Forum:Question about prayer and crowning

Hi, well lets see if this forum is any better than the spamflooded newsgroup.

I'm playing on NAO. My elf-wizard just prayed at a co-aligned alter. He got a spellbook. But it wasn't finger of death it was cause fear. This character is has not been crowned.

Now I thought the spellbook gift only occurred after crowning (and required the same high luck/alignment/etc). Have I just misunderstood how it works? Regardless what happened here?

Thanks