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  Tome of Tomes
  Volume Five
  Author: Joseph Browning
  Welcome all to Tome of Tomes, Volume 5!  Fueled by my lovely 
  Patreons, this short work provides 100 more tomes for your gaming 
  pleasure; ranging from the magical to the mundane, from the 
  common to the unique. Never again will you be at a loss to describe 
  that recently found libram!
  If you’d like to become a Patreon for more Tome of Tomes books, drop 
  by my campaign at https://www.patreon.com/josephbrowning. I’m 
  putting up 16 new tomes a month.
  DESCRIBING THE TOMES
  Each book is classified in several ways. Every book has a gold piece 
  value as well as information on what field of study the book falls 
  under for a sage’s purpose. In addition, there are other descriptors 
  used, and the complete list below describes them in more detail.
  Author: The name of the author if known. Sometimes the author may 
  be a group of individuals, such as the Monks of Merrin.
  Race: If the author is an individual or of a group that contains only 
  one race, the race of the author is listed.
  Dimensions: This is given in inches in the following order: width, height, 
  depth. 
  Weight: The weight of the tome in lbs.
  Materials: The materials typically used in the construction of the 
  tome if the work is unique. For non-unique works, the material 
  listed should be considered the most commonly found version 
  of the work. 
  Rarity: A relative value of the rarity of the tome, ranging from 
  common, uncommon, rare, very rare, and unique. It should be 
  noted that, under normal circumstances, rarity has little to do 
  with value.
  Fields of Study: All the fields of study within the scope of the work.
  Special Knowledge Categories: Which (if any) special categories in 
  which the work belongs.
  Value: The value of the tome to a buyer with interest in such matters. 
  The value here assumes a book in good condition - one that 
  is fully readable and without overt blemishes. Prices should be 
  altered based upon differences in condition from this baseline.
  THE NEXT ONE HUNDRED TOMES
  A Gnomish Primer
  Author:  Jacinth Infal
  Race: Half-elf
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Languages
  Value: 45 gp
  The most common of Infal’s language primers, A Gnomish Primer 
  follows the same pattern as her other works, but as this was the last of 
  the series, she had honed her processes down to a fine art, providing 
  the student of A Gnomish Primer an easier learning experience. 4 
  months of studying this primer provides a basic competency in 
  Gnomish providing the student has at least a 9 Intelligence.
  A Portable Library
  Dimensions: 16x4x1
  Weight: 8 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment 
  Value: 12,500 gp
  Experience Point Value: 2,500
  This magical book contains a non-dimensional space in which books, 
  scrolls, maps or any other similar materials can be stored. A Portable 
  Library can hold up to 500 lbs. of book or book-like materials. It is 
  extremely durable, making any saves at 4 on the roll.
  An Elvish Primer
  Author:  Jacinth Infal
  Race: Half-elf
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Languages
  Value: 75 gp
  During her middle years, Infal produced a series of language primers, 
  designed for the beginning student. Starting with the script and 
  sounds of the language, she progresses from the simplest of Elvish-
  language concepts to the more advanced. 5 months of studying this 
  primer gives a basic competency in Elvish providing the student has 
  at least a 10 Intelligence.
  An Orc Demographic
  Author: Rottacks Auldfarren
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humanoids & giant-kind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Demography
  Value: 50 gp
  Another fine work by Auldfarren, An Orc Demographic is the first 
  comprehensive demographics study of orcs in the less civilized 
  temperate lands, Rottacks Auldfarren studied birth and death rates, 
  
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  infant mortalities, ethnicities, and life expectancies. Like his previous 
  book, A Human Demographic, this work filled with detailed, in-depth 
  and generally tedious information, and it is rarely read from cover to 
  cover. Thankfully for the many who have utilized the work, it possesses 
  an excellent index allowing a reader to quickly
  Ancient Kemetian Tombs
  Author: Liart Spilgie
  Race: Elf
  Dimensions: 16x16x3
  Weight: 15 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Humankind, physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: History, architecture & engineering
  Value: 950 gp
  This guide to all the known tombs of Ancient Kemet (as of 100 years 
  ago) is a lavishly illuminated guide to over 100 major tombs. It is also 
  an invaluable to potential tomb raiders. Although Spilgie’s intent was 
  only historical accuracy, he accidentally produced the best work 
  regarding the non-magical and magical protections commonly 
  used in Kemetian tombs. This information has proven invaluable in 
  the past decade, and tombs previously unraided are now being 
  looted at a prodigious speed.
  Armar: A History
  Author: Frono Hurmphra
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 25 gp
  Legendary city of the Cinnamon Coast, Armar ruled a combine of 
  city-states for more than 300 years. This tome details the rise of Armar 
  at the hand of the red-bearded pirate Melmoth. How he recklessly 
  attacked the fleets of the other city states along the Cinnamon 
  Coast and tore unlikely victories out of certain defeats. It then moves 
  into the middle years where stability and trade flourished, but the 
  history ends with the rise of the sea-devils, the sahuagin that rose from 
  the waters and laid waste to the entire area.
  Atlas of Het
  Author: Drevi Kapoor
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 2lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Physical universe
  Special 
  Knowledge 
  Categories: 
  Geography, 
  topography 
  & 
  cartography
  Value: 950 gp
  A work long thought lost, Atlas of Het is a detailed study of the 
  700-mile-long peninsula that experiences 8 months of winter and a 
  continuous line of permafrost that encircles the mountainous spine 
  of the peninsula. Atlas of Het contains over a dozen highly-detailed 
  maps of the peninsula, including the only map that accurately 
  displays the entire area. Two copies of Atlas of Het have recently 
  went up for sale in Ranste, leading scholars to believe other copies 
  may be available.
  Bamghuti Choral Music
  Author: Olivar Kizar
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 12x12x1
  Weight: 6 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & Music
  Value: 80 gp
  Kizar translates more than three dozen of the polyphonic chorals of 
  the Bamghuti into simplified notation. Included with each translation 
  is a small libretto explaining the meaning and significance of each 
  work for readers lacking knowledge of the Bahmghuti religion. A small 
  appendix includes notes regarding some of the stranger Bamghuti 
  percussion instruments used during the chorals.
  Barding: Art and Manufacture
  Author: Cormora Foramint
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 12x10x1.5
  Weight: 20 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, brassboard, vellum, brass clasps and lock
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Humankind, physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music, architecture & 
  engineering
  Value: 355 gp
  This tome takes the reader all the way from forging to plate and 
  thoroughly covers the subject of barding, excepting that there is 
  no information on hardened leather varieties. This leads scholars to 
  believe that the tome hails from one of the Inner Sea kingdoms, as 
  only they have the high-quality barding described within coupled 
  with an absence of leather.
  Battles of Legion XI
  Author: Villus Tarqa
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 30 gp
  Legion XI, the Bulls, is the most-lauded of all the legions of Hefestia. 
  This tome by Tarqa contains a concise history of their entire 500 
  year history, from origination during the Civil Wars, to their eventual 
  disbandment under the conquering Gortha Hoard. Most of the work 
  focuses on the “13 Legendary Battles” which made Legion XI so 
  lastingly famous.
  Breadmaking in Derust
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  
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  Dimensions: 8x10x1
  Weight: 3 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music
  Value: 125 gp
  Known for its rolling fields of grain, it’s unsurprising that breakmaking 
  is a high art in Derust. This tome compiles over 100 different types 
  of bread, both savory and sweet, and provides instructions for their 
  preparation. Although it appears the recipes are mostly-correct, 
  each has been slightly changed from how actually prepared, 
  bringing frustration to the reader attempting to duplicate what they 
  once ate in Derust.
  Bugbear: A Grammar
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Unknown
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 2 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Humanoids & giant-kind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Languages
  Value: 50 gp
  This brief work lays out the fundamental grammar rules of Bugbear in 
  8 chapters. A small dictionary is included in the back, but less than 
  1,000 words are included, making this text far from as useful as it 
  could be. After three months of intense study, a student can haltingly 
  speak Bugbear, but getting beyond that level of ability requires some 
  other source of knowledge.
  Bumbleboots and Other Poems
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x5x1
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Arts & music
  Value: 30 gp
  This brief work contain a dozen long poems, the highlight being 
  Bumbleboots, a long narrative poem concerning a pair of magical 
  boots that provide unearthly grace and agility until they tire of their 
  wearer and then provide clumsiness in equal strength. Such usually 
  results in the death of their current owner and then they move 
  onwards to another. The other poems are of only passing merit.
  Cave Formations
  Author: Dugal Cavewalker’s
  Race: Dwarf
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 4 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, stoneboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Geology & minerology
  Value: 25 gp
  The authoritative work on speleothems and speleogens, Cave 
  Formations is the text that made Cavewalker’s fortune. The illustrated 
  text looks closely at over 100 different cave formations, and mentions 
  several dozen more in passing. Originally only in the dwarven 
  language, Dugal’s many friendships resulted in the translation of 
  the text into multiple languages. More copies of Cave Formations 
  have been produced in Common in the past 30 years than all 
  other languages combined: it is now the most common version of 
  Cavewalker’s  tome.
  Cavemen of the Great Wincossa Canyon
  Author: Running Feather
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x8x3
  Weight: 6lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humanoids & giant-kind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History, law & customs
  Value: 45 gp
  The Great Wincossa Canyon stretches for hundreds of miles along 
  the Armogado River. In places deeper than a mile, many sub-
  canyons are effectively walled off from surface traffic and within are 
  found several populations of cavemen. These cavemen live a simple 
  life of hunting and gathering, communicating with each other via 
  underground passageways. They are remarkably hostile, and their 
  territory has yet to be peaceably entered.
  Cavewalker’s Guide to Wild Caverns
  Cave Formations
  Author: Dugal Cavewalker’s
  Race: Dwarf
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 4 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, stoneboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Geology & minerology
  Value: 75 gp
  After the success of Cave Formations, Cavewalker decided to create 
  a practical guide to spelunking in wild caverns: the term he uses to 
  describe underground area that have never been inhabited by 
  intelligent life. An eminently practical tome, readers of Cavewalker’s 
  Guide to Wild Caverns can master the techniques after only a 
  month’s intensive practice ensuring them save passage through the 
  wild caverns beneath the earth.
  Cavora Ipish 
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Elf
  Dimensions: 14x12x1.5
  Weight: 25 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, brassboard, vellum, brass clasps and lock
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Supernatural & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Planes (astral, elemental & ethereal)
  Value: 475 gp
  This ancient tome is an atlas to over one thousand square miles of 
  Cavora Ipish, one of the many grand caverns found on the Elemental 
  Plane of Earth. When written, it was a precise work of dramatic scope 
  
