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"And then, of course, there was the sheer size of the library; tens of thousands of books; thousands of shelves; hundreds of narrow rows."--Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling

Plot Hooks

The Library Caper

Adaptation of The Library of Ferrantia

Act 0, Evil prepares: Miners break into the library subbasement utterly by accident by mining from the Adams Marble Quarry. They are directed in this effort by The Dark Wizard posing as Sam Tick, a mining expert, who is prevented by barrier enchantments at Ilvermorny from stepping onto the property.

Act 1, Establishing shot: air of mischief and excitement as Ellen and her friends sneak into the library one night their first week at school.

Act 2, Something bad happens: the kids soon find the librarian, Paige Turner, injured and unconscious on the library floor and they hear the sounds of the miners recounting how the books must be incredibly valuable on the black market.

Act 3, Enter the hero: Ellen faces the choice of what to do.

Act 4, Commitment: the Dark Wizard and his henchmen become aware of Ellen and her friends’ initial response to the situation and try to trap them in the library so they can quietly subdue the kids while stealing magizoology books.

The moment Grindelwald spots Ellen: "Magic blooms only in rare souls. You need skulk in the shadows no longer, little one," and extends a hand to her. Of course, he's scary and insane in his quest for added power in his crusade against Muggles.

"Come with me, Ellen. The old ways serve us no longer," he invites chillingly, speaking to her as if she's older, as if she knows him, as if she's someone else entirely. "I've had a vision, my child. I will rise to dominance over the wizarding world. Muggles are lesser. Disposable. Come with me and we shall seek out the magical beasts as we once did, and draw them into Nurmengard."

Act 5, Pursue initial/obvious goal despite complications: Ellen and her crew must evade, foil, or thwart several mundane miners and a very powerful, increasingly evil wizard.

stealth option: hide, try to steal back stolen books
social option: try to break the charm hold on the miners
battle option: mainly fight vs. miners and Dark Wizard’s familiar used as spellcasting conduit
transcend option: just break out and seek help immediately

Act 6, Reversal: All seems lost for a long dark moment because the bad guy manages to ___________. Perfect moment for a little help from a little friend.

Act 7, Go for the true goal: Unfolds in real-time as Ellen’s party now fights to escape/warn the rest of the school about the Dark Wizard’s approach & attack.

Act 8, Back to normal/can never be normal again: Ellen’s party now must face the school year knowing that a mysterious and powerful Dark Wizard is hunting them specifically.

Library Caper Items

Fox-in-a-Bag: Sleeps all the time. As soon as it touches the ground, it will run around like crazy. Dex 18, AC as plate because of high Dexterity + foxy nature. If you pick it up (good luck) it will fall back asleep.[1]

Marble Man: This statue comes to life when touched, functioning much as a normal servant would. It is only as strong as a normal human and can carry out any basic function it is taught the word for. It cannot speak, run or fight and if struck with a blow will fall to the ground and shatter into pieces.[2]

Jesters Skull: tells bad joke on request, 1in6 good [3]

Perpetual motion machine: Utterly unremarkable in a world filled with magic, but still cool.[4]

A hefty piece of magnetic ore: that fell from the skies[5]

A gnarled walking staff: of living wood that can manipulate tiny objects while you hold it[6]

Antique animal cage: [7]

A small rabbit-fur pouch: filled with ceremonial herbs and incense[8]

Armor Piercing Arrows: arranged on a wall display. Tipped with special metals that ignore AC, +2 to hit.[9]

Scrying Arrow: arranged on the wall display. It takes a moment to prep the scrying arrow. You look into the foggy glass and your non dominant eye loses sight for a second before reforming inside the glassy bulb. This effect lasts for a minute. This arrow can then be shot.[10]

A coin: that appears to have the same sides to everyone except you[11]

A small, leather-bound book: filled with prophecies. All of them will be found to be true, but the last of them is dated just a few weeks ago.[12]

