Spent 6 downtime days to read the Manual of Clear Thoughts.

purchase scroll of Steel Wind Strike (5th level), healing potion

Copied spells into Spellbook: Detect Magic, Unseen Servant, Tenser's Floating Disk
Spent 150g in transcription, and 1 downtime day.

Copied Max's Earthen Grasp to Spellbook

While at The Yawning Portal to buy and sell spellbooks with a Chultan dealer, I met Danifae Melarn, a grenadier of Bregan D'arthe. She bartered my ancient Zhentarim shield for a staff she claimed to have found in the pincers of a human archmage who had purportedly been warped into an insectoid aberration by the Far Realm. It's actually plausible as the provenances of magic items go, and it does seem to be very powerful.
I will throughouly study the staff to make sure it has no lingering traces of the Far Realm tied to it.

19g starting gold; -50gp diamond (material component)

Fai Chen's Faire: Traded for +1 Wand of War Mage. Bought Scroll of Unseen Servant

FEATURE: Retainers -> Safe Haven, per season 8

With a sincere oath to rejoin the legion with new magics and that someday they will have places of honor within his retinue again, Anorak Fireweaver dismisses his retainers, Beedo, Gum-gum, and his bodyguard Klarz. They are given supplies and messages for those still in the Iron Horde, then sent back home.

The Lord's Alliance better make good on their promises.

Bought Scroll of Maximilian's Earthen Grasp

Bought spell scroll of Sickening Radiance (4th lvl)

Scroll Dragon’s Breath

Copied scrolls of Haste, Hypnotic Pattern, Slow, Greater Invisibility, and Sickening Radience (Evocation, XGE from Fai Chen).
Spent 750g in transcription costs and 15 hours = 2 days.

Copying spells from the brown leather spellbook to my spellbooks, adding feather fall, detect thoughts, locate object, clairvoyance, fly, arcane eye, ice storm, stoneskin, Rary's telepathic bond, scrying, mass suggestion, true seeing, delayed blast fireball, teleport
Copied the scroll of Steel Wind Strike

Spent 2,925g in transcription costs and 117 hours = 14.6 downtime days.

While visiting the arcane library of the Von Finklestein family, Anorak copied many spells into his spellbooks, including Disguise self, Identify, Jump, Longstrider, Tasha's hideous laughter, Alter self, Arcane lock, Blindness/deafness, Blur, Darkness, Darkvision, Enlarge/Reduce, Knock, Melf's Acid Arrow, Misty Step, See invisibility, Blink, Fear, Hypnotic pattern, Leomund's tiny hut, Phantom Steed, Protection from Energy, Vampiric Touch, Water breathing

Spent 2,400 gold in transcription costs over the 10 days.
Purchased an additional spellbook for all these spells. -50g

Copied Catapult, Erupting Earth, and Tidal Wave into spellbooks. Spent 350gp on ink and materials for transcription.

Copied Comprehend Languages, Protection from Evil and Good, Dragon's Breath, Tongues, and Counterspell into my spellbooks. Spent 600gp in transcription costs and 2 days.

Translating the scrolls created by the mad necromancer Marzellus Marshward and copying them into my spellbooks. One of these is an evocation spell and was quite simple to decipher.
Copied the scrolls of Contingency, Mislead, and Circle of Death to my spellbooks.

Spent 700g in transcription costs and 28 hours = 3.5 downtime days.
Purchased fourth spellbook. -50g

1 common scroll of PHB spell (Tenser's Floating Disk)

Spent 6 downtime days to read the Manual of Clear Thoughts.

purchase scroll of Steel Wind Strike (5th level), healing potion

Copied spells into Spellbook: Detect Magic, Unseen Servant, Tenser's Floating Disk
Spent 150g in transcription, and 1 downtime day.

Copied Max's Earthen Grasp to Spellbook

While at The Yawning Portal to buy and sell spellbooks with a Chultan dealer, I met Danifae Melarn, a grenadier of Bregan D'arthe. She bartered my ancient Zhentarim shield for a staff she claimed to have found in the pincers of a human archmage who had purportedly been warped into an insectoid aberration by the Far Realm. It's actually plausible as the provenances of magic items go, and it does seem to be very powerful.
I will throughouly study the staff to make sure it has no lingering traces of the Far Realm tied to it.

19g starting gold; -50gp diamond (material component)

Fai Chen's Faire: Traded for +1 Wand of War Mage. Bought Scroll of Unseen Servant

FEATURE: Retainers -> Safe Haven, per season 8

With a sincere oath to rejoin the legion with new magics and that someday they will have places of honor within his retinue again, Anorak Fireweaver dismisses his retainers, Beedo, Gum-gum, and his bodyguard Klarz. They are given supplies and messages for those still in the Iron Horde, then sent back home.

The Lord's Alliance better make good on their promises.

Bought Scroll of Maximilian's Earthen Grasp

Bought spell scroll of Sickening Radiance (4th lvl)

Scroll Dragon’s Breath

Copied scrolls of Haste, Hypnotic Pattern, Slow, Greater Invisibility, and Sickening Radience (Evocation, XGE from Fai Chen).
Spent 750g in transcription costs and 15 hours = 2 days.

Copying spells from the brown leather spellbook to my spellbooks, adding feather fall, detect thoughts, locate object, clairvoyance, fly, arcane eye, ice storm, stoneskin, Rary's telepathic bond, scrying, mass suggestion, true seeing, delayed blast fireball, teleport
Copied the scroll of Steel Wind Strike

Spent 2,925g in transcription costs and 117 hours = 14.6 downtime days.

While visiting the arcane library of the Von Finklestein family, Anorak copied many spells into his spellbooks, including Disguise self, Identify, Jump, Longstrider, Tasha's hideous laughter, Alter self, Arcane lock, Blindness/deafness, Blur, Darkness, Darkvision, Enlarge/Reduce, Knock, Melf's Acid Arrow, Misty Step, See invisibility, Blink, Fear, Hypnotic pattern, Leomund's tiny hut, Phantom Steed, Protection from Energy, Vampiric Touch, Water breathing

Spent 2,400 gold in transcription costs over the 10 days.
Purchased an additional spellbook for all these spells. -50g

Copied Catapult, Erupting Earth, and Tidal Wave into spellbooks. Spent 350gp on ink and materials for transcription.

Copied Comprehend Languages, Protection from Evil and Good, Dragon's Breath, Tongues, and Counterspell into my spellbooks. Spent 600gp in transcription costs and 2 days.

Translating the scrolls created by the mad necromancer Marzellus Marshward and copying them into my spellbooks. One of these is an evocation spell and was quite simple to decipher.
Copied the scrolls of Contingency, Mislead, and Circle of Death to my spellbooks.

Spent 700g in transcription costs and 28 hours = 3.5 downtime days.
Purchased fourth spellbook. -50g

1 common scroll of PHB spell (Tenser's Floating Disk)