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  and accuracy, but Cavora Ipish collapsed sometime in the past 
  decade, rendering all of this information out of date and worthless. 
  Only the most-well-versed in the Elemental Plane of Earth are aware 
  of this collapse, so the book remains in high demand from semi-
  scholarly sources.
  Centipedes of the Armaxot Peninsula
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 16x16x1
  Weight: 7 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Fauna, supernatural & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Insects, medicine
  Value: 375 gp
  The mountainous jungle covering the Armaxot Peninsula is home to 
  over twenty different types of centipedes, all of which are covered in 
  this excellent, illustrated tome.  Twenty are normal sized centipedes, 
  but four are of the giant size, and the information contained within 
  regarding their life cycle and habits has led to Centipedes of the 
  Armaxot Peninsula being the go-to book for centipede poison 
  hunters. Access to this text allows anyone with an Intelligence of 15 
  or greater to prepare poisons (assuming access to the centipedes, of 
  course) as if he was an assassin with such training.
  Children of the Lava
  Author: Deredha
  Race: Half-elf
  Dimensions: 6x6x1
  Weight: 4 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Humanoids & giantkind, physical universe, supernatural 
  & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Biology, history, law & customs, 
  chemistry, dweomercraeft
  Value: 225 gp
  This small tome delves into the strange creatures known as lava 
  children. Perpetually grinning and indifferent to metal, lava children 
  are found only in a few places in the world, and Deredha traveled 
  to each of these locations to chronicle their existence. Although 
  interesting as a curio, Children of the Lava gathers scholarly 
  interest due an appendix introduced many years after the text was 
  completed. The appendix details various uses of lava children blood 
  in alchemy and potion making.
  Cloaks through the Ages
  Author: Arlogh Kinshiargh
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 16x16x2
  Weight: 10 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind, demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music
  Value: 25 gp
  This visual dictionary provides illustrations for the history of the 
  common cloak over the past 300 years. Covering the entire western 
  world, over 75 different types of cloaks are illustrated, along with 
  common sub-types and particular local varieties. The legendarily-
  shy Kinshiargh wrote this tome after another one of his experiments 
  resulted in his being teleported more than 1,000 miles away from 
  his home, yet again. The knowledge within this tome provided him 
  a precise way to identifying where he’d landed, without having to 
  interact with the locals. 
  Columns
  Author: Purfan of Istarum
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 16x16x2
  Weight: 10 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Architecture & engineering
  Value: 50 gp
  This odd work on architecture produced by the doomed Purfan 
  of Istarum deals solely with the column. It starts with a thorough 
  breakdown of the physical structures of columns, and the majority of 
  the text is concerned with ornamentation. Particular attention is paid 
  to the 25 different types of “classical” columns of the ancient world. 
  Why the Purfan would have produced such a work is a mystery and 
  some scholars say the author is misattributed.
  Demons and Devils
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 2lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Supernatural & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Planes (outer)
  Value: 70 gp
  This ancient tome covers the types and abilities of the more common 
  demons and devils, naming hundreds of lesser fiends. In the more 
  than 1,000 years since it was written Demons and Devils has been 
  translated into dozens of different languages and its age has 
  rendered most of its information out-of-date. For example, perhaps 
  only a handful of named fiends in this tome still exist.
  Dialects of the Ilhusian Peninsula
  Author:  Jacinth Infal
  Race: Half-elf
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Languages
  Value: 45 gp
  Few places in the western world have as storied a history as the long 
  and narrow Ilhusian Peninsula, birthplace of the Hefestian Empire. This 
  long history has united the peninsula in language, but has also edged 
  out certain communities, creating a hotbed of dialectial differences 
  in the Ilhus language. This text delves into the language and explores 
  the five main dialects and twelve lesser dialects. Dialects of the 
  
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  Ilhusian Peninsula is particularly notable for being the first of Infal’s 
  many linguistic works.
  Domma’s Dances
  Author: Domma Astrid
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 16x16x3
  Weight: 15 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music
  Value: 150 gp
  This large text is almost exclusively composed of illustrated dances 
  of the legendary Domma Astid, Queen of the High Armot Dance. 
  Created in her last years, Domma’s Dances is the only visual 
  recording of High Armot Dance, and it is considered the standard 
  regarding acceptable movements and motions. The modern High 
  Armot Dancers of today are still compared to Domma’s drawings, 
  and discrepancies or innovations are frowned upon
  Doom of Domrie
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x5x2
  Weight: 2 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music
  Value: 35 gp
  This riotous tale moves from city to city following the ill-fated band 
  of entertainers known as Domrie’s Traveling Extravaganza. Every 
  possible offense happens to them along the way until eventually only 
  one original member of the troupe remains. The Doom of Domrie is 
  commonly performed by travelling entertainment troupes and uses 
  “special effects” to make each comedic death more spectacular 
  than the last
  Down and Out in Ranste
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x5x1
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music
  Value: 15 gp
  The great port-city of Ranste is the backdrop in this story of the rise, 
  fall, and re-rise of the fictional Sir Sranga Whitelock. The unknown 
  author is intimately familiar with the city, and it effectively becomes 
  the co-protagonist of the story. Sages have long tried to discover the 
  author, and most now believe Down and Out in Ranste was written 
  by a youthful Whilla Redmane who would eventually rise to Grand 
  Magican at Durmofora’s Court. Descendants of Redmane vigorously 
  deny such claims, unwilling to be associated with the saucy story. 
  Down the Hatch!
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Dwarf
  Dimensions: 6x6x1
  Weight: 3 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, stoneboard, parchment
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind, physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: History, chemistry
  Value: 65 gp
  This dwarven work concerns itself with the making, and consuming, 
  of fine dwarven whiskey. Recipes for the six common types of 
  dwarven whiskies are included along with their distilling instructions. 
  It’s rumored that the six recipes are the precise recipes of the “Big 
  Six” dwarven stills and that the unknown author somehow stole the 
  information. The “Big Six” vehemently deny such, however.
  Down the Shadowvein
  Author: Darion Fiordera
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x6x1
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Topgraphy & cartography
  Value: 35 gp
  This small tome is the diary of Darion Fiordera, the now-famous 
  bard and new Duke of Offersham. It details his first long delve into 
  the underdeeps along the river known as Shadowvein. Fiodera 
  followed the dark river all the way from the caverns filled with pod-
  men created by an evil Shroom-man all the way to the mouth of the 
  river and the metal disc on a small island in the great water the river 
  emptied into. How much of the diary is truth or fiction sages debate, 
  but the new Duke claims it is all as he experienced it.
  Dwarven Drinking Songs
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x5x1
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music
  Value: 15 gp
  This ancient collection of dwarven drinking songs still remains popular 
  today. First collected in Deronian period of the Hefestian Empire, 
  Dwarven Drinking Songs is a testament to the solidity of the dwarvish 
  soul, for only a few words or stanzas have changed in their table 
  songs over centuries. 85 different songs are compiled in this tome.
  Enamel
  Author: Aristu Erediu
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 16x16x1
  Weight: 5 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Rare
  