Library Books at Ilvermorny

Title	Author	Description	Source
Arneson’s Guide to Draconian Droppings			[13]
Beesman’s Guide to Clerical Effiency			[14]
Bend the Knee			[15]
The Black Fleet			[16]
Blades of the West			[17]
Brigands Throughout History			[18]
The Broken Blade			[19]
The Burning Lake			[20]
The Burnished Shield			[21]
Chastity: A Woman’s True Weapon			[22]
Clubs: Primitive and Effective			[23]
Comicus Rex			[24]
The Concubine’s Chronicle			[25]
Cotton as a Cash Crop			[26]
The Creeping Vine			[27]
The Crescent Moon			[28]
Death and Beyond			[29]
The Defeat of Walla Khan			[30]
Demigods of the Outer Planes			[31]
Dishonor Before Death: A Thief’s Tale			[32]
Dragons and Maidens: A History			[33]
Dwarven Ales: A Cautionary Tale			[34]
Effective Wood Gathering			[35]
Eight Love Potions			[36]
The End and the Beginning			[37]
The Equinox and Solstice			[38]
The Fall of the Yrin Empire			[39]
Fertility Rites of the Kobold			[40]
Fey Charms and Wards			[41]
Fields of Glory			[42]
Fletchings and Bow Strings			[43]
Fool’s Gold			[44]
The Forty-First Thief			[45]
The Frozen Volcano			[46]
Gelfling: Fact or Fiction?			[47]
Geysers of the Upper Plateau			[48]
The Glass Citadel			[49]
Gygaxian Lore and Legends			[50]
The Gypsy’s Curse			[51]
Harvest Sun			[52]
Hard Tack and Gruel: A Ship’s Cookbook			[53]
A History of Falconry			[54]
The Holy Word of Torm			[55]
Hughes’ Heraldry			[56]
Hunter’s Moon			[57]
Johan’s Field Guild to Elk			[58]
The Jongleur’s Bells			[59]
The King’s Guide to Hunting Boar			[60]
Knitting Your Way to Marriage			[61]
Know Your Carnivorous Plants			[62]
Lady DeWinter’s Betrayal			[63]
A Lovers’ Quarrel			[64]
Lunar Cycles			[65]
Magic Yourself Thin			[66]
Maps of Legend			[67]
Merchant’s Guide to the Ovarin Pass			[68]
Message in a Bottle			[69]
Midwifery			[70]
Minerals: Ore Grades			[71]
Minerals: Precious and Semi-Precious Stones			[72]
Ministers of the Red			[73]
My Time with Mermaids			[74]
Of Fools and Kings			[75]
Owlbears: Friend or Foe?			[76]
Prophets and Oracles			[77]
The Puerile Pass			[78]
Rain of Heaven			[79]
Roots and Fungi			[80]
Samuel’s Seminal on Slugs			[81]
The Sewers of Oldenburg			[82]
The Shattered Oak			[83]
Shipbuilding on the Eastern Seas			[84]
Signs and Portents			[85]
Siege Weapons of the Last Century			[86]
Slave Trading: A Historical Perspective			[87]
Stars and Constellations			[88]
Stellar Alignments and Conjuctions			[89]
Sparrows: African and European			[90]
Spores, Molds, and Fungi: A Cookbook for the Underdark			[91]
The Sun’s Orbital Path			[92]
Swordsmen of the Northern Sea			[93]
A Tale of Two Brothers			[94]
Tales of a Dwarven Mage			[95]
Thief of the Heart			[96]
Tidal Guide			[97]
The Tragedy of Quinn Wex			[98]
Treasures of the Sawtooth Mountains			[99]
Trees of the Eastern Provinces			[100]
Tribal Battle Tactics			[101]
Troglodyte Musk and Other Aphrodisiacs			[102]
Understanding Our Friends the Drow			[103]
A Wandering Minstrel			[104]
War: A Personal Recollection			[105]
Warriors of the Open Plains			[106]
The Weeping Unicorn			[107]
Weeval Extermination			[108]
The White Raven			[109]
Wines of the Southlands			[110]
Yarwin’s Voyage			[111]
Zarg’s Guide to Goblin Culture			[112]
Offerings to Set: A Diary			[113]
Cocktail Recipes of the Crimson Court			[114]
The Prayers of Arumfus			[115]
Black Nights and Red Blood: A History of Lost Harnfell			[116]
The Rise and Fall of the Dread Emperor			[117]
Limericks for an Elven Fete			[118]
Cistikins Foul Grimoire			[119]
The Last Titan			[120]
The Teachings of the Great Nordoolus			[121]
Bezum's Book of Marine Engineering			[122]
One Bridge Too Many: Last Stand of the Excitran Cavalry			[123]
The Poetry of Fars Fargrim			[124]
A Dwarf In Shackles: Overcoming the Curse			[125]
Troll Recipes for Fanciful Children			[126]
Anatomy of the Centaur			[127]
Tira and the Roper: A Tale of Forbidden Love			[128]
Nineteen Filthy Leprechauns			[129]
Maps and Floorplans of Porttown			[130]
The Memoirs of Grewg the Pirate			[131]
Bleak Happenings: A history of the Mindplague			[132]
Drinks to liven your Existence			[133]
Popular Dress and Hairstyles of the Second Age			[134]
Aradombular: Three Plays			[135]
Aradombular: A Treatise of the Meaning of Things			[136]
Aradombular: The Philosophy of Gromus			[137]
Aradombular: The Pagan Essays			[138]
The Battle of Orichs and the Fall of Trayle			[139]
The Twelve Sagas of Bronn the Hero			[140]
Ornamental Dogs and their uses in Modern Cuisine			[141]
My Five Humans: An Ogre's Tale			[142]
Dragons: Myth or Fact?			[143]
The Encyclopedia Geraximus: Volume Thirty Four Ch-Cz			[144]
Balls			[145]
Military Ensignia of the Knights Emergent			[146]
Juiblex: The Lost Comedies			[147]
Ode to the Hobgoblin Maiden			[148]
Fifteen Holy Relics of Ylalla			[149]
Pyromancy: An Urban Crisis			[150]
Fuanatic Poisons and Their Cures			[151]
Klybec's Passion			[152]
Otyugh and I			[153]
Letters to the Major: A Bordercaptain's Shame			[154]
The Lost Shrine of Amberdown: Found?			[155]
Hyrax: A Play in Seven Acts			[156]
Tools of the Late Jurian Age			[157]
Bridges: The Secrets of their lasting Construction and Maintenence			[158]
An argument against Necromancy			[159]
The Seventy-seven Quips of Borlak the Arch-Mage			[160]
Thirty Leagues Below Mount Grimbad			[161]
Shields and Bucklers of the Late Devalian Rennaisance			[162]
The Chemistries of Niflif the Clever			[163]
The Cat-Gods of Olix			[164]
Koepple: Ninety-nine Songs of Hate and Derision			[165]
A Brief History of the Orange Uprising			[166]
Desert Survival, A Beginner's Guide			[167]
The Mysteries of Dionicus			[168]
The Care and Feeding of the Xorn			[169]
Small Things and Gnomes			[170]
Deciphering the Language of Kobolds			[171]
The Humorous Letters of Mayor Barrelroom			[172]
Nine Sages in Hell: A Warning			[173]
The Flora and Fungi of the Grey Forest			[174]
The Thirty-Seven Useful Parts of the Catoblepas			[175]
The Unmasking and Trying of Witches!			[176]
Fifteen Fowl Recipes			[177]
Siege Engines and their Construction and Use			[178]
Engineering Secrets of the Elder Kings			[179]
The Sins of Father Trinicus			[180]
The Prophesies of the Jilgrian Sisterhood			[181]
Small Wonder: Rise and Fall of the Halfling King			[182]
Herbology: An Apprentice's Handbook			[183]
A Pictoral Guide to the birds of the Mossy Vale			[184]
The Secrets of Seduction for the Clueless and Childless			[185]
Naughty Gifts, the Memoires of Lady Truncheon			[186]
Autumn Leaves: The Diary of Woqueforte the Unloved			[187]
Poetry of the Lobingian Epoch			[188]
Seven Simple Love Charms and Potions			[189]
Fishing Lures for every Season			[190]
Preventing Pox			[191]
Disciplining the Wayward Child			[192]
Puddings and Oozes of the Sunless Realm			[193]
Undeath: A Treatise			[194]
The Saga of Eligarth the Bold			[195]
Flumph Recipes			[196]
A History of the Pale City			[197]
Sewage and Irrigation of the Modern Gaol			[198]
Courtly Manners of the Appropriate Kinde			[199]
Ninety-Nine Songs of Hate and Derision: Right Back Atcha, Koepple!			[200]
Feces: A Hunter's Guide			[201]
The Travels and Travails of Willus and Feng			[202]
The Browne Arcanum			[203]
The Legend of the Diamond Throne			[204]
Secrets of the Prax Society			[205]
Brewing like the Masters!			[206]
The Lost Erotica of the Merrow			[207]
Tales of the Far South			[208]
Twelve Habits of the Successful General			[209]
Misery Loves Company: The Care and Spreading of the Latest Plague			[210]
The Polite Prayerbook of the Penitant Pilgrim			[211]
Haques' Dictionary (2600 pages).			[212]
Arcanomysteria	Revis Dalor	The book has a deep blue cover with gold filigree decoration. The book contains no actual spells, but discusses the nature of paradox within magical systems. Although the book only appears to be about 50 pages long, the end can never be reached -- there are always more pages to read. Somehow, the book never repeats itself.	[213]
A Children's Guide To Necromancy	Anonymous	This thin book has colorful, if mildly grotesque illustrations. The book is sealed with magic, and can only be opened by whispering a popular, but ominous children's rhyme into the lock. The book contains several basic spells involving the temporary reanimation of harmless insects, and a spell to summon a ghostly brother or sister to play with.	[214]
Ix Thrin Makor	Ulus the Fine	This cryptic book is written in six languages in a repeating cycle -- the next word is always written in the next language in the cycle. Fluency in all six languages is most likely required to read the book effectively. The books primarily contains spells of Ulus the Fine's own creation, but there's also a family recipe for hamhock soup included, for some reason.	[215]
My Skull	Agruk	This book is actually an orc skull with a broken tooth, completely covered in arcane runes. Reading the book requires pressing the skull's mouth against the reader's ear and listening to the endless whispers issuing forth. The "book" can't be heard by others, but also can't be paused -- listening to its complete contents takes several hours. The spells are mostly descriptions of how to perform tribal orcish rituals.	[216]
Forma Cryomantica	Eira Mistral	This large book has a painted light blue cover and is always ice-cold to the touch. Warm gloves are needed to hold it for more than a minute or two. The book contains several spells involving the creation of temporary items out of magically conjured ice.	[217]
(This book has no title)	Anonymous	It has covers of carved ivory. The text within is encoded, but the first page containing the key to the cipher has been torn out. The book is enchanted so that turning a page always leaves a fresh, stinging papercut on the reader's hand. Once decoded, the book describes in detail a pocket dimension called the Glade of Ash.	[218]
The Housewife's Collection of Practical Magic	Illimina Bastworth	This small pocket-sized guide has a rose cover and a few hand-inked illustrations. The book contains a spell to create a magically animate broom, several family-favorite recipes, several spells designed to entertain small children, and other spells related to managing a household. One spell stands out from the rest: a spell that summons an otherworldly horror with many eyes and tentacles and teeth to discern whether a husband has been unfaithful, and if so...to viciously devour him and his mistress.	[219]
Grimoire Insomniax	Rutus Vilgristar	This solid black book only lists its title and author on an interior page. The book contains several descriptions of dream-hunting monsters that prey on sleeping victims, and several spells to aid victims of those monsters. Anyone who reads the book finds that they are unable to fall sleep for at least a week. Some readers never sleep again.	[220]
