The book is bound in blue leather with metallic paint in the tooling that's worn out a bit over time. The patterns on it are just a bit fancy, with silver stars nestled in gold scrollwork. Inside the cover, the first page has little messages in a curved, swirling script in two differing styles of penmanship that one could guess they're words of love and encouragement from his parents.

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The early pages feature an assortment of notes all in the same script as before, but it's clear that they're written by a younger hand than the messages from his parents on the first page. You can see some spots where his pen sat on the page too long, others where the ink ran out mid-stroke, still trying to figure things out. Amidst the notes are little drawings, very childish looking ones at first, that are related to the spells and their effects, along with glyphs housed in different arrangements of geometrical shapes. Some are crossed out, others are circled and then redrawn to be more neat.

There are multiple pages devoted to Prestidigitation alone, because of its various effects. One page has notes with little drawings of steaming teacups, glasses with little snowflakes next to them, another with little sparks like tiny fireworks, another has a crude rendering of a hand with a little unicorn in it and some shiny lines radiating from it. All of the drawings have little notes written next to them.

Following these pages are the pages to another spell that has a lot of drawings of hands with trailing auras grabbing books off of tall shelves, a tiny round-faced Allumin below unable to reach them, pulling levers, acting as an extra hand to carry things - the list goes on.

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Another early spell in the book is covered with drawings of a long haired ferret that's a little round ball in one image and a loooooooong body in the next. There are hearts and little magic swirls drawn around the images of the animal. Find Familiar... Allumin doesn't think that one will work here.

The deeper in Loki goes, the more consistent and elegant the penmanship and drafting becomes, and the concepts illustrated also improve. Some also deviate from the more literal images to more esoteric or metaphorical ones. One spell has a page with different kinds of masks drawn all over it around the writing, and the opposite page has a drawing of a person partway through changing their appearance.

After a certain point, a different script begins to also appear alongside the previous one in his notes, though not with as much frequency. Around this point is also when the first spells for fighting also shows up, with streaks of fire that sometimes travel from one edge of a page all the way across to the opposite one, with writing arranged around it, and figures implied to be frozen in place.

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Further in, there is a spread with notes that feel not right compared to the pages before. The usual art is there - more detailed now, more refined - he drew it when he was 25 after all. On one side of the spread near a far upper corner is a little piece of paper with a portal open above it. A person is stepping through and half of their body is missing from the other side, and if Loki were to look to the opposite corner on the other page, there is another piece of paper with a portal and the rest of the person emerging through it.

There are notes in the swirling script, in the more harsh looking second one, but also a third kind of lettering appears on this page. The letters appear sort of between the two styles, but also not quite - there is no fluidity in the lines, they are harsh, perfectly straight, perfect angles, perfect parallels, with perfect circles here and there along its letters. It is too perfect. It is unnaturally so.

The bottom of the pages are splattered with black ink, and perhaps if one observed hard enough you could tell that one of the stains has indents and spacing in the paper that imply fingers, desperate to dig and pull closer something just almost out of reach.

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There are a couple of other spells further in that feature the same too-straight-and-circular script from before. One appears to be the short distance teleportation spell he mentioned before, the other shows a person standing over a black pit bound by shadows. These are the only other times it appears though, the rest of the spells are written with the first two alphabets.