Lesser Texts¶
In-world books, scrolls, ledgers and codices that the sources name once or twice: histories and treatises, holy and legal texts, grimoires and records. Each entry says where the text was seen and what it is said to contain. Rules text is not reproduced. A text that gains three paragraphs moves to its own page; the holy text of the Sancturi already has one, Elysium's Gate, and the Eldritch Keeper Scrolls are described with the Eldritch Soulcruxes.
Aggormaedes Journal¶
The journal of Aggormaedes, an arcane mage "who details his efforts to cleanse mithis sources", noting that "dragons, most titans and the metal, adamantium appear to be unaffected" (S142). As he fell to possession and madness he recorded the thoughts of the demon possessing him, among them its "total obsession with a Kalari artifact that Aggormaedes has seen before", which "THE MASTER greatly desires" (S142). Before he lost all control he hid the journal and destroyed his own memory; he had also hidden the artifact, leaving clues "only decipherable by priests of Kalar (using the Kalari holy language and Kalari references)" (S142). It belongs to the plot of the Mithis Heartstone.
Sources: S142.
Gap
The journal's date is left as "410??" and the artifact is not named.
Amarin Trade Ledger¶
A ledger bought by Yagun of the Marshford party, linked in the notes to the Pits of Turis, found with a dozen imperial platinum bars of the Amarin Towers (S361). See Amarin.
Sources: S361.
Archwizard Council¶
A book for sale in the Sancturi campaign, priced above the History of Kahun'Darahl and the History of Phen'Arran beside which it is listed (S192). Its contents are not given; for the body of that name, see the Council of Wizards.
Sources: S192.
Book of Dread Runes¶
A book found in the temporary laboratory of a Namakan priest in the ruined temple of Namaka beneath the Kilmarn temple complex, beside a note on infusing acolytes with soulcrux fragments "with the runes that I have shown you" (S164). See Kilmarn.
Sources: S164.
Book of Kera'Jaol¶
A book the Sancturi party left "in sanctuary" (S198).
Sources: S198.
Gap
Nothing is said of its contents.
Djarstrom's Treatise on the Elemental Cycle¶
A treatise on how elementals live: they "draw energy/sustenance directly from their plane and in the process of using/consuming it, release it back into the plane as part of an infinite cycle (see Djarstrom's Treatise on the Elemental Cycle for more details)" (S001, S013). See the Elemental Planes.
Sources: S001, S013.
Eldritch Biology Book¶
A book on Eldritch biology noted in the Sancturi campaign (S186).
Sources: S186.
Gap
Nothing is said of its contents or author.
The Eternal War of the Deep¶
One of the illuminated histories in the Vault of the Ancients beneath Kilmarn, with The Evolution of Earth Magic, A Catalog of Earth Primordials, The Great Fissure Wars and the biography of Hurin Deepstrider, "now an ascendant of Khardas" (S164, S163).
Sources: S164, S163.
The Great Fissure Wars¶
Another of the illuminated histories in the Vault of the Ancients at Kilmarn. The notes say only that it "shows that Namaka is f'ing EVIL" (S164, S163).
Sources: S164, S163.
History of Holy Sites of Arcantus¶
A history of the holy sites of Arcantus, first noted with a journal by Khadri, "the Lightstone Ascendant" (S189); the library it belonged to was emptied into the sanctuary, and the books that went south with the sage Imai were "retrieved!" (S190).
Also called: History of Holy Arctanus Sites (S189).
Sources: S190, S189.
History of Kahun'Darahl¶
A history of the dwarven city of Kahun'Darahl, offered for sale in the Sancturi campaign (S192).
Sources: S192.
History of Phen'Arran¶
A history of the High Elven city of Phen'Arran, offered for sale beside the history of Kahun'Darahl (S192).
Sources: S192.
Iron Tome¶
Listed as a "Holy Text" in the notes on the Priesthood of the Iron Lady, a faith "scorned as a cult in many other places" that serves an Elder God, beside the priesthood's prophetess Hadelia in Alghert (S181).
Sources: S181.
Jeroxx's Abyssal Compendium¶
A compendium of the Abyss cited for the theory that demons came through the Void: "in Jeroxx's Abyssal Compendium it references several demons claiming that the host of Belphegor arrived from a world known as Oestar after having completely consuming all energy there" (S520, S514). See Origin of Demons.
Sources: S520, S514.
Libram of Souls¶
A libram held by Yagur of the Marshford party (S360).
Sources: S360.
Maleficus Demonicus¶
A tome noted with the captured demon Haborym in the Sancturi campaign (S182).
Sources: S182.
Morwen's Tome of Bloodrot¶
A grimoire of Bloodrot magic held in the Ravenhold vaults of the Raven Concord for the Silver Moon (S051). Zolnira and Lord Monmort later made Ashtareth its "safekeeper": "Perhaps you can find something suitably awful in there for Valtor" (S052). It is locked by "a Bloodstone embedded in the dark silvery clasp", opened only with a blood source and an incantation, and teaches Bloodrot magic that works against fleshy undead (S052).
Also called: Morwen's Book of Bloodrot (S051).
Sources: S052, S051.
Nephilis Genesi Demonicore¶
"The legendary Nephilis Genesi Demonicore", lost or destroyed, one of the primary sources said to have shown the rituals by which a drained soul is twisted into a demon (S520, S514).
Sources: S520, S514.
Of Fire and Earth: The Late Primordial Wars¶
One of three books in the vault beneath the Primal Union's temple at the Tethers of Ambusthene in the Rift, with The Radiance of Ambusthene and "a treatise on fire and flame" (S010). See the Primordial War.
Sources: S010.
Old Map of Acadia¶
Not a book but a map: an old map of Acadia offered for sale in the Sancturi campaign (S192).
Sources: S192.
The Radiance of Ambusthene¶
One of the three books in the vault beneath the Primal Union's temple at the Tethers of Ambusthene, the prison of the fire Primordial Ambusthene (S010).
Sources: S010.
Sacred Codex¶
A law of the Kalari pantheon. In Inwe's dream of the council on the Dias of Algahanni, the Ascendant Aion protests that taking dominion of Denitrus from a member of the pantheon "is a direct violation of the Sacred Codex, the Algahanni Accords, and half a dozen other agreements and laws which form the foundation of this pantheon" (S031, S071).
Sources: S031, S071.
Sancturi Codex¶
"A record of taxes, land holdings, etc. It exists in many parts at any given time, but is considered an authoritative and divine work. It is protected from tampering by rune magic. It is fully assembled once every two years for the great election" (S321). It is kept by the Sages of the Codex of the Sancturi Clergy.
Sources: S321.
Tome on Rare Mineral Extracts from Granite¶
A tome found in the Sancturi campaign with "several blank pages" (S193).
Sources: S193.
Treatise on Demonic Pacts¶
A treatise noted with the Treatise on Guiding Demonic Transformation in the Sancturi campaign (S172).
Sources: S172.
Treatise on Guiding Demonic Transformation¶
A treatise noted with the Treatise on Demonic Pacts (S172).
Sources: S172.
The Well of Ravas¶
"An old worn book written in Sharuvian on various sources of Fel energy", carried by Karkazan of the Into the Rift party, who "slipped away and was busy reading the recently acquired 'The Well of Ravas' inside his uncle's wagon" (S009, S006). See Fel Magic.
Sources: S009, S006.
Witches Manual of the Endless Dark¶
A manual of "Malefica and Talismans", noted in the same session notes as the Underdark hermit witch Formol (S199, S200).
Sources: S199, S200.