The Jangling Ring	Salazre Sivord	100 pages of vellum bound on all four sides with iron rings, making it impossible to open the book. On the cover is a painted red mouth showing all of its teeth, except the teeth are links of chain. An incantation causes the mouth to animate and the reader can speak with it. The mouth agrees to release pages of the book to the reader, but only if the reader feeds the mouth three iron links of chain per page. The spells within are various spells of Salazre Sivord's own creation.	[221]
Chants of the Deep	Ethelred the Growler	This dwarven book is bound between thick iron plates. The book has a heavy lock and a small mithril needle on a chain. The lock opens only when a drop of dwarven blood is dropped into the lock's keyhole. The pages within discuss several vocal chants of a particular dwarven clan, mostly chants that magically aid mining, metalworking, and war.	[222]
Codex Sanguisugae	Anonymous	This book is the color of clotted blood, and has an illustration of a leech's mouth on the cover. The book describes several methods of bloodletting for the purpose of alleviating pain and disease. Attached to the binding is a razorblade on a chain. Anyone who reads the book finds themselves struggling with an enticing desire to cut their skin with the razor and taste their own blood.	[223]
A Shape To Call One's Own	Ruklau the Knobbed	This white book has a cover illustration of an unidentifiable asymmetrical creature with features of many different beings -- humanoid and monstrous, fanged and feathered. The book discusses several highly controversial ideas on transmutation magic, and includes detailed spells to allow a spellcaster to permanently transform parts of their own body.	[224]
$ % A ( @	Fk!pre	This nonsensical book seems to be a 200-page collection of gibberish, and it's not even really clear which way the book should be held. The book has no cover, and each page is stitched individually to the next in an accordion style, so the book unfolds like a massive pamphlet. The only discernible pattern is that every third page has a small symbol of an eye drawn in the corner of the page. Anyone who studies the book slowly starts to believe that it is the most important book they've ever read, but they can't reasonably explain why.	[225]
The Witch's Scissors	Hagmother Gruth	This old book is in bad shape, with tattered stained pages. The book includes several spells using a pair of magically treated shears as a focus. One in particular describes a curse to sever the relationship between two spouses.	[226]
A History of Runework	Allors Rock	This thick, scholarly tome details several hundred years of rune-based magic, beginning with crude sigils painted in prehistoric caves, up to modern runeworking standards. Heavy bias is given towards the superiority of dwarven runework, while the author insists that rune magic done by members of other races is inferior, ineffective, and not worth using.	[227]
The Red Box	Gaius Saticus Severo III	This polished cherry wood box contained two dozen rolled scrolls. A dragon coiled around a lion is carved into the box's top, and the latch and hinges are made of finely wrought brass. The scrolls are very old, but well preserved. Each scroll contains a spell of a political nature -- spells for spying on rivals, spells for swaying votes. One particularly specific spell deals with the purging of knowledge about the assassination of a politician named Publius Etrus of Galerma.	[228]
Fifteen Riddles	Flitterwick Hillwreath	This collection of gnomish riddles appears at first glance to just be a book written for entertainment, but careful study reveals that the riddles contain encoded spells. The answer to a four-line riddle on the title page is the key phrase that allows the spells to be decoded.	[229]
Libram Esoterica, 2nd Edition	Utterwall, Klaxos, Sunward, et al	This book is an anthology of collected works by other mages. The foreword spends an unusual amount of time insisting that the authors acquired the legal rights to the spells within, despite the protestations of critics. The spells within are relatively mundane and unimpressive, and the book's design is very plain.	[230]
Songs of my Grandfathers	Runa the Jubilant	This book has a bright yellow cover with green leafwork around the binding. The songbook details several magical tunes written by two families of bards. Across the top of each page are several musical notes. When the reader runs their finger along the notes, a pleasant melody plays.	[231]
A Whispering Wail	Strixix	This book has a thick, leatherbound cover. Several clawmarks are visible on its covers, and some of the pages are torn. When opened, the book begins screaming, and nothing can stop it but shutting the book. The screams are so loud that few people can stand being in the room with the open book for long, but several wax earplugs are smashed between pages of the book. The spells within are of demonic origin, dealing with the torment and torture of hated foes.	[232]
The Book of Aske	Sheverald Thanar	This book is bound with dragonhide, and sealed with magic. It can only be opened in a darkness and slams shut in the presence of light. To read it, one must utter a curse against dragonkind, which allows the reader to see its words despite the darkness. The book includes several spells to protect one from dragonfire or to cripple a dragon's wings.	[233]
The Merchant's Tome	Oberforth Hill	This book looks like a perfectly normal business ledger noting sales and expenses. On the spine is a symbol of a mouse. If pressed while the book is closed, the next time it is opened, the book reveals a number of utility spells useful to a business owner. Spells for tallying receipts, spells to ward a door to catch shoplifters, spells to discreetly destroy a rival's advertising.	[234]
Simple Magery	Thilbrod Utterwall	This book is an apprentice's primer on magic. Most of the book discusses basic theories of magic, but it does contain two spells -- one to light a candle with a snap of one's fingers, and one to magically clean a chalkboard. Several of the pages have handscrawled notes in the margins pointing out inaccuracies in the text.	[235]
The Tablets of Aggolar. These three stone tablets are bound together with iron rings. The tablets are carved with ancient letters. The tablets contain spells that seem to be wards intended to keep an ancient king named Aggolar the Wicked from rising from his grave. The tablets note that if the wards aren't renewed every century, Aggolar will rise and destroy the world. Largely considered to be a fiction	Aggolar	These three stone tablets are bound together with iron rings. The tablets are carved with ancient letters. The tablets contain spells that seem to be wards intended to keep an ancient king named Aggolar the Wicked from rising from his grave. The tablets note that if the wards aren't renewed every century, Aggolar will rise and destroy the world. Largely considered to be a fiction by the world's scholars.	[236]
Flicker and Flame	S. Vain	This book is red with gold leaf flames decorating the cover and spine. The spells within mostly deal with the manipulation of fire and methods of communicating with and honoring elemental fire spirits. The book can only be opened when rubbed with ash.	[237]
The Hidden World	Sibrous Thinreed	This book appears to be a blank journal of about 100 pages. However, any attempts to write on its pages causes the ink to run off like water off oiled cloth. A particular incantation causes the words to materialize on the page, but the incantation is not included with the book and must be discovered through other means. Among other notes, the book includes a spell to allow one to become invisible after passing through a doorway.	[238]
Children of the Soil	Talbot Gunderson	This pocket handbook includes several spells for forecasting weather, dealing with soil pests, and magically keeping farming implements in good working order. The most notable spell involves binding a water elemental to one's fields to provide crop irrigation, but the spell's description isn't very clear. One early edition suggests that sacrificing a son is a necessary component of the spell. This detail has been expunged from modern editions of the book.	[239]
Letters to a Young Bride	Illimina Bastworth	This white book is wrapped in pink lace, with a beautifully calligraphied title. The book mostly consists of notes advising young girls how to be "a pure and proper ideal wife," but the spells at the back of the book are surprisingly graphic. The book has been banned in three kingdoms, but remains popular.	[240]
Rattus Rattus Superior	Tiktik Skeech	This book is handwritten in a choppy, small print. Many of the pages have been chewed by tiny tiny teeth. The book is written in a proud, bombastic style that insists on the superiority of rats over all other beings. The book includes several spells involving rats and rodents, including instructions for brewing a potion to transform oneself into a wererat.	[241]
The Word of Kyros	Anonymous	This book is wrapped with several feet of small-gauge steel chain, and sealed with a heavy padlock. The key is missing, but the lock can be picked. The book itself contains many powerful and dangerous spells, but none of the spells in the book function unless the reader severs one of his or her fingers, places it within the book, and chains the book back up.	[242]
The Collected Works of Isvater the Wise, collected and edited	Ovander Malloy	This thick book is neatly organized and contains several hundred spells, ranging from the simple cantrips to highly complex rituals. The book always opens to the last page the reader was reading, and there is a detailed index at the back that automatically opens the book to a selected spell.	[243]
The Minimalist Mage	Aderforth Moon	This white book has no illustrations and no cover text. The pages are crisp white and usually only have a handful of words in the center of each page in neatly printed typeface. The book contains several spells, but all the important details about spell components, incantations, and necessary ingredients have been stripped out to provide a minimalist and clean reading experience, to bring the reader in touch with simplicity and peace. As such, the spells in the book are incomplete and useless.	[244]
Dog of the Moon	Rhastus of Sourbrook	This grey book has an illustration of a dog within the circle of a full moon on the cover. The book discusses the relationship between wolves and dogs and includes several spells related to the care and training of dogs. A somewhat surprising inclusion is the author's assertion that "elf steak" can be cubed and dried into tasty puppy treats. The publisher insists this is a translation error.	[245]