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  Fields of Study: Humankind, physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music, geology & mineralogy
  Value: 95 gp
  In this tome Erediu covers the art of enameling. Like her previous 
  Glasswork, the tome begins with guides on selecting the correct 
  materials along with many recipes for various colors and consistencies. 
  Erediu spends an entire chapter regarding the tools needed for fine 
  enameling, and ends the tome with her latest discovery she’s calling 
  the compartmental process, or cloisons in her native tongue.
  Ferns of the Colchinic Forest
  Author: Feara Stargragh
  Race: Half-elf
  Dimensions: 16x16x2
  Weight: 10 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Flora
  Special Knowledge Categories: Mosses & ferns
  Value: 120 gp
  Stargragh’s epic Ferns of the Colchinic Forest contains detailed 
  information on more than 153 different ferns that populate the 
  undergrowth of the massive temperate rain forest. Each fern is 
  fully illustrated and most are shown in their different seasonal 
  presentations. Even now over 120 years after the first edition, Ferns of 
  the Colchinic Forest is considered the best reference on the subject.
  Formichean Metaphysics
  Author: Fraga Durangh
  Race: Half-elf
  Dimensions: 6x5x1
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind, demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Philosophy & ethics
  Value: 20 gp
  This philosophical work focuses upon individual and political 
  ethics. It is Durangh’s philosophical masterwork and arguably the 
  most-influential work of ancient philosophy. This particular work is 
  annotated by an unknown hand—one that was obviously well-
  versed in philosophy and rather critical of Durangh.
  Frog Tongues and Newts’ Eyes 
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x5x2
  Weight: 2 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind, supernatural & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music, dweomercraeft
  Value: 45 gp
  This collection of Gavorian short fables focuses on evil warlocks and 
  witches. Each of the eight tales focuses upon a good, yet hapless, 
  protagonist caught up in a web of deception and evil that eventually 
  results in their deaths or the deaths of their loved ones. As the name 
  suggest, all the tales prominently feature the art of potion making. A 
  wise reader can glean a recipe for a potion of delusion from one of 
  the stories.
  Fungi, Molds, & Lichen of the Cold Marshes
  Author: Cauld Plowterie
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Flora
  Special Knowledge Categories: Fungi
  Value: 50 gp
  A follow up to Plowterie’s Weeds of the Cold Marshes, Fungi, Molds, & 
  Lichen of the Cold Marshes is composes with the same high-standard 
  of excellence. Plowterie looks at over three dozen different organisms 
  common to the cold marshes of the world and how they relate with 
  their environment. Of particular use are the illustrations, allowing a 
  reader to accurately judge which are edible and non-edible. 
  Furniture of Ancient Kemet
  Author: Liart Spilgie
  Race: Elf
  Dimensions: 16x16x3
  Weight: 15 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 150 gp
  Ancient Kemet, buried deep in the Athusian desert and blasted by 
  the sun, developed unique solutions to furniture because of their lack 
  of woods and easy access to the reedy H’pi river. This circumstance 
  brought their wickerwork to the highest level, and their many tombs 
  preserved their work. Spilgie’s tome provides a solid starting point on 
  the subject, but lacks in terms of length and depth of study unlike his 
  other works on Kemet.
  Glasswork
  Author: Aristu Erediu
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 16x16x1
  Weight: 5 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum 
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind, physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music, geology & mineralogy
  Value: 95 gp
  The more-common of Erediu’s two works about glass, Glasswork starts 
  at the very beginning with guides on how to select the correct type of 
  sand and what additives to use as well as their different proportions.  
  Erediu goes through many different glassworking techniques, such as 
  core forming, rolling, blowing, and grinding. She ends the tome with 
  a discussion on faience.
  Gnoll Theology
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Gnoll
  
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  Dimensions: 6x5x1
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Humanoids & giantkind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Theology & myth 
  Value: 90 gp
  It is commonly believed that gnolls only worship their Demon Prince, 
  but that is untrue: gnolls also worship other gods. This unusual work 
  explores that small pantheon of gods common to all Gnolls. Worship 
  is secretive, but known to all gnolls, and never spoken of, either to 
  strangers or even openly within their own tribe. The knowledge of 
  these appeasement rights is passed down by the tribes Uhgoneey, a 
  sort of anti-shaman who acts as a religious/sacred scapegoat for the 
  tribes sins. The Uhgoneey is typically the weakest of the tribe, and the 
  only weakling the tribe allows to exist. Who wrote this text, or how it 
  came to exist is unknown. It is written in Gnoll.
  Gnomish Ethics
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Unknown
  Dimensions: 4x5x0.5
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History, legends & folklore
  Value: 35 gp
  One would expect another volume of jokes-disguised-as-lore, but this 
  Gnomish work is a staid and contemplative look at Gnomish ethics. 
  Focused almost exclusively on normative ethics, the text only lightly 
  delves into meta-ethics or applied ethics. Of particular interest to 
  non-Gnomes is the chapter on the ethics of humor and the practical 
  joke. Much information regarding the inner workings of Gnomes 
  can be gleaned from this chapter (+2 to CHR when entreating with 
  Gnomes in a humorous situation).
  Gormorif Symbology
  Author: Fundin Stonepick
  Race: Dwarf
  Dimensions: 14x12x1
  Weight: 5 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Supernatural & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Heraldry, signs & sigals
  Value: 125 gp
  The reclusive and secretive Gormorif sect has long hidden within the 
  nations of the west, eking out its survival through subterfuge and a 
  nearly impenetrable symbology. Gormorif Symbology breaks open 
  this code, laying bare it phraseology, grouping, and indicative signs. 
  The unknown author of this work is obviously someone once influential 
  among the Gormorif, and his or her reason for breaking the silence 
  regarding their symbols is unknown.
  Grand Strategies of the Hefestian Empire
  Author: Villus Tarqa
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x10x2
  Weight: 3 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment, iron clasp and 
  lock 
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 120 gp
  Written many years after Tarqa’s peak, Grand Strategies of the 
  Hefestian Empire builds upon the theories put forth in Treating with 
  Vassal States, but treats military actions as political actions, bringing 
  forth a new interpretation of the full scope of Hefestian political life. 
  It is another masterful book by Tarqa, but the first signs of infirmity are 
  showing between the lines.
  Half-Elven Psychology
  Author:  Jacinth Infal
  Race: Half-elf
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Psychology
  Value: 55 gp
  Jacinth Infal was not only the linguist author of Elven Dialects, she 
  was an remarkable chronicler of the half-elven condition. This 
  introspective work discusses the difficulties of self and identity for 
  the half-elf from her personal view, but also contains over a dozen 
  “cases” regarding other half-elves and the troubles and challenges 
  they faced.
  Halfling Dialects
  Author: Bartholomew Stoutbottom
  Race: Halfling
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 1lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Languages
  Value: 55 gp
   
  This brief work explores the differences between the Halfling dialects 
  spoken by the tallfellows and stouts. Unlike most Halfling works, this 
  one is extremely dry and of interest to only the most academic. 
  Written before Halfling: Spoken and Written, Stoutbottom’s Halfling 
  Dialects is a remarkable work of scholarship, but most will find little 
  use in its detailed study of small differences.
  Halfling: Spoken and Written
  Author: Bartholomew Stoutbottom
  Race: Halfling
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 1lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Languages
  Value: 45 gp
  
