new Cypher ritual: Read Object

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* *Sky/Air (2 Intellect points).* You or a creature you touch can fly short distances for ten minutes. You must land at
the end of your movement, or otherwise fall. Action.
## Rituals
### Read Object
Bestows information about an object's history. The object must be handled by the caster inside a circle traced in silver
powder, who reads any impressions left upon it, obtaining a piece of information occasionally over the duration of the
ritual's effects. The nature of the object, including its magical auras, the strength of the creatures who handled it,
its historical significance, and so on, may all affect the level of the ritual and the duration necessary to concentrate
on the object after the ritual is cast. The caster knows when there is no further information to gleam from the object,
and the spell ends at this point if not interrupted prematurely. The ritual may succeed only for the caster to learn
that the object has no information to yield, for whatever reason.
Examples of information that can be obtained via this ritual include the object's name (if it has one), an image of the
last creature to handle the object, an image of the last moments an object was last used, knowledge of the item's
historical significance, if any, and so on.
* **Level:** The level of the effect or significance of the object
* **Time:** One minute per level of preparation, one minute per level of performance
* **Roles:** Creating magic circles, tracing runes in silver powder, lighting candles
* **Side Effects:** False information, mental strain, the object's owner or creator, or an adversary, scrys upon the
caster
* **Reagents:** The object, silver powder, candles
* **Pool:** Intellect
* **Other Assets:** Identifying magical auras, historical/historical/etc. knowledge