Spirits Interwined	Nil the White	This book has wooden covers, painted tar black, with the title in white. The book primarily deals with a single necromantic ritual, intended to bind the spirits of another to the cast in such a way that they will both rise from the dead to be together forever once death claims them. Once complete, the two undead must remain within six feet of each other at all times or be wracked with horrible pain. Notably, the process does not require the other person to be willing or to even know the caster. There is a dedication inside the front cover: "Thorvald -- now she won't keep us apart."	[246]
Ways of the Sun	Julius Keter	This "book" consists of a very long scroll, rolled up and sealed within a leather case trimmed with red fox fur. The scroll describes a six-week period in which the author lived among a remote tribe of wild elves, and his notes on spells used by their shamans. Only a few of the spells are functional, as it seems that Keter failed to accurately capture some of the rituals.	[247]
Dracologica	Nuxilis Sephern	A large, encyclopedic tome that primarily consists of a dictionary of the draconic language, and essays exploring the popularity of draconic language in spellbooks, scrolls, and other writings of a magical nature. Several spells are included, mostly as examples to compare versions written in the draconic language with versions written in other languages.	[248]
Euphoria	Isaac Orastus	This "book" consists of a large stoppered vial full of a substance that looks like mercury. Bound to the bottle with a length of leather cord is a syringe. When a spellcaster injects the substance into a vein, they fall into a euphoric catatonic stupor for several hours, while explosions of arcane knowledge and new spells rock their mind. This knowledge has a price: the liquid eats away at the flesh around the injection site.	[249]
Mystica Obscura	Annalaria the Blind	This book has a beaded fringe around the edge of its cover, and a beaded eye sewn onto the front cover. Written in a cryptic, rhythmic style, the book deals with divination, primarily various methods of fortune-telling. The largest chapter details the use of animal entrails as a divination of medium, and discusses the nuances of using goat entrails vs. rabbit entrails vs. dog entrails.	[250]
My Mother's Magic	Tulius Whitehand	This memoir and autobiography of the author discusses his childhood growing up in a family of wizards, and particularly details several spells researched and developed by his mother. Reading the dedication summons an ethereal simulacrum of the author's mother, who is a sweet old lady who always manages to sound mildly condescending.	[251]
Footsteps in Ash	Crassus Lorst	This book has a grey cover with an image of an orange footprints. The cover is enchanted so the footprints appear to always be flickering like embers. This grim book details several historical magical calamities. Each disaster is described in detail, while sidebars provide helpful survivalist spells that would have aided anyone caught up in the disaster. The last page of the book shows only a page-length black square. This is actually a small pocket dimension with a 3ft x 3ft x 3ft interior suitable for storing survival materials. The author recommends storing water, food, and necessary tools within.	[252]
Planar Cooking	Jolene Filch	This book consists of recipes for magical meals the author learned during a lifetime of planeswalking travel; most of the meals provide some sort of temporary enchantment or magical effect. The chapter on abyssal meals begins with a legal disclaimer stating that the author records the recipes only for archival purposes and does not recommend actually cooking them or provide details on where to find their grisly ingredients.	[253]
The Phaestra	Anonymous	This book's cover consists of a matrix of long, thin bones, possibly from some sort of bird. Purple and yellow gems are set into the spaces between the bones. The book cannot be opened when the person who holds it or the surface it sits upon touches the ground, requiring some means of magical or mundane flight. Even then, understanding the text is difficult, as the words continually jumble about when the slightest breeze or wind brushes the page. A note affixed to the spine suggests consulting an air elemental might be helpful.	[254]
Shapes in Smoke	Pholus Periaptus	This large black book has a single red gem set into the middle of its cover, and a strap long enough that the book can be slung across the shoulder. The book deals primarily with illusion spells, particularly those that create illusory creatures or people. After reading the book, the reader's hands always smell like woodsmoke.	[255]
Botanical Magic	Hubert Willow	This heavy book has a wooden cover that appears to be made out of living branches. Seasonally, small buds bloom into pink and yellow blossoms. The book discusses several methods of manipulating trees and plants with magic, including a spell to magically prepare an apple seed so that the tree that grows from it will bear 12 kinds of fruit. There is a rumor that Willow forcefully bound an unwilling dryad spirit into the book, but the author vehemently denies this.	[256]
The Seven Sorrows of Nevelash	Morrus and Eft	This book has a thick hide cover with a white handprint on the cover. The book is completely stitched shut, and can only be opened if the stitching is painted with fresh blood. The book describes an ancient queen named Nevelash, and seven tragedies that befell her. Each tragedy includes an accompanying spell, all of which are very powerful, but also cause something emotionally horrible to happen to the caster, such as the death of a loved one, a betrayal by a friend, or other maladies.	[257]
The Book That Walks	Anonymous	This is a small clay figurine of a man. When a command word is spoken, the figurine grows into a tall human man, completely nude. Every inch of his body -- EVERY inch -- is covered in tattooed words detailing several spells. The man stands upright, but remains in a catatonic stupor and doesn't respond when spoken to or moved. If a dispel effect is used on him, he stirs and begins hysterically screaming and begging for help, saying he needs to get back to his family. However, a minute later, he returns to his catatonic state; if wounded or killed, he reverts to his clay form.	[258]
The Vagary of Birth	Hazmud Al'zahiid	The cover of this book depicts of an illustration of a nude pregnant woman giving birth to a host of a dozen different monsters. The book primarily discusses magical reincarnation, with a notable chapter on abominations. The book contains spells to aid a mother during birth, and spells to check on the health of an unborn child, but also some darkly sinister spells to induce birth defects or to force a developing fetus to become to reincarnation of a designated deceased person, even against the mother's will. The author says these spells are included "in the spirit of clinical accuracy and wholeness of debate."	[259]
The Worm Behind The Stars	Jon St. Rose	This book refuses to stay put when places upon a shelf. The reader always finds it open to a random page upon a nearby table or other flat surface the next time they walk into the room, with smudgy fingerprints on the open page, as if someone or something was reading it moments before they arrived. The book's contents are raving and almost nonsensical, describing the titular entity, a worm that lives behind the stars. There are "spells" within, if one can call them that, that seem to be attempts to contact this Worm, but St. Rose doesn't mention if they were ever successful.	[260]
Country Comfort: A Book of Spells	Elsa Rootwell	This book is written in a nostalgic, whimsical style, constantly referencing an idealized rural way of life, and doing things "the way your grandparents did." The spells within are mostly folksy home remedies for common ailments, but one unusual "cure" involves placing a sick person's head within a box full of wasps while chanting "Fnuad! Fnuad! Luthos fnuad!" and drumming on the box with a specially prepared wand.	[261]
Lessons from the Morning Lord	Jotur Elroth Stone	This book features a black silhouette of a man on a field of orange on its cover. The book is heavier than it seems like it should be, and it details a three year period in which the author claims to have been in contact with an ethereal entity called the Morning Lord. Several spells are included. The book doesn't actually state that the spells have to be cast during a particular window of time near dawn, but attempting to cast them at any other time usually leads to horrific, disastrous consequences.	[262]
(This book has no title)	Anonymous	The book appears to be a small pocket notebook, only about 30 to 50 pages long. A small pencil fits into a loop on the book's spine. Every time a spellcaster jots down an idea or thought in the notebook, a sense of peace washes over them, and they soon find their mind brimming with ideas for new spells and magical techniques. It's not until several weeks later that they start to realize that they've begun to having difficulty remembering things -- their mother's name, directions to the cafe they always visit when they come to town, what their nephew looks like.	[263]
The Successful Wizard's Daily Calendar	Yasmina Thogge	This book consists of several hundred pages bound together by several rings along the top edge, one page for each day of the year. Each page has a platitude, statement, or thought for the day for the success-minded mage. The only spell included is a spell to summon a courier goblin to order from Thogge's exclusive line of designer stationary and writing supplies. The goblin looks half-starved and poorly treated.	[264]
Yahud Yahud	Eriadelle Fitzer	The paper of this book is unusually stiff and dark, almost like cardboard. The book is a series of commentaries on the shadow realm, and includes several spells for interacting with shadows, the most notable of which details the creation of a temporary servant made of shadowstuff. When taken into a room, all the shadows in the room seem to deepen and to claw their way towards the book, regardless of the light sources in the room.	[265]
The Stifled Breath	Wendell Quith	This unusual and rare book is bound wrapped several times with a length of hemp rope. The book details several dark and powerful spells that rely on an unusual component: the temporary asphyxiation of the caster. Rumor has it, the author was found dead, a rope around his throat, surrounded by burning candles and magical symbols. There is some debate over whether this was an accident or intentional.	[266]
Cryptoarcania	Indigo Felreed	This thin black book has an illustration of several interlocking gears on its cover. The text within is written so tiny, the book requires a magnifying lens in order to read. As such, contains vastly more content than its size would suggest. The book discusses the important of information security, and details several methods of encrypting a personal spellbook so it cannot be read others. Several spells are included, mostly wards intended to defend one's spellbook from harm.	[267]