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  This famous work by Stoutbottom is considered the final world on 
  Halfling language instruction. His method of language acquisition 
  is remarkably speedy and successful.  Stoutbottom introduces the 
  language in the Common script, but quickly transitions into the 
  two traditional Halfling scripts. Those who intensely study this tome 
  gain a basic knowledge of the Halfling language based upon their 
  Intelligence: 3-10 takes 1 year, 11-15 takes 9 months, 16-17 takes 6 
  months, and 18+ gains Halfling in only 3 months of intense study.
  Halflings of Cormor Dales
  Author: Cromulent Dalesly
  Race: Halfling
  Dimensions: 12x12x3
  Weight: 8 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment 
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Politics & genealogy, sociology
  Value: 120 gp
  This tome discusses the halflings of the Cormor Dales who have 
  occupied those rolling hills for generations, slowly eking out an 
  existence in the hardscrabble. The Cormor halflings have developed 
  a different type of clan relationship than other halflings and their 
  interwoven and inclusive filial connections lead other halflings to 
  determine that they’re their own clan. But to a Cormor Dales’ halfling, 
  there are over twenty different clans, each apparently as different 
  from each other as the Cormor are from other halflings.
  Hardtap’s Homebrews
  Author: Gunner Hardtap
  Race: Dwarf
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 2lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music
  Value: 25 gp
  The handy tome is a guide to the making of small beer (beer that is 
  low in alcohol and can be consumed in prodigious quantities). An 
  odd subject, but Hardtap was an odd dwarf: a non-drinker. Hardtap 
  spent many years trying to convince all and sundry of the evils of 
  alcohol, and viewed small beer as the way of weening drinkers off of 
  real alcoholic drinks. There are about a dozen different types of small 
  beers in Hardtap’s Homebrews using various ingredients keyed to the 
  changing of the seasons.
  Hidden Paths of the Glomwood
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Unknown
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Physical universe
  Special 
  Knowledge 
  Categories: 
  Geography, 
  topography 
  & 
  cartography
  Value: 520 gp
  The great forest called Glomwood, infested as it is by giant spiders 
  and other foul giant insects is avoided by all but the foolhardy. 
  Apparantly, the unknown author of this tome had no difficulties, as it 
  contains detailed maps indicating more than a dozen paths within 
  and throughout the Glomwood. Only a few locations are named, 
  and these are rather forbidding: Tower of the Nigal, Path of Shards, 
  Trees of Woe, Garden of the Tiny Giants, etc.
  History of the Clan Iarnuuocon
  Author: Gleed Wharp
  Race: Gnome
  Dimensions: 16x16x1
  Weight: 5 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment 
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History, politics & genealogy
  Value: 90 gp
  Clan Iarnuuocon is one of the great gnomish clans of the Recurved 
  Hills. For the past 500 years, they’ve ruled the hills, keeping them safe 
  from the goblins and kobolds infesting the nearby mountains. This 
  history/genealogy is liberally embellished by individual portraiture 
  and dozens upon dozens of family trees.
  Horsemanship on the Battlefield
  Author: Villus Tarqa
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 2lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 70 gp
  The Vitaq cavalry rightly deserve their plaudits and Horsemanship on 
  the Battlefield is a study into the strategy and tactics of the Vitaq. 
  This tome covers all types of cavalry maneuver, excepting those 
  for heavy cavalry, which the Vitaq never used. There are a few 
  illustrations in this work, but they are only of passing quality. This work is 
  notable in that it is the first of many volumes written by the legendary 
  ancient historian Villus Tarqa and it hints at the analytical brilliance 
  of his later years, more importantly his familiarity with the subject at 
  such a young age implies that Targa wasn’t a Hefestian, and instead 
  was Vitaq.
  Humanoid Traps
  Author: Corfo Butterburr
  Race: Halfling
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, stoneboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Physical universe 
  Special Knowledge Categories: Architecture & engineering
  Value: 60 gp
  This tome delves into the most-common types of traps set by the evil 
  humanoid races: leg-holds, gripping, deadfall, snares, pits, and glues. 
  Readers of this tome gain a basic understanding of these traps and 
  an ability to recognize them when they are not explicitly disguised 
  (these require a thief to detect). Readers also learn how to bypass 
  or disable these common traps, again providing they haven’t been 
  
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  deliberate disguised. Thieves reading this book gain a +10% chance 
  to Find humanoid traps and a +20% to Disarm them.
  Ice Elves of Sarispirtti
  Author: Dido Frongi
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x10x1
  Weight: 2 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment 
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind, physical universe, supernatural & 
  unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Law & customs, architecture & 
  engineering, dweomercraeft
  Value: 125 gp
  Far to the north, in the white lands of ever-snow, the ice elves reside, 
  eking out a remarkable existence in such a harsh clime. The Sarispirtti 
  spreads for thousands of miles above the lands of both the West 
  and East, and the ice elves are its indisputable masters. This tome 
  discusses their remarkable ice-sculpted habitations as well as their 
  amazing magics allowing life to flourish in the land of ever-snow.
  Kobolds of Connacht Pass
  Author: Frona Willia
  Race: Half-elf
  Dimensions: 6x5x1
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humanoids & giant-kind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 25 gp
  This tome is a speculative history work, pondering upon various 
  theories regarding the kobolds of Connacht Pass. Rarely does one 
  find kobalds in charge of a pass, but the kobolds of Connacht Pass 
  are no ordinary kobolds, and they’ve guarded their pass for decades. 
  They have mastered tactical fighting, devastating engineering, and 
  a strange form of magic apparently unknown to other kobolds: these 
  kobolds have witch doctors that use illusionist magic! These three 
  factors have combined into a powerful force, making travelers of 
  the Connacht Pass pay a fee for safe passage. 
  Lady Kimosal
  Author: Psattor Marivik
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x5x2
  Weight: 2 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music
  Value: 25 gp
  This heroic romance follows the story of Lady Kimosal, Paladin of 
  Cormuth, from her birth in a barn in some unknown village, to her 
  eventual rule of the Knights of the Order of the Golden Lion. The tale 
  is told in a vigorous and vibrant voice, bringing the reader into the 
  action and romance of the story. The tale of Lady Kimosal is found on 
  shelves of any distinction.
  Lava Tubes
  Author: Dugal Cavewalker’s
  Race: Dwarf
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 4 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, stoneboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Geology & minerology
  Value: 50 gp
  The last of Cavewalker’s tomes, Lava Tubes was written more than 
  80 years after Cavewalker’s Guide to Wild Caverns. Hailing from a 
  land free of volcanism, Cavewalker decided to travel to far foreign 
  shores and learn everything to be learned about lava caves from 
  the natives. He tested their knowledge against his knowledge, 
  combining the two into an excellent guide on the dangers of lava-
  formed caves.
  Leaves: Shapes and Uses
  Author: Ricardo Dimario
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x6x0.5
  Weight: 1lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Flora, supernatural & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Trees, medicine
  Value: 35 gp
  This strange little tome claims a magical link between the shape of 
  leaves and their medicinal uses. Although Dimario was obviously well-
  versed with many different types of trees, and equally well-versed 
  in medical knowledge, there is absolutely no connection between 
  shape and medical use. It is unknown why Dimario wrote this work, 
  but sages speculate it was written during his imprisonment by the 
  Sultan of Soquet and that perhaps this tome was the reason for his 
  eventual release after 4 years in the infamous Alssijn.
  Legal Distinctions in Letters Marque
  Author: Glisama Tazzaar
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 16x16x2
  Weight: 10 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Law & customs
  Value: 50 gp
  This text (with an overly-expansive title) covers only the distinctions 
  between letters marque among the nations of the Bophauz 
  Archipelago. The 13 nations within the area have a complex history 
  and law surrounding letters marque and Tazzaar lays forth the 
  differences and distinctions with clarity and concision. This text is 
  recommended reading for any would-be privateer.
  Logistics
  Author: Villus Tarqa
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x10x2
  Weight: 3 lbs.
  
