.
Throisar knows with certainty that this reforged Spell Book is now indestructible and that the new Spells on these particular pages can never be Erased.
The Dwarf’s gaze bores into him deeper, deeper, as if probing for his heart’s desire, and then Throisar feels the connection to a Familiar forged within him, its mind open to his, and full knowledge of it within him, and of him within it, as if they had always known. Then Throisar awakes, with the Familiar – now very familiar – stapled to the wall right next to him.
So pick your Spells with full knowledge of the situation at hand, whichever ones from any D&D resource that seem like the Spells that would help you deal with the situation best. And they are permanently inscribed in your Spell Book.
An Imp is next to you, if that’s your heart’s desire; however, it could also be a creature of Earth that is not on the usual lists – a Xorn, for example, which could be very useful in certain situations, or any creature that could be obtained from the
Summon Divine Familiar spell.
The relationship forged between you and the Familiar is stronger than usual. One of its features: ALL your Levels count for ALL purposes in determining the Familiar’s abilities and powers, not just your Wizard Levels – including the ones where RAW already say to count all Levels, and also the ones where RAW say to only count your Wizard levels – that restriction has been overridden.
Count this as a Bonus Feat more or less equivalent to Improved Familiar – mostly, more: Divinely Improved Familiar.
This Familiar is treated both as an Improved Familiar and as a Divine Familiar. Where the rules differ for the two types, such as for the Familiar’s abilities or the relationship between you and the Familiar, the best alternative applies, or both apply simultaneously, whichever is better. It counts as both a Familiar and a Divine Familiar; you cannot have both this Familiar and another Familiar of either type; you can only have this Familiar.
For simplicity, the Familiar has the same INIT as Throisar, at least for this battle.
When thinking about your choices for a Familiar, I’m letting you know in advance now that Epic rules will apply to the Familiar, when we get there.
EDITED here, to clarify, and anticipate some questions:
Q: What does “from any D&D resource” mean? A. In choosing the Spells you received in your Spell Book and memory, you can choose Spells of the appropriate Levels from *any* list at all, not just WIS/SOR. You can choose Spells that already are WIS/SOR of course, if you’d rather stick to that, but you don’t have to.
Q. If you pick Spells that aren’t WIS/SOR, does that mean you can cast, say, Cleric spells? A. If they aren’t, then you will find that the versions in your Spell Book have been transcribed into an Arcane power source (instead of, for example, a Divine power source) and count as WIS/SOR Arcane versions that otherwise work just like their Cleric/Paladin, Bard, or whatever, counterpart, as much as possible – and there’s a little more to it that I’ll get into if you decide to go in this direction.
Q. How many Spells? A. However many you can memorize today, including bonus spells – all of them can be new ones you didn’t have before.
Q. What if you elect to memorize the same Spell twice, or a Spell you already had; does that reduce the number of new Spells in your Spell Book? A. He’s not going to get cheap on you and go there. You get the full complement of especially nasty, new Spells hammered into your Spell Book equal to the number you can memorize today, whether you choose to use them or not – your choice.