Spidersilk	Arana Withertree	This book has a grey cover with a black illustration of a spider hanging from a branch by a strand of silk. Anyone who reads the book always seems to pass through a spiderweb or cobweb shortly after putting the book down. The book details several unique spells, all of which require the caster to make a series of complex gestures all requiring eight limbs. An appendix in the back suggests the book A Shape To Call One's Own may be a useful resource for those lacking the requisite number of limbs.	[268]
Intro to Magical Theory	Redward Flynn	This highly popular book is a common primer on magical theory for apprentice-level casters, but there's something off about this particular copy. Occasionally, the text transitions from tedious explanations of arcane basics into something that seems completely out-of-place: a particular exercise that seems utterly depraved, or a diagram horribly grotesque in nature. If the reader tries to read back over the excerpt in question or show it to someone else, they can't find it, no matter how much they search. After several weeks studying the book, their dreams begin to fill with unsettling nightmares.	[269]
Edicts of the Moss King	Anonymous	This ancient text is burned into several thin wooden boards bound together with loops of leather. The spells within are unusual, mostly dealing with dryads, treants, and satyrs, but the text seems corrupted in some way. Clumps of fungus have eaten away at the letters, somehow changing them to spell new words. Anyone who reads the book soon develops an aggressive fungal infection around their throat and face, one which eventually infects their eyes and fills their mouth.	[270]
The Frexian Pillar	Anonymous	This book takes the form of a wooden cylinder, about five feet long and six inches in diameter. The text is carved into the cylinder in one long continuous spiral, so that the cylinder must be continually turned to be read. Turning the cylinder causes a strange sound, almost like a metal ball rolling along a channel inside. The text is a rhythmic, rhyming chant, and reciting it is physically exhausting and draining. Some scholars believe the cylinder contains a scroll of spells that is unlocked when the chant is completed, but no one has possessed the stamina to complete the chant before collapsing to exhaustion.	[271]
Catch the Exotic	Thinreed Wellbach	This green book has an illustration of a man on a dock catching a massive fish. The book is primarily a fisherman's guide, full of bait tips and tricks specifically tailored to catching exotic, monstrous, and strange fish. Spells include a spell to enhance the tensile strength of a line and one to conjure a box of iced beverages. There is a small pocket dimension inside the front cover; the dimension keeps any bait placed within fresh for weeks.	[272]
Illustrations on the Astral	Iskar Anderflint	This thick book has a brown leather cover with the title in gold lettering. The book frequently misplaces itself -- it never seems to be where the reader last left it, although it never goes far. The pages are translucent and wavy, as if they half-dwell in another dimension. It's impossible to read the book without a pair of specially treated glasses, which stabilizes the text. The book mostly deals with astral projection, and provides several rituals to allow one to fall into a trance-like state.	[273]
I, Immortal	Azur Fin Azal	The autobiography and memoir of Azur Fin Azal, a lich and necromancer king. Long winded and droll, the book is widely considered to be of little practical use to the typical pursuer of the necromantic arts, although it does include several of Azal's notes on the civic uses of mindless undead, including his schematics for a city-wide plumbing system of tubes carved out by skeletal rats.	[274]
Breath of the Isles	Estrelle Shruggs	This book has a beautiful color depicting a woman's face in profile, cheeks puffed, blowing out billowing white clouds. The book discusses the author's theory that island tidal pools may be fonts of magical power, and her experiments with tapping into this pools. Several spells of her own design are included. The book is always cool to the touch, and when read, the reader feels a strange sensation of misty breeze on their face, yet their face is never wet.	[275]
Barefoot Magic	Ramona Brownlock	This book is bound with rich red leather, and has an illustration of a halfling footprint. The book collects notes on several notable halfling wizards, interspersed with odds and ends like Brownlock's orange scone recipe and recollections on a summer night spent beneath the stars. Brownlock's spells are fairly standard, but all must be cast with one's bare feet touching the natural earth. Trying to cast the spells while wearing shoes or indoors often leads to unsettling results.	[276]
Practical Vivisection	Hraff the Mottled	This ugly book covers a gruesome topic -- it consists of log entries in which the author describes anesthetizing and vivisecting his own daughter for experimental purposes. He claims the child was always restored to full health. Several spells are included, among them instructions for making a potion that will cause unconsciousness and methods of removing and preserving organs and replacing them with others.	[277]
(This book has no title)	Anonymous	The book is very large, with a relief of a grossly monstrous face on its cover. The book is locked with iron brackets and three separate keys. The book itself is sentient and speak telepathically with anyone nearby; is it snide and condescending, but promises to teach the reader all manners of arcane secrets. At the same time, it tries to sow discord between the reader and their allies, causing them to become isolated and paranoid, eventually believing the book is their only friend.	[278]
My Years In Service	Archivald Mollius	This book, written by a retired court wizard, describes several decades of service under a long-reigning king. Most of the book talks about court life; Mollius is surprisingly critical of his fellow courtesans and even of the king. The author describes several less-than-legal spells he was asked to design for the king.	[279]
The Jewelwright's Handbook	Sestus Wendelscott	This book features colorful illustrations and detailed descriptions of gemstones suitable for magical imbuement. Notes on gemcutting technique are included, along with dozens of spells, including a spell to make a quartz crystal that explodes in bright colors like a firework when shattered.	[280]
The Libram of Uram	Anonymous	This ancient book can only be opened by tracing a coded sigil on its cover with one's finger. The book describes a fey entity called Uram, along with several spells the author learned from this entity. While reading, the reader is sometimes struck by the sensation of being watched, even when there is no one in the room, and a strange craving for goat meat.	[281]
The Aristrad Decree	Anonymous	This single large sheet of silver plate is engraved with ancient runes. Despite its age, the silver is not tarnished, aside from a spot on the right side that appears to have been scorched. The text includes the description of a spell used to hide a city so that it can never be found again. It's unclear if this was used as a defense or as a weapon.	[282]
Ceti's Manuscripts	Ceti of Valenus	This loose collection of parchment pages is kept in a large leather envelope. The writings of the half-elven alchemist, Ceti, the text describes the author's experiments with a substance he calls villagust, distilled from an inky substance secreted from certain rare jungle aberrations. The notes include a full description of the spells needed to create villagust, but over time, the notes become more raving and nonsensical, suggesting the substance may have some dangerous effects on the mind.	[283]
Trollbog	Hrustis of Erd	This book has a green cover with yellow lettering. The book is a journal in which the author discusses seeking out a swamp witch to learn from her. The book covers several years, but there is an unusual 10 month gap between entries; when the entries resume, Hrustis' tone becomes remarkably melancholy. There is a rumor that the author's agreement with the witch was to give her a child in exchange for her secrets; when he balked due to her hideousness, she chained him in her bedroom until the deal was fulfilled.	[284]
The Mage's Lexicon	Festrun Warbler	This neatly organized book is a dictionary of magical terms and arcane jargon. Particular notes detail the arcane etymology of the words defined in the book, and an appendix at the back includes a handful of basic spells to aid with the translation of magical texts. The book is also inhabited by a helpful spirit who is happy to answer questions, even if it's answers are a bit long-winded and overly complex.	[285]
Cherrypit	Illimina Roodstaff	This book has a cover illustration of a pair of luscious red lips holding a cherry. The book, written in first person, recounts the author seducing a married magistrate, and the spells she used to drive a wedge between him and his wife, as well as certain illicit spells used to make him addicted to her sensual administrations. There is a rumor that Roodstaff later married, taking the name Bastworth.	[286]
Secrets Kept	Fog by Quinn Dotherson	This book is kept closed by a wooden toggle passed through a loop of leather. The book collects several theories on the magical nature of mist and fog. The author also recounts some personal anecdotes from a period of several months spent living in a small isolated cottage in a fog-enshrouded valley, and the entities he supposedly contacted within.	[287]
A Primer on Autotransmutation	Ruklau the Knobbed	This thick textbook is deals with the basic notions of transmuting one's own body. Less complex than the author's other titles, this one focused on basic principles and sound advice to keep the reader from causing irreparable harm to themselves while beginning their forays into self-transmutation. One notable spell serves as a temporary ward, reverting any changes made to the caster's body by other spells cast within the warded circle after about an hour.	[288]
The Citadel Hymnal	Ponticus Rule	This text is religious in tone and trappings, consisting of about a dozen hymns or chants to be sung during times of siege. When sung within the chapel of a fortress or keep, the songs weave protective wards into the walls, but only if the singers are absolutely devoted and steadfast in their faith. If any hold doubt or misgivings, the songs have a tendency to weave disturbing things into the walls -- cracks in vital strongpoints, gruesome traps and monsters that prey on the defenders, infections and pests in stores of food or water.	[289]