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  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment, iron clasp and 
  lock 
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 70 gp
  Prior to Tarqa’s Logistics, nothing had ever been written about the 
  subject, although all the great generals understood that mastery of 
  logistics can be the knife’s-edge difference between victory and 
  defeat. For this work, Tarqa spent several years campaigning in the 
  field with eight different generals (six of which he later included in one 
  of his biographical works) learning how to perform proper battlefield 
  logistics. His work became required reading for all Hefestian battlefield 
  commanders. It was Logistics that made Tarqa his fortune, and which 
  granted him access to the highest halls of power in Hefestia.
  Mesmerism
  Author: Nulzer Ninetoes
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x5x1
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Supernatural & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Dweomercraeft
  Value: 250 gp
  A thin work on the phantasmal nature of mesmerism, Ninetoes 
  Mesmerism is considered required-study for any serious illusionist. 
  Magic users who study this work for at least three months gain a +1 
  to their saving throws against any type of mesmerism (charm person, 
  suggestion, etc.). Illusionists gain a significantly better understanding 
  of those spells, making their targets save at a -2 against them.
  Mountaineering
  Author: Bracon
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 2lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Humankind, physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music, architecture & 
  engineering
  Value: 350 gp
  This practical tome is the only known one about the subject. Written 
  by the hill barbarian Bracon, the tome shows a remarkable creativity 
  in the illustrations of purpose-made gear Bracon created for his 
  passion. Of the many tools within, two (the piton and carabiner) 
  have become so common now that many do not know from where 
  they originated.
  Mummification
  Author: Kymt Fargalz
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 16x16x3
  Weight: 15 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Humankind, physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: History, chemistry
  Value: 650 gp
  This long work is a compilation of various ancient Kemetian 
  texts regarding the art of mummification. The original texts are 
  accompanied by translations, but scholars universally view the 
  translations as faulty even though they do not agree on whether 
  this is intentional or simply due to lack of skill of the unknown author. 
  Regardless, this work his highly valued among the intelligentsia given 
  the current Kemetian craze.
  Octopi of the Sunder Reefs
  Author: Mari
  Race: Aquatic elf
  Dimensions: 16x16x1
  Weight: 5 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment 
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Physical universe, fauna
  Special Knowledge Categories: Oceanography, cephalopods & 
  echinoderms
  Value: 50 gp
  The Sunder Reefs are best known for their deadly ship-wrecking 
  abilities, but underneath the normally placid waves, life blooms with 
  an almost relentless abandon. The sister book to Octopi of Coral Gulf, 
  this intricate work of Mari is the result of a life spent under the waves, 
  exploring the terrain as few others could. More than 45 types of 
  octopi are described, including the deadly-venomous opal octopus. 
  It is unknown why there is no large-scale underwater map in this 
  work as there is in the previous work, and this lack makes this tome 
  significantly less valuable.
  On Morality
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 1lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music
  Value: 45 gp
  The staid exterior and misleading title of this tome helps disguise its 
  contents from the casual viewer. Within the covers are dozens of 
  erotic stories and over 100 erotic illustrations. The true authorship 
  of On Morality is unknown, but it’s generally accepted that Darfan 
  Unranq is a nom de plume of the 7th High Priestess of Lilthar. The 
  prudish Liltharians adamantly deny this, of course.
  On Suffering
  Author: Grovia Theromorph
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 16x16x2
  Weight: 10 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Philosophy & ethics, theology & myth
  Value: 45 gp
  
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  This philosophical tome delves into the various concepts large 
  religions have regarding suffering. On Suffering is an exhaustive 
  comparative study of the twenty four major religions of the western 
  world.  The tome is so thoroughly read, discussed, and argued that 
  scholars have incorporated it into a saying describing a worn-out 
  confrontation: “An argument with an ending as Suffering.”
  Orcs of Legend
  Author: Albermark Hizzi
  Race: Half-orc
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 2lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humanoids & giantkind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 50 gp
  Hizzi’s Orcs of Legend is a foundational work of Orcish history. This 
  biographical tome discusses 23 famous orcs from ancient times to 
  only 50 years ago. Most of the subjects are famous warriors, but a few 
  shamans make the roster. Each subject has a comprehensive history 
  of their self and their tribe along with a greater historical framework 
  regarding the effects they had upon the larger world. 
  Oru Eschatology
  Author: Saints of Oru
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Theology & myth
  Value: 50 gp
  This commentary on the Oru, the Bamghuti holy book focuses on the 
  end of days. In the Bamghuti religion, the end of days is signaled by 
  the arrival of the Great Charlatan: he who confusedly speaks yet is 
  chosen to lead. Even the dead follow the Great One, and they begin 
  to walk the earth: the living are turned into the undead. The Great 
  Charlatan himself is then slain by his own creation, and judgment is 
  delivered upon the newly undead for inability to resist the call of the 
  Great Charlatan.
  Otyughs
  Author: Ralo Linchfield
  Race: Gnome
  Dimensions: 4x5x0.5
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Fauna
  Special Knowledge Categories: Cephalopods & echinoderms
  Value: 35 gp
  This brief tome is more a notebook of Linchfield’s observations of 
  the Otyughs living in Darstia’s cess pit. The massive amount of offal 
  generated by Darstia, King Gartian’s slaughter house of a capital, 
  gave Linchfield ample opportunity to get to know the small group of 
  strange scavengers that called the cess pit home. Careful reading 
  of this tome by someone of Int 12 or better, results in a +2 Chr bonus 
  whenever dealing with Otyughs.
  Our Ancient Enemies
  Author: Fighter’s Guild of Dwarrow Delf
  Race: Dwarf
  Dimensions: 16x16x3
  Weight: 15 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, stoneboard, parchment
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Humanoids & giantkind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Biology, law & customs
  Value: 250 gp
  The companions to Fighting Giants in the Dwarven Way, this text 
  provides detailed dwarven fighting methods against half-orcs, 
  goblins, hobgoblins, and orcs. Dozens of different dwarven fighters 
  added to this work over the centuries, and the clarity of their 
  instruction provides readers with a thorough picture of the offensive 
  tactics dwarves use against their ancient enemies. Four months of 
  study and practice provides a +1 to hit bonus against one of the 
  following: orcs & half-orcs, goblins, hobgoblins. Dwarves gain no 
  benefit, and non-dwarves can only gain the benefit a single time.
  Peat Bogs of Dormor
  Author: Mithrellas
  Race: Elf
  Dimensions: 16x16x5
  Weight: 25 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum, brass corners and 
  clasps
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Physical universe, fauna, flora, supernatural & unusual
  Special 
  Knowledge 
  Categories: 
  Topology 
  & 
  cartography, 
  amphibians, avians, insects, mammals, bushes & shrubs, flowers, 
  fungi, herbs, mosses & ferns, medicine
  Value: 850 gp
  The great northern kingdom of Dormor is known for its rich harvests, 
  hearty horses, and its bogs that seemingly reach to the very top of 
  the world itself. Scholars do not know what drove Mithrellas to spend 
  more than seven centuries among the boggy and barren lands, but 
  the result is the monumental work Peat Bogs of Dormor. This massive 
  tome is an atlas, a bestiary, and an herbal. It is doubtful that anything 
  will ever be its equal.
  Philosophy
  Author: Artur Brimka
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x5x2
  Weight: 2 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Philosophy
  Value: 25 gp
  This broadly-titled work sets forth Brimka’s philosophy in a straight 
  and direct format: using numbers to indicate progressive thoughts. 
  Focuses primarily upon dualistic conceptions, Brimka delves into the 
  conflicts inherent with interior and exterior, soul and flesh, and time 
  and stasis. Brimka’s work has greatly influence all Derustian thought, 
  although he is now considered somewhat old-fashioned.
  
