Resolved Inscriber's Tome and Potency

[Lorelei Beinae]

So we have a bit of a question.

Inscriber's Tome reads like this:
Inscriber’s Tome
Skill Requirement: Inscription 15
Duration: 10 times ever
Ingredients: 10 Ink, 10 Vellum
Target: Item <book, scroll, tablet, etc.>
A character with the Inscription skill can expend an item charge to cast an Evocation Bolt 20 as if from a scroll, using the book as the physrep and choosing the effect from Flame, Ice, Lightning, Stone, or Magic at time of casting.

Potency (the ritual) states thus: The Potency Ritual allows the wielder to, once per Logistics period, add 5 points of the Target Elemental force with any numeric call they make from casting a spell in memory or from a Battle Magic scroll for ten minutes.

Since the tome is cast 'as if from a scroll', wouldn't it be able to get the benefits from the Potency?

 

[tieran]

"As if from a scroll" in the Inscriber's Tome description is to indicate that the physical requirements of using IT are the same as that of using a scroll.

Namely, you must hold the IT before you, touch a packet to it, state the verbal, and then touch cast or throw the packet at your target. You must have enough light to read the IT, and the entirety of the IT must be visible.

The Inscriber's Tome is not a Battle Magic Scroll, and would not benefit from an active Potency.