Birthsigns of the Hirudati	Asker Fitzwellt	This relatively short book describes a series of birthsigns traced back to a particular centaur tribe, one for each month of the year. Black-and-white inked sketches of the signs are featured in the book. Learning one's birthsign became fashionable in several cities after the publication of the book, but Fitzwellt made a glaring error in his translations, and the birthsigns are actually off by one month. Several spells invoking the signs are included, but unless the dates are adjusted for the translation error, the spells usually fail spectacularly.	[290]
Baby's First Trepanation	Mother Goat	This children's book has illustrations of bright smiling characters and colorful scenes, but the topic is far from child-friendly. The titular character undergoes trepanation at the hands of a family cult as part of a ritual to allow Fafnur the Rotted, a demon of immense power, to possess the child and usher in an era of destruction and torment upon the mortal realm. The book ends with Baby staring directly at the reader with glowing eyes and arcane power spilling from the hole in his forehead, intoning "ZATH ZAFATH THORA'KALASH ZAFATH."	[291]
Lights Upon the Horizon	Edmund Waltgrove	This book has a simple cloth cover and a stitched binding. The book describes several optical phenomena, including auroras and mirages, and various spells to interact with and manipulate them. The author claims that careful study of these phenomena can offer glimpses into alternate universes and other worlds.	[292]
Swallowing the Stone	Dodrick Sabberton	This book describes a method of selecting, shaping, and polishing a small smooth stone, then preparing it with spells and painting it with various alchemical concoctions. Once complete, the stone can be swallowed, at which point the author claims it will take root in the caster's stomach and unlock new arcane power. The book fell out of favor after several readers choked to death trying to swallow their pebbles.	[293]
A Summoner's Alphabet	Bethabell Eldersmith	This beautifully illustrated book consists of a foreword, followed by 52 pages. Each pair of pages describes a particular type of otherworldy being, one for each letter of the alphabet. One page holds a beautiful watercolor illustration of the creature, while the opposite page details a spell that can be used to summon the creature to the caster. Entries include Afores, Gouger of Eyes; Belekor, The Armless One; Calphegor, His Bloated Majesty.	[294]
50 One-Cauldron Recipes For the Working Hag	Baggs the Wartled	This book has a bubbling cauldron being stirred by a smiling, but hideous hag. The book's recipes range from a potion to transform the imbiber into a frog to a mundane recipe for alligator stew. True to the title, the recipes are largely the type that just requires a bunch of ingredients thrown into a pot and left to simmer for several hours.	[295]
Hexproof Your Home	Albert Swindle	This book is a manual for homeowners concerned about wayward mages causing damage to their investment. The book consists of several tips and tricks to safeguard one's home, including a handful of magical wards one can erect, although the spells are poorly explained and it's dubious whether some of them work at all. At the back of the book is an advertisement for homeowner's insurance from Swindle & Filch, Underwriters at Large.	[296]
The Shattered World	Yvla Murough	This book has a small oval mirror set into its cover. The mirror is cracked and splintered, but the cracks always mend, then the mirror shatters again in a different pattern. The book discusses the nature of mirrors and other reflective surfaces as scrying devices, and outlines several spells that can be used for scrying purposes. Reading the book has an unusual side effect: anyone who reads the book becomes increasingly jealous of their own reflection, believing that it is somehow living a better life than they are.	[297]
Thaumaturgical Equinology	Wynneldra Eddervelt	This book has a light blue cover with a line of black horseshoes along the spine. The book discusses several methods of using magic to assist in the care and raising of horses for various purposes. The book features instructions on how to enchant several varieties of magical horse shoes, a divination charm to locate a lost horse, and one unusual ritual designed to restore a horse that has gone mad with a hunger for flesh.	[298]
Marrowmagic	Thogg Urtang	This book is a reprinting of a massive book found in the cave of a hill giant arcanist. The book describes several methods of drawing arcane power out of the marrow of cracked bones, mostly large bones like those of a cow or bear. There is also a chapter at the back detailing uses for bones of humans, elves, and dwarves, but the publisher has redacted and censored much of the content in this chapter.	[299]
The Mystic Tradition	Rene Valchere	This beautiful book has a deep rich purple color with a gold leaf illustration of a very handsome man on the cover. The book is sealed and can only be opened if the reader first kisses the man on the cover. The book contains many unique and interesting spells, but the book's magical influence slowly causes the reader to fall in love with the man on the cover, believing he is their one true love, edging out other relationships in their life.	[300]
(The title has long faded off this book)	Idra Vance	This book of spells always seems to have a variety of mushrooms growing on it; even when picked off or brushed away, the mushrooms always reappear the next time the reader looks at the book. Several of the pages are torn and some missing, but the book contains a number of spells, including one that can make rainstorms go away.	[301]
The Mouths of Madmen	Fin the Foul	This leather-bound book has a bookmark tassel attached to the spine, ending in a charm consisting of three human teeth. The book claims that the gibberish spouted by certain insane individuals is actually the speech of otherworldly entities attempting to communicate from somewhere beyond the known universe. The author claims that by forcibly removing these individual's teeth and using the resulting blood as a "trans-universal lubricant," the caster can communicate with these entities. Notably, the author was himself succumbed to madness and was sent to an asylum in his later years. Some believers in the book say this occurred because he succeeded in contacting the entities he sought.	[302]
The Red Collar	Calyx Cinsh	This black book features a cover illustration in red ink of two concentric rings, the inner ring half the width of the outer ring. The book describes the creation of a metallic collar forged out of red meteoric iron and welded shut around the caster's throat. The magic imbued in the collar sears it to the caster's flesh, but the book says the collar gives the caster the ability to command lesser beings and turn them into willing slaves. The book doesn't specify what these lesser beings are. Several of the rituals in the book reference an entity identified with the phrase "shi verato vask yllar." One translation of this phrase is "My Sightless Master."	[303]
The Stoss Mundragh Manuscripts	Anonymous	This collection of writings takes the form of 63 stiff paper cards, kept in a rectangular leather case. Each card is covered in writing on one side, with an inked eye pierced with thorns on the other. Each card details a spell or ritual, but casting the spells tends to cause intense eye pain, blurry vision, and even temporary blindness. The vision impairment usually fades a few hours later, but the caster becomes more susceptible the more they rely on spells from the deck of cards.	[304]
Beautiful Blossoms	Feremelda Ophric	This book features a deep red cover with an illustration of a flower with large black petals. The book details a method of creating a fertilizer from the clotted blood drained from dead bodies, mixed with various alchemical liquids. The author claims that flowers fed on the mixture grow especially large and fruitful, and their petals possess magical properties.	[305]
Wild	Aerior Valarestes	This book features an illustration of an elven hunter holding a bow and drawing an arrow. The book can be opened and read by anyone, but anyone without elven blood only sees a mundane description of various hunting expeditions. Those possessing elf blood, however, find a detailed and intricate description of elven hunting rites, particularly one in which the hunter tracks a stag without weapon, kills it with his teeth, and devours its organs fresh from the corpse. Once this is done, the book provides a ritual that allows the hunter to swallow the stag's spirit, gaining the ability to transform into a stag during the hours between dusk and dawn.	[306]
The Six Eyes of Yeenak	Gnash Scorrax	This ugly book is covered in human skin, the pages wrinkled and dirty and stained. Written by a gnoll sorcerer, the book describes a demon prince revered by gnolls that possesses six eyes, each of which sees a different version of the world. The book describes a method by which the reader can graft additional humanoid eyes, stolen from living victims, to their own face, and gain the ability to see as Yeenak does.	[307]
Liar's Tongue	Anonymous	This black book has a withered, dessicated human tongue nailed to its cover. The book recounts a fable similar to "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," except at the end, the boy is caught, tortured with boiling oil and hot pokers, and his tongue is cut from his mouth with a pair of sheep shears. The book then claims the tongue entered the possession of a magician (whose name is scrubbed entirely from the book), who used it as a focus in various spells. It is uncertain if the tongue nailed to the book is the same tongue featured in the story.	[308]
Eater of Rust	Fils Stillwater Rhein	This book's brown cover has no decoration or lettering. The book describes several potions that may be concocted using shavings of heavily rusted iron. The author claims these potions have a number of beneficial bodily effects, even providing protection from disease and aging. These claims are largely discounted by critics, but the book includes a number of notable spells, including one to instantly reduce a pound of iron to rusted scrap, and a spell to boil a potion without the need for an actual heat source.	[309]
Untouched Flesh: A Magical Wellspring	Vriska Rotmouth	This book explores the supposed usefulness of young virgins in magical rituals. The author analyzes several dozen young women she lured to her tower and trapped there, discussing them in a clinical, inhuman tone. To the author, the women are just "specimens." The author notes several experimental rituals performed both before and after the loss of virginity and records variances in the effects of the rituals. A small chapter is devoted to male virgins, but the author barely glosses over the subject.	[310]