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  Principles of Navigation
  Author: Regina D’korma
  Race: Merman
  Dimensions: 16x16x1
  Weight: 5 lbs.
  Materials: Sea otter skin-bound, woodboard, vellum, brass corners 
  and clasps
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Topography & cartography
  Value: 125 gp
  This common work describes all the basic navigation tasks, both 
  with and without tools. Focusing mostly on celestial navigation, the 
  strength of D’korma’s work is its ease of use. Even novices can gain 
  a sound footing on the subject, performing simple tasks after only 
  moderate effort.
  Sea Battles of the Veruvian Wars
  Author: Villus Tarqa
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x8x1.5
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 35 gp
  The last known tome by Tarqa, Sea Battles of the Veruvian Wars 
  discusses the battles that ranged between Hefestia and their ancient 
  enemy Veruvus. It is considered as Tarqa’s least important work. 
  Written when he was blind and ill, most of it transcribed from his death 
  bed, many scholars consider much of this work more fabrication than 
  history. Sadly, it ends without completion as Tarqa died before he 
  could finish the last chapter.
  Small Life of the Desselton Waters
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 16x16x2
  Weight: 10 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Fauna
  Special Knowledge Categories: Amphibians, mammals, reptiles
  Value: 40 gp
  Although known for its gamebirds, the great marshy center of Turbinal 
  has a rich diversity of small life, such as rabbits, otters, muskrats, and 
  huge numbers of amphibians and reptiles. This tome classifies many 
  of these different life forms into their respective categories and 
  provides a brief description of each creature’s behavior. There are a 
  few illustrations, but none of any remark.
  Snails and Slugs of the Lambeth Forest
  Author: Telperion Starchaser
  Race: Elf
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 2lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Fauna
  Special Knowledge Categories: Crustaceans & mollusks
  Value: 50 gp
  Written after the precise Microclimates of the Lambeth Forest, Snails 
  and Slugs of the Lambeth Forest is an equally precise accounting 
  of the varied and wonderful gastropods of Starchaser’s native land. 
  The illustrations within are of the highest quality, amply demonstrating 
  that Starchaser’s artistic abilities were equal to his observational skills.
  Songs of Ranste
  Author: Pirn the Skunie
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x5x0.5
  Weight: 0.5 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind, demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music, history
  Value: 50 gp
  The great port-city of Ranste is filled with songs from throughout the 
  world, but many are local originals. Songs of Ranste collects these 
  native songs with notation and lyrics, and even contains divergent 
  variates. Of particular interest to the scholar is the section devoted 
  to the songs as remembered by the eldest sailors compared with the 
  current versions.
  Stonework of the Stone Giants
  Author: Buri Hammerhand
  Race: Dwarf
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 6 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, stoneboard, parchment, iron clasp and 
  lock 
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Architecture & engineering
  Value: 90 gp
  Written and illustrated when he was a lame and aged dwarf, 
  Stonework of the Stonegiants is an unusual look into the greatest 
  stone giant work: Stonefall Fierce. During the 33 years Buri spent with 
  the stone giants of the Grimvault Peaks he worked next to them as 
  they constructed their famous fortress, forging the desired metalwork 
  that one still sees today. Although Buri was a smith and not a mason, 
  he obviously managed to suss out many of the stone giant methods 
  that back the legendary quality of their work.
  Tactics of Marcho
  Author: Villus Tarqa
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 2lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 40 gp
  The great general and first Emperor of Hefestia, Stilli Graias Marcho 
  Ahenobarbus provides a worthy study in battlefield and political 
  tactics. In this work Tarqa focuses mostly on his grand Western 
  
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  campaign in which he brought all ten tribes of the Brabarie under 
  heel and from which he successfully launched his takeover of 
  Hefestia. After gaining the Emperorship, Marcho only returned to the 
  battlefield twice, and both encounters are thoroughly examined by 
  Tarqa.
  Temples of Erisford
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 16x16x1
  Weight: 5 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum, brass corners and 
  clasps
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History, theology & myth
  Value: 50 gp
  The great city Erisford is known as the City of Pilgrims, or the City of 
  1,000 Gods, and each god has its own temple and sacred huwasi 
  stone. This tome dives into the hundreds of different temples within 
  the city, yet at 487 temples, it falls short of the alleged full thousand. 
  All the major temples are thoroughly detailed along with the major 
  tenants and practices of each temple.
  The Book of Flames
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Unknown
  Dimensions: 14x12x2.5
  Weight: 9 lbs.
  Materials: Bound in sard, parchment
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Supernatural & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Dweomercraeft, planes (elemental)
  Value: 1,525 gp
  The companion work of The Ebon Book, The Book of Flames is bound 
  in purest sard and written in elven with the same terse brushwork of 
  its companion. It contains the names of hundreds of lesser elemental 
  from the Elemental Plane of Fire and their histories. The work is at least 
  450 years old, and contains all the details and information required 
  by adept magic users for the creation of powerful magics dealing 
  with fire elementals. A magic user with this tome will spend but half of 
  the normal expenses when researching a new spell concerning fire.
  The Caecian Way
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Unknown
  Dimensions: 8x10x0.5
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Architecture & engineering
  Value: 30 gp
  This ancient text by an unknown author describes the creation of the 
  Caecian Way, that famous road connecting Hefest, the capital of 
  the Hefestian Empire to Darstia, 300 miles to the south and through 
  the Meridal Mountains. Constructed over a period of 40 years, the 
  road is still heavily in use today, millennia after the first stones were 
  laid down.
  The Darfalx Codex
  Author: Marvisha
  Race: Half-elf
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Supernatural & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Divination
  Value: 40 gp
  This tome is the compiled ravings of the mad monk Marvisha, she who 
  predicted the split of the Hefestian Empire. After her prediction came 
  true, her every utterance was recorded by a series of monks known 
  as Marvishites. Over 40 years of ravings are recorded in The Dafalx 
  Codex (named after the small village where Marvisha was eventually 
  chained to a post for her own safety) and reading through it is a 
  tough proposal indeed.
  The Deepening Sea
  Author: Vornath Sinblade
  Race: Drow
  Dimensions: 16x16x1
  Weight: 5 lbs.
  Materials: Elfskin-bound, woodboard, vellum 
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Fauna, physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Crustaceans & mollusks, ichthyoids, 
  oceanography, topography & cartography
  Value: 90 gp
  The Deepening Sea is a large body of salty water found in the 
  underdeeps. Vornath’s tome describes the sea and the creatures 
  found therein, but the most-valuable part of the work is the map 
  Vornath compiled from various sources over the 10 years he spent 
  writing the book. Sages speculate on how much of the information 
  regarding the aquatic life of the Deepening is true, but the map has 
  been confirmed as accurate in the places where it has been tested.
  The Elven View of Time
  Author: Pennirth Obering
  Race: Elf
  Dimensions: 14x12x1.5
  Weight: 25 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, brassboard, vellum, silver clasps and lock
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music, philosophy & ethics, 
  psychology
  Value: 450 gp
  Another work from the reclusive sage of the Garvian Mountains, 
  this long tome is not only a dive into the elven view of time, it is an 
  experiential visit into the temporal psychology of the entire race. 
  The tome initially presents in chronological order, and has several 
  areas that repeat with slight variation, before finally ending in a non-
  chronological order. Reading through the tome not only provides 
  insights into the long view of time elves possess, but also provides an 
  experience that simulates the existence, hopefully leading to greater 
  understanding in the reader.
  
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  The Gnomish Gneed for Humor
  Author: Giberbald Gemget
  Race: Gnome
  Dimensions: 6x5x0.5
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music
  Value: 15 gp
  This long piss take of a book poses as a psychological examination 
  of the gnomish sense of humor. Composed in twelve chapters with 
  such titles as “The Gnomish Sense of Superiority” and “The Greater 
  Gnomish Understanding of Reality,” Gemget produces one long 
  laugh at the serious-reader’s expense.
  The Half-Orc: Half Man, Half Beast
  Author: Dumarker
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x10x1
  Weight: 2 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Psychology
  Value: 60 gp
  This tome delves deeply into the psychology of the half-orc, 
  particularly upon the more orcish types that cannot peaceably live 
  among humans. Chapter after chapter deftly deals with different 
  individual issues, but all of them in a tone that clearly indicates the 
  prejudice of the author against the half-orc.
  The Overseer’s Task
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 16x16x3
  Weight: 3 lbs.
  Materials: Papyrus scroll
  Rarity: Unique
  Fields of Study: Physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Mathematics
  Value: 550 gp
  This scroll, the only one of its kind, is a collection of more than 150 
  mathematical problems created to test potential administrators in 
  ancient Kemet. The problems mostly concern distribution issues, but 
  many volume-related problems are included as well. The text states 
  that all royal overseers were expected to be able to solve all of these 
  problems before assuming their task.
  The Punishments of Gods
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x10x1
  Weight: 2 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Theology & myth
  Value: 55 gp
  This tome discusses the typical punishments of the gods based upon 
  the god’s sphere of influence. It covers common punishments for 
  fertility, war, magic, harvest, wine, death, fire, and the sea. In the 
  last chapter, The Punishments of the Gods discusses the various 
  punishments that the gods themselves have suffered. This last 
  chapter has resulted in the tome being banned in different areas, as 
  some religions believe that their individual god is beyond punishing.
  The Rise and Fall of Foristal
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x8x0.5
  Weight: 2 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 125 gp
  This brief tome describes the rise and the fall of Foristal, the monastery 
  located on Burshal Island. The monastery started with a single group 
  of monks joining in communal prayer to eventually ruling over 100 
  daughter houses. The rise took more than 400 years, but the fall 
  came much faster: the invading orcish hoards that destroyed the 
  Hearkialians took down Foristal as well.
  The Secret of the Philosopher’s Stone
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Unknown
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Supernatural & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Dweomercraeft
  Value: 3,000 gp
  This ancient work of alchemical genius actually walks the reader 
  through the steps needed to create a philosopher’s stone: a stone 
  that turns lesser metals into gold. Only a master alchemist has the 
  skill to fully understand and follow all the instructions to make the 
  stone, and the stone only produces about 500 gp more of gold than 
  the materials needed to create it cost, but it does work.  Creating 
  the stone takes 2-4 months, depending on the Intelligence of the 
  alchemist:  <16, 4 months; 17-18, 3 months; 18+, 2 months. There are 
  only 4 known copies of The Secret of the Philosopher’s Stone.
  The Sixteen Transformations
  Author: Hiro
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 14x12x2.5
  Weight: 9 lbs.
  Materials: Bound in ivory, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Physical universe, supernatural & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Chemistry, dweomercraeft
  Value: 175 gp
  The eld alchemical work is found in most alchemical libraries, 
  being considered a foundational work in modern alchemical 
  studies. It provides detailed instruction on the sixteen alchemical 
  transformations performed by the Hiro people of Girjio. Although the 
  
