The following are recipes for making inks. To use these inks, you will need a quill pen, which can be manufactured easily by snipping the end of a feather at an angle, and then splitting the pointy tip slightly to hold the ink. This will take a little bit of experimentation if you are unused to making your own quills, but once you get used to making them you will know immedtaely how to cut them quickly and easily, and even add distinctive touches.

As a side note, when making your own inks, you can use gum arabic to help thicken them as needed.

Herbal Inks

Red		Beet juice.
Red-Brown		Dragon's Blood resin. This is an extremely difficult ink to manufacture as it is extremely difficult to dissolve, but can be done in alcohol. Dragon's Blood will yield a very poor ink if you can make it.
Purple		Grape juice or pokeberries. (Warning: Pokeberries are very poisonous.
Yellow-Orange		Saffron.

Inks from the Greek Magical Papyri

Besa Ink		Blood of a Crow, Blood of a White Dove, Myrrh, Black Ink, Cinnabar, Mulberry Tree Sap, Rain Water, Wormwood, and Vetch.
Hermaic Ink		4 drams of Myrrh, 3 Figs, 7 Date Pits, 7 Small Dried Pinecones, 7 Piths of Wormwood, 7 Wings of the Hermaic Ibis, and Spring Water. Burn ingredients, and then mix with spring water and use to write.
Typhonian Ink		Red Poppy, Artichoke Juice, Acacia Seed, Red Typhonian Ocher, Asbestos, Quicklime, Wormwood, Gum Arabic, and Rain Water.