The Complete Library of Esphatte	various authors	This book has a fine gold leaf cover. Each of the several hundred pages of the book possess no writing, but instead, an illustration of another book of magic. The reader can pluck the books off the page, upon which they become real and can be read. Few copies of this rare collection are known to exist, and its worth is beyond measure. Owners of the book are often cautious and wary, as they are regular targets of thieves who would steal this prize from them.	[311]
101 Ways to Cook an Ooze		Interesting recipes include gelatinous cube cocktail, ochre apple jelly, and salted pudding	[312]
Physiologies of Magical Creatures		Information on the biology of Beholders, Dragons, Unicorns, and more. Full of diagrams.	[313]
The Prophecies		Tales of great adventures. Partway through, all the pages become blank	[314]
How to Spot a Mimic		Tips such as listen for breathing, and see if it responds to being touched	[315]
Bordrick		Dwarven choose your own adventure book	[316]
Planeshifting		Details different ways to travel between different planes of existence	[317]
On Monstrous Races		Discusses whether monstrous races should or should not be allowed into society	[318]
The Outside		A self-written account by someone you know who saw a vision of them self as a small plastic figurine on a table surrounded by a number of god-like beings after they talked to a group of adventurers	[319]
Human?		Story about an ogre who, despite his incompetence, convinced everyone that he was actually a very tall human, became a king, then was discovered and beheaded.	[320]
Landmarks to Visit Before You Die		Details a number of landmarks and monuments in a country or city you have never heard of	[321]
The Hitchhiker		A book with not entirely inaccurate advice on ‘how to see the kingdom on less than 30 copper pieces a day’. The very first page contains only the words ‘Don’t Panic’ printed in large, friendly letters.	[322]
Incredible Creatures and How to Kill Them		Details weaknesses monsters are known to have. It is part of a five-volume set; the first volume is for beginners (level 1-4), the second for the somewhat experienced (level 5-8) and so on.	[323]
Magic for Dummies		Explains what magic is and how it works in the style of ‘___ for Dummies’ books. Does not teach one how to cast spells.	[324]
Wish It, Want It, Screw It		detailed accounts of times the Wish spell backfired horribly.	[325]
So Long, and Thanks for All the Ale		The story of Tarvish the dwarf, who had unpaid bar tabs worth a total of 10,000 gold all across the country before being arrested	[326]
Flumphs; the Pleasant Surprises of the Underdark		A journal accounting some time that a researcher spent living with a cloister of flumphs. The author documented at least once every day for a month	[327]
Taming the Beast		A perfect book for beginner beastmasters. Gives tips and tricks on how to win over wild creatures of all kinds. It starts with tiny creatures like frogs and crabs, followed by small creatures like eagles and fire beetles, medium creatures like giant badgers and giant frogs, large creatures like owlbears and bulettes, and finishes with huge creatures like elephants and some dinosaurs.	[328]
A Day in the Life of a Lemure		A beginner demon/devil researcher decided to start his studies on the weakest of all fiend kind, the lemure. After summoning a lemure in a remote location, he watched its behavior for a day. After gathering the information needed, the author had the hideous abomination placed within a special containment vessel, alongside the many empty ones that would house the many other fiends. At the end of the book lies a map to the research facility. If the party decides to go there, they will find out that the author finished doing research on an imp, manes, and dretch as well.	[329]
The Spider King		A fictional tale of an adventurer delving into the underdark to slay a fearsome giant spider.	[330]
The Bjernson Family Tree And Exploits		The family tree of a nordic clan with all the males named Bjern Bjernson. This book helps tell them apart.	[331]
Rosaline And Mercutio		A romantic tragedy by Bill Shaking-lance.	[332]
Pictures of Cats		A picture book full of photos of cats dressed in cute outfits and doing cute things. It’s about the size of an average dictionary.	[333]
I Can		A hefty guide of herbs, mushrooms and berries that surround the city where the book was found. It contains accurate annotations of the ailments due to consumption or touch, with descriptive drawings of people having diarrhea or throwing up.	[334]
Hit The Apple, Not My Face!		A Detailed Guide to Archery’ This book even includes instructions for constructing a simple bow and targets.	[335]
Baby Dragon Destroys the Village		A truly heartwarming children’s book.	[336]
AAARRGGHH!: A Barbarian		The writing is messy and misspelled, and some of the letters are are backwards. What’s more, the cover is splattered with blood on the bottom right corner, like someone was violently clobbered by the book.	[337]
The Three Little Goblins		Three goblins set off to build houses of wood, straw, and enchanted brick and start new lives, but the Big Bad Dire Wolf complicates things.	[338]
Claiming the Crown		An Experienced Guide to Assassinating Royals’ – How to brew a poison, how to create a disguise, tips on wielding daggers, and more!	[339]
The Banshees I Have Loved		A tragedy of five acts.	[340]
Phylomagenetics and the Herbalist		A primer for the professional and newcomer alike.	[341]
Population Dynamics of Cryptosaurs		A treatise on the ever-evolving age structures of dragons by region and plane.	[342]
Memoirs of a Goblin		A dramatic, often erotic, first-person biography of a female goblin groomed to be a concubine in an exotic land. The author is a male elf.	[343]
How to Win Friends and Enchant People		Despite the title, has nothing to do with magic, but it does have some good advice about how to make yourself seem more approachable.	[344]
The Dragon with a Girl Tattoo		A psychological mystery thriller about a detective who befriends a shapeshifted silver dragon with a dark past, to find a murderer before he strikes again.	[345]
To Kill a Manticore		There isn’t a single manticore in the entire book, it’s about a half-orc on trial for a crime he didn’t commit and the halfling lawyer who represents him.	[346]
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Adventurers		A self-help book with an optimistic view of the steps a person must take to succeed as an independent contractor with a sword.	[347]
Eat, Summon, Love		A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she joins a cult of necromancers to ‘find herself’. Based on a true story.	[348]
Bahamut Shrugged		An action-thriller written by one of the world’s most controversial philosophers, the novel is set in a dystopia where magic is tightly regulated and only Gon Jalt can liberate magic-users from the non-magical ‘parasites’, i.e. everyone else.	[349]
Cockatrice Soup for the Soul ‘ – This book is so commonplace, it		This book is so commonplace, it’s a cliche that in every house where a woman of a certain age lives, there will be at least one heavily-read copy of this book with it’s sappy stories and cloyingly sweet words of wisdom. It is beyond worthless.	[350]
The Origin of Magical Species		Full title: On the Origin of Magical Species by Means of Supernatural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, is considered to be the foundation of understanding of how magic has shaped the evolution of the natural world. Although the theories presented inside are accepted as fact by nearly all universities and centers of learning, some religions regard it as heretical and have asked to have it banned.	[351]
The Geographica Gelatinousa		101 Oozes and How to Avoid Them	[352]
My Life as a Human Being		A Dragon’s Observation on Humanoid Culture	[353]
Harold Haversham		At first it appears to be a beginners guide to crafting potions, however as the book progresses the author becomes more and more adamant that all ailments are purely mental. There is a detailed account in which the author was treating a man for a broken arm and healed it through weekly mental therapy sessions.	[354]
Wager like a Winner		A Goblins Guide to Gambling by Grey ‘Greedy’ Gradnok	[355]
The Wizard of Odds		Betting for Profit by B.M. Sawbuck	[356]
So You Want to be a …..series		Illustrated beginner guides to becoming a Wizard, Druid, Ranger etc for children.	[357]
The Potion Diaries		One Girl’s Intoxicating Adventures by Madame S. Ruth	[358]
Lost in Translation		The Art of the Scribe by Thoth Gardiner	[359]
Fitting a Square Peg Through a Round Hole: The curious mobility of oozes			[360]
Half Human, Half Horse, All Man		A defense of carnal relationships with beast races	[361]
Halfling Histories		An incomplete telling of the tales of the half-folk	[362]
The Orc’s Cookbook: 101 ways to prepare an elf		To make the hunt taste delicious	[363]
Every. Accomplished. Recognizable. Sentient. by Tommeltop the Gnome		An encyclopedia of anyone who accomplished anything of moderate note ever, however most of each page is dedicated to greatly exaggerated, suitably cringy and oddly romantic paragraphs about how great each person’s ears must have been. Any brave soul who actually reads the book through is suddenly able to recall in perfect detail the ears of anyone they’ve ever seen before,for no apparent reason. (Perhaps there are drawings and details of the pc’s and their ears as well)	[364]
The Cantrip-bury Tales			[365]
The Lord of the Rings		A historical fiction-esque set of books about an adventuring party ages ago in a material plane far, far away.	[366]
Names to Run Away From		A collection of monsters, plant, fungus, magical phenomenon and other miscellaneous ‘things’ that even the most accomplished – or desperate- of adventurers avoid – for they are easy to kill, but they are also a mighty pain in the behind and, even more importantly, in your wallet.	[367]
The Legend of Atlas		A collection of the all the known myths and legends in the world from the beginning of the written to the present.	[368]
Merfolk Companions		This book details how Merfolk capture and train seals as pets.	[369]
Forever and Always		The future predictions of a historian who lived two centuries ago. His predictions continue on for another four hundred years.	[370]
Prince of Reality		A philosophical book that tries to explain the true nature of reality.	[371]
The Common Woman’s Guide to Royalty		A guide on how every lady should act in society.	[372]