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  language is stilted (and the translation iffy), close and dedicated 
  study of the text is nearly a requirement for any alchemist worth their 
  salt.
  The Smallest Peoples of Evil
  Author: Unknown
  Race: Snyad
  Dimensions: 8x8x1
  Weight: 2lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humanoids & giantkind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Biology, history, law & customs, 
  theology & myth
  Value: 60 gp
  When the Sorcerer Arglanta charmed Hyfra the snyad, little did she 
  know that it would result in the The Smallest Peoples of Evil. What 
  exactly prompted the creation of this book, discussing the snyad, 
  mite, and jermaline societies is unknown, but its accuracy has been 
  tested many times and it has never failed. The Smallest Peoples of Evil 
  is the only known written work by a snyad.
  The Westfold Moors
  Author: Hima Oferla
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment, brass clasps
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 90 gp
  The moors of Westfold abut the damp and misty Westfold coast. Here 
  the rocky karst terrain slowly gives way to a verdant, yet desolate, 
  moorland. The Westfold Moors discusses the history of the area, from 
  the many ancient battles fought here by the native Westfoldians, to 
  the long peaceful times prior to the arrival of the the Horn-Moon Orcs 
  from across the water. Now the Westfold Moors are a dangerous 
  place, and the readers of this tome will highly value the accurate 
  map contained within.
  Training the Legions
  Author: Villus Tarqa
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 8x10x0.5
  Weight: 1.5 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 45 gp
  This ancient tome, untranslated from Hefestian, details the training 
  of the legendary Hefestian Legions. The first serious work of Tarqa, 
  Training the Legions, is a thorough, ground-up, analysis of the three 
  month training process new recruits went through before joining 
  a combat-ready legion. Roughly a quarter of the work details the 
  advanced training combat legions undertook, with particular 
  attention paid to signaling methods.
  Treating with Vassal States
  Author: Villus Tarqa
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 14x12x5
  Weight: 35 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, brassboard, vellum, silver clasps and lock
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: History
  Value: 255 gp
  Considered Tarqa’s masterwork, written when he was at his peak of 
  insight and scholarship, Treating with Vassal States is an exhaustive 
  look at Hefestian relations with the dozens of vassals states that paid 
  tribute to them. It shows how vassal states were played against 
  each other, used as buffers against more-aggressive enemies, and 
  coerced and cajoled on a daily basis. Scholars agree that there is 
  no better work for understanding the creation and maintenance of 
  a hegemonic empire.
  Treehouses of the Sambuda 
  Author: Nabble Kaird
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 14x12x0.5
  Weight: 2 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Architecture & engineering
  Value: 125 gp
  The second volume about the Sambuda peoples by Kaird, Treehouses 
  of the Sambuda details the remarkable houses of the Sambuda: 
  some of which tower more than 100 feet above the ground. Starting 
  with the selection of solid and sound trees, the tome proceeds into 
  the details of material selection, paying close attention to binding 
  materials. The tome is illustrated by Kaird, as was his prior work Dances 
  of the Sambuda, but his skill had improved and these illustrations are 
  of significantly better quality.
  Trees of the Colchinic Forest
  Author: Feara Stargragh
  Race: Half-elf
  Dimensions: 16x16x1
  Weight: 7 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, vellum
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Flora
  Special Knowledge Categories: Trees
  Value: 90 gp
  The lesser of Starfragh’s duo of works on the Colchinic Forest, Trees 
  of the Colchinic Forest is still an exhaustive study of that famous 
  temperate rain forest. Starfragh identifies 32 different tree species in 
  the forest, the most common being spruce, redwood, and fir. Each 
  tree is illustrated with details on bark patterns, leaf formations, and 
  seeds. A small section of the work focuses on the elusive goldenwood, 
  the heart of which is well-known to make the best longbows.
  Troglodyte Biology
  Author: Durag Grunkart
  Race: Half-orc
  
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  Dimensions: 8x10x1
  Weight: 2 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment 
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humanoids & giantkind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Biology
  Value: 150 gp
  This text delves deeply into the biology of the odoriferous underdweller, 
  the troglodyte. Filled with anatomical illustrations and packed 
  with descriptive text, Troglodyte Biology was Grunkart’s life’s work. 
  Grunkart’s hatred of the creatures was legendary, and he personally 
  led raids into their territories to acquire his subjects. Of particular note, 
  Grunkart provides information on making a nauseating potion from 
  various troglodyte glands that reproduces their battle stench. Two 
  glass vials can be gleaned from a relatively-intact corpse.
  Troll Blood: Uses and Abilities
  Author: Esmerelad Orgrefrith
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x5x.05
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Humanoids & giantkind, supernatural & unusual
  Special Knowledge Categories: Biology, dweomercraeft
  Value: 60 gp
  This small unusual tome discusses more than a dozen different 
  ways that troll’s blood can be used in magical preparations. Once 
  a highly-sought-after tome by any potionmaker, scrollmaker, or 
  even apothecary, Troll Blood: Uses and Abilities is now viewed with 
  suspicion among the highly-educated. Exactly why this is the case 
  has proven hard to determine, but those who follow the advice of 
  this tome may find that not everything is as it appears.
  Vampires of the West
  Author: The Stakes of Justice
  Race: Varies
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment, brass clasps, 
  Rarity: Rare
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Legends & folklore
  Value: 150 gp
  This tome discusses the various different types of vampires common 
  in the West. It starts will a full description of traits that all vampires 
  in the West share, and then breaks them down into geographical 
  areas. Each type of vampire has several different corresponding 
  illustrations, allowing the brave or foolhardy to accurately identify any 
  encountered vampire. Written by the well-known vampire hunting 
  order, this tome is most-commonly found in divine-oriented libraries.
  Viscola’s Sign Language
  Author: Wringa Viscola
  Race: Human
  Dimensions: 6x5x1
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Uncommon
  Fields of Study: Humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Languages
  Value: 65 gp
  Viscola’s Sign Language was a surreptitiously created codex by 
  the famed robber Viscola. It is unknown why Viscola felt the need 
  to record the signs she and her band used during the two-decade 
  control in the Warstam, but upon her death the book was brought 
  back into civilization and many copies made. Since then, Viscola’s 
  Sign Language has been appropriated by many other robber bands, 
  and even among the honest deaf, who say that it is a remarkably 
  efficient and expressive language.
  Wisdom of the Halflings
  Author: Grooble Facetwell
  Race: Stone giant
  Dimensions: 6x5x1
  Weight: 1 lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, parchment
  Rarity: Common
  Fields of Study: Demi-humankind
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music
  Value: 15 gp
  This tome purports to be a collection of wise and pithy sayings 
  from famous halflings, but is actually one giant gnomish joke at the 
  expense of their smaller brethren. Perhaps the most famous saying 
  from this work is, “A human, an elf, and a dwarf walk into a bar. A 
  Halfling walks under it.”
  Xuan Papermaking
  Author:  Amorga Biafili
  Race: Half-elf
  Dimensions: 8x10x1.5
  Weight: 4lbs.
  Materials: Leather-bound, woodboard, xuan paper
  Rarity: Very rare
  Fields of Study: Humankind, physical universe
  Special Knowledge Categories: Art & music, chemistry
  Value: 525 gp
  Written after spending three decades in the Far Xuan, Xuan 
  Papermaking brings the knowledge of that far Eastern land to the 
  West. This clearly-written and process-oriented book describes the 
  entire papermaking process, from the selection of fibers, through 
  the preparations process, and ending with finishing and polishing. 
  Unfortunately, the primary plant used in Xuan Papermaking doesn’t 
  grow in the West, but Biafili puts for several alternatives that work 
  admirably, if not quite as well.
  
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  1
  A Gnomish Primer
  2
  A Portable Library
  3
  An Elvish Primer
  4
  An Orc Demographic
  5
  Ancient Kemetian Tombs
  6
  Armar: A History
  7
  Atlas of Het
  8
  Bambhuti Choral Music
  9
  Barding: Art and Manufacture
  10
  Battles of Legion XI
  11
  Breadmaking in Derust
  12
  Bugbear: A Grammar
  13
  Bumbleboots and Other Poems
  14
  Cave Formations
  15
  Cavemen of the Great Wincossa Canyon
  16
  Cavewalker's Guide to Wild Caverns
  17
  Cavora Ipish
  18
  Centipedes of the Armaxot Peninsula
  19
  Children of the Lava
  20
  Cloaks through the Ages
  21
  Columns
  22
  Demons and Devils
  23
  Dialects of the Ilhusian Peninsula
  24
  Domma's Dances
  25
  Doom of Domrie
  26
  Down and Out in Ranste
  27
  Down the Hatch!
  28
  Down the Shadowvein
  29
  Dwarven Drinking Songs
  30
  Enamel
  31
  Ferns of the Colchinic Forest
  32
  Formichean Metaphysics
  33
  Frog Tongues and Newt's Eyes
  34
  Fungi, Mold, and Lichen of the Cold Marshes
  35
  Furniture of Ancient Kemet
  36
  Glasswork
  37
  Gnoll Theology
  38
  Gnomish Ethics
  39
  Gormorif Symbology
  40
  Grand Strategies of the Hefestian Empire
  41
  Half-Elven Psychology
  42
  Halfling Dialects
  43
  Halfling: Spoken and Written
  44
  Halflings of the Cormor Dales
  45
  Hardtap's Homebrews
  46
  Hidden Paths of the Glomwood
  47
  History of the Clan Iarnuuocon
  48
  Horsemanship on the Battlefield
  49
  Humanoid Traps
  50
  Ice Elves of Sarispirtti
  51
  Kobolds of Connacht Pass
  52
  Lady Kimosal
  53
  Lava Tubes
  54
  Leaves: Shapes and Uses
  55
  Legal Distinctions in Letter Marque
  56
  Logistics
  57
  Mesmerism
  58
  Mountaineering
  59
  Mummification
  60
  Octopi of the Sunder Reefs
  61
  On Morality
  62
  On Suffering
  63
  Orcs of Legend
  64
  Oru Eschatology
  65
  Otyughs
  66
  Our Ancient Enemies
  67
  Peat Bogs of Dormor
  68
  Philosophy
  69
  Principles of Navigation
  70
  Sea Battles of the Veruvian Wars
  71
  Small Life of the Desselton Waters
  72
  Snails and Slugs of the Lambeth Forest
  73
  Songs of Ranste
  74
  Stonework of the Stone Giants
  75
  Tactics of Marcho
  76
  Temples of Erisford
  77
  The Book of Flames
  78
  The Caecian Way
  79
  The Darfalx Codex
  80
  The Deepening Sea
  81
  The Elven View of Time
  82
  The Gnomish Gneed for Humor
  83
  The Half-Orc: Half Man, Half Beast
  84
  The Overseer's Task
  85
  The Punishment of Gods
  86
  The Rise and Fall of Foristal
  87
  The Secret of the Philosopher's Stone
  88
  The Sixteen Transformations
  89
  The Smallest Peoples of Evil
  90
  The Westfold Moors
  91
  Training the Legions
  92
  Treating with Vassal States
  93
  Treehouses of the Sambuda
  94
  Trees of the Colchinic Forest
  95
  Troglodyte Biology
  96
  Troll Blood: Uses and Abilities
  97
  Vampires of the West
  98
  Viscola's Sign Language
  99
  Wisdom of the Halflings
  100
  Xuan Papermaking
  RANDOM DETERMINATION OF TOME (D100)
  
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  TOME VALUES (LEAST VALUABLE VERSION IF MULTIPLE)
  Down and Out in Ranste
  15
  Dwarven Drinking Songs
  15
  The Gnomish Gneed for Humor
  15
  Wisdom of the Halflings
  15
  Formichean Metaphysics
  20
  Armar: A History
  25
  Cave Formations
  25
  Cloaks through the Ages
  25
  Hardtap's Homebrews
  25
  Kobolds of Connacht Pass
  25
  Lady Kimosal
  25
  Philosophy
  25
  Battles of Legion XI
  30
  Bumbleboots and Other Poems
  30
  The Caecian Way
  30
  Doom of Domrie
  35
  Down the Shadowvein
  35
  Gnomish Ethics
  35
  Leaves: Shapes and Uses
  35
  Otyughs
  35
  Sea Battles of the Veruvian Wars
  35
  Small Life of the Desselton Waters
  40
  Tactics of Marcho
  40
  The Darfalx Codex
  40
  A Gnomish Primer
  45
  Cavemen of the Great Wincossa Canyon
  45
  Dialects of the Ilhusian Peninsula
  45
  Frog Tongues and Newt's Eyes
  45
  Halfling: Spoken and Written
  45
  On Morality
  45
  On Suffering
  45
  Training the Legions
  45
  An Orc Demographic
  50
  Bugbear: A Grammar
  50
  Columns
  50
  Fungi, Mold, and Lichen of the Cold Marshes
  50
  Lava Tubes
  50
  Legal Distinctions in Letter Marque
  50
  Octopi of the Sunder Reefs
  50
  Orcs of Legend
  50
  Oru Eschatology
  50
  Snails and Slugs of the Lambeth Forest
  50
  Songs of Ranste
  50
  Temples of Erisford
  50
  Half-Elven Psychology
  55
  Halfling Dialects
  55
  The Punishment of Gods
  55
  Humanoid Traps
  60
  The Half-Orc: Half Man, Half Beast
  60
  The Smallest Peoples of Evil
  60
  Troll Blood: Uses and Abilities
  60
  Down the Hatch!
  65
  Viscola's Sign Language
  65
  Demons and Devils
  70
  Horsemanship on the Battlefield
  70
  Logistics
  70
  An Elvish Primer
  75
  Cavewalker's Guide to Wild Caverns
  75
  Bambhuti Choral Music
  80
  Gnoll Theology
  90
  History of the Clan Iarnuuocon
  90
  Stonework of the Stone Giants
  90
  The Deepening Sea
  90
  The Westfold Moors
  90
  Trees of the Colchinic Forest
  90
  Enamel
  95
  Glasswork
  95
  Ferns of the Colchinic Forest
  120
  Grand Strategies of the Hefestian Empire
  120
  Halflings of the Cormor Dales
  120
  Breadmaking in Derust
  125
  Gormorif Symbology
  125
  Ice Elves of Sarispirtti
  125
  Principles of Navigation
  125
  The Rise and Fall of Foristal
  125
  Treehouses of the Sambuda
  125
  Domma's Dances
  150
  Furniture of Ancient Kemet
  150
  Troglodyte Biology
  150
  Vampires of the West
  150
  The Sixteen Transformations
  175
  Children of the Lava
  225
  Treating with Vassal States
  225
  Mesmerism
  250
  Our Ancient Enemies
  250
  Mountaineering
  350
  Barding: Art and Manufacture
  355
  Centipedes of the Armaxot Peninsula
  375
  The Elven View of Time
  450
  Cavora Ipish
  475
  Hidden Paths of the Glomwood
  520
  Xuan Papermaking
  525
  The Overseer's Task
  550
  Mummification
  650
  Peat Bogs of Dormor
  850
  Ancient Kemetian Tombs
  950
  Atlas of Het
  950
  The Book of Flames
  1,525
  The Secret of the Philosopher's Stone
  3,000
  A Portable Library
  12,500
  
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