The Witch’s Guide to Home brew Potions		A series of tips on how to be the most successful witch you can be	[373]
Becoming a Paladin: A full guide to becoming the lawful good person you always hoped to be!		This thick volume even includes how to protect orphanages and the correct means of smiting your enemies.	[374]
Being Familiar With Your Familiar: The book for casters who wish to bond with their animal companions		A field guide to all common and some uncommonly seen familiars in the area.	[375]
New Technology: Summer Special Edition		This information source gives details on many new forms of technology, such as reinforced crossbows, iron hunting traps, and many, many magic items.	[376]
The Tao of Earth		Starts with philosophical musings about the importance of creation and stability over destruction and change. This book is written in an old dialect that most people (even magic users) have trouble reading. It occasionally goes on long-winded philosophical tangents.	[377]
The Tao of Water		Starts with a note: lava and water is basically the same thing! don’t try to use fire spells on it. If you fail to understand this basic, the Tao will forever escape you. This book is written in an old dialect that most people (even magic users) have trouble reading. It occasionally goes on long-winded philosophical tangents.	[378]
The Tao of Air		Starts with philosophical musings on how a fickle thing like air is needed for (long-lived) living creatures to breathe. There is a 5% chance of an ancient erotic letter being found loose inside. This book is written in an old dialect that most people (even magic users) have trouble reading. It occasionally goes on long-winded philosophical tangents.	[379]
The Tao of Fire		Starts with a strict warning to master at least one of the other 3 elemental books first, because while many people think playing with fire is fun, it’s not worth dying over. This book is written in an old dialect that most people (even magic users) have trouble reading. It occasionally goes on long-winded philosophical tangents.	[380]
The Tao of Life		This volume is the thickest, but somehow the least complete; it contains many anatomical diagrams, as well as several normative references to The Tao of Death. This book is written in an old dialect that most people (even magic users) have trouble reading. It occasionally goes on long-winded philosophical tangents.	[381]
The Tao of Death		This volume is missing from most sets after a book-burning campaign, but its existence is well known. This book is written in an old dialect that most people (even magic users) have trouble reading. It occasionally goes on long-winded philosophical tangents.	[382]
The Tao of Secrets		The existence of this volume is not widely known, and its veracity is debated among scholars; all claimed copies of this volume appear to consist entirely of blank pages, which nobody has ever manage to cast a spell to extract the information out of – thus suspicions that they’re fake. But they do appear to be just as old as the other volumes …	[383]
Lolthlita			[384]
Fifty Shades of Drow		Part history and part fan fiction starring Lolth.	[385]
The Summoning of Dragons		A Celestial’s guide to the methods and dangers of calling on the great reptiles.	[386]
Untitled		this book contains no text, and has a small hole cut into the pages which contains something of value (coins, a key, etc.)	[387]
Keeper of the Keys		Whenever a creature reads this book, they slowly fall asleep then ‘awaken’ inside the book (their body remains in the real world). Living inside of the book is a half-man, half-dog extraplanar being who owns a copy of every key in existence, and whose only entertainment is reading books, but several of the books available for him to read are unfinished close to their ending. The party can enter the incomplete books to finish their stories (incomplete books could be a story of a great battle, a story where an assassin must be chased down, or something similar), and should they finish all of the stories given to them to complete, the Keeper of the Keys shall give them a key. Should they die inside of a book, a person will simply be ejected from it, rather than die outright.	[388]
Gnome means Gnome		A beginner’s guide to understanding the differences between the shorter races of the realm.	[389]
Sparing?		An orc bandit slowly goes from blood raging pillager to being a member of society. A heartwarming tale of death, destruction, and love.	[390]
Deck of Limiting Things		A collection of possibly true tales about people who used the deck of many things and the chaos that followed.	[391]
The Art of Procrastination and How to Perfect it		A book filled with scribbles. It is only halfway finished	[392]
Forging for Dummies		A book on how to forge weapons and tools, writen by a dwarf as a gift to his human pupil.	[393]
Diamonds in the rough		A book on soul gems and their proper creation.	[394]
The very hungry Chimera		A children’s book detailing the complicated diet of a magical monster. It ends with the chimaera eating an adventuring party and falling asleep.	[395]
Guinness		A book crafted over a lifetime by an adventurer named Guinness. It contains accomplishments such as ‘Worlds largest dragon’ ‘Longest time spent in a beholders lair’, ‘Fattest goblinoid’ And ‘Most monstrosities slain in a day	[396]
How to capture your princess		A collection of dating tips, advices and tricks, written by, for, and to men. Use it at your own risk!	[397]
Backstage		Detailing the more mundane dangers of the adventuring life, like insufficient supplies, inappropriate gear, public reactions, illnesses and the common lack of money – with tips and advices how to prevent them (the second edition have humorous footnotes from the author).	[398]
You and Evil		A promotional(?) book from the Nine Hells. Details most of the pros and cons to working for the infernal realm, with useful notes on the ‘gray zones’. May cause surveillance by the temples of good.	[399]
Personal Care for Adventurers		Tells adventurers how to maintain a clean, healthy look after weeks in the wilderness.	[400]
Berries and You		Informs the reader on edible and inedible berries found in the wild.	[401]
Castle Architecture		A book about how castles and the like are constructed.	[402]
Bardic Legends From Far Away Lands		A book about legends often sung or performed by bards.	[403]
How To Waste Good Paper		The pages inside this book are beautifully designed with colorful trim and a flowery layout. Other than the title, however, this book has no content in its pages. (Detect Magic: It is a spellbook written with magical invisible ink (or runes, etchings, message, mark, whatever) detailing only one spell to learn: Detect Magic)	[404]
Everyday Lives		A compilation of the contents of journals which were obtained from ordinary people.	[405]
vatar: The Last Airbender		A 3 volume set of books in which a young elemental monk learns to harness his his power so that he may bring peace to a hundreds years war.	[406]
Tic-Tic-Twang		A detailed guide for creating clockworks, golems, animated items, and traps, rather easily. Restricted in most kingdoms, as its too valuble to outright ban and destroy its knowledge, despite the widespread collaterral damage after its first releases. The bounty for the authors is still valid.	[407]
Magic in the House		The legacy of an archmage suffering from an obsession about cleanliness. Explains how to use the different schools of magic to help with the chores around your home. Apprentices around the world curse whoever thought its good for thier training that they need to do those chores manually.	[408]
Gary's Guide to Gathering Gold		A story about how some guy named Gary wrote a role-playing game called ‘Fiends and Fortresses’ and made millions of gold selling thousands of copies.	[409]
Fiends and Fortresses – Player’s Handbook		Player’s Handbook’ – A book on how the play the popular role-playing game ‘Fiends and Fortresses’, where players roll dice to fight fantastical creatures and adventure through fortresses while someone designated a ‘Fortress Master’ tells a story.	[410]
Fiends and Fortresses – Fortress Master’s Guide		Fortress Master’s Guide’ – A book on how to lead players through a story and gameplay in the popular role-playing game ‘Fiends and Fortresses’	[411]
Aelfrein’s Great Book of Dragons			[412]
The Chronicle of Og			[413]
Of Kings and Knights			[414]
The Flora and Fauna of Derindor			[415]
The Saga of Linea			[416]
Catalog of Cultivated Seeds			[417]
The Tale of Queen Elien and Her Jester			[418]
Teran’s Great Voyage			[419]
The Book of Fire			[420]
The Weeping Princess			[421]
Dwarven Stone Carving			[422]
Lowmer’s Crown			[423]
On Feasting			[424]
Fren’s Guide to Ship Building			[425]
Animal Husbandry in the First Age			[426]
The Black Book of Understone			[427]
The Book of Ice			[428]
The Fish of the Northern Lakes			[429]
The Voyage of Keyel			[430]
The War of Uncounted Woes			[431]
Goblin’s of Hinterlode			[432]
Studies of Water Fowl			[433]
Frogs and Toads of the South Wetlands			[434]
Alchemist’s Guide to Transmuting			[435]
Halfling Death Rites			[436]
Southern Flowers and Their Uses			[437]
Evening Prayers			[438]
Swords: A Study			[439]
The Art of Fletching			[440]
The Confounding Speech of the Soutwards			[441]
The Chronicles of the South			[442]
Low Magic			[443]
Concerning Herbs			[444]
Swordsmanship: A Guide for Novices			[445]
Sacred Days			[446]
The Lost World of the Dead			[447]
The Blue Book of the Ages			[448]
On Raising Goats			[449]
The Study of Magic			[450]
Rare Plants			[451]
Illustrated Dragons of the North			[452]
The Forging of Wrathgor			[453]
Trevelyan’s Fairytales			[454]
An Examination of Farming in the Logon			[455]
On Constructing Fortifications			[456]
The Book of Blood			[457]
On Fasting			[458]
Halfling Pipeweed: An Investigation			[459]
Manners and Etiquette of the Court			[460]
The Burning of Gladwin			[461]
The Blood of Grapes: Oenological Studies			[462]
Hymns of Old			[463]
The Principles of Archery			[464]
The Tragedies of Sela			[465]
The Book of Water			[466]
The Art of Dwarvish Metal Smithing			[467]
On Governing			[468]
The Book of Shadow			[469]
The Reign of Queen Shealyn			[470]
The First Principles of Law			[471]
The Book of Cloud			[472]
Forest Gnomes: The Untold History			[473]
Swamp Beasts and Other Swimming Oddities			[474]
Long Grasses: Cultivation and Uses			[475]
Human Anatomy			[476]
A Practical Guide to the art of Wrestling			[477]
The Prayer Book of Gii			[478]
Dwarven Physiology			[479]
Working the Soil			[480]
Legends of the Mountains			[481]
Twelve Plays			[482]
Barehanded Fighting: Strategies and Tactics			[483]
Mount Karras and Its Environs			[484]
The Account the Kin-Slaying at Tor			[485]
Folk Songs for Children			[486]
The Account of Tirgil’s Great Leap			[487]
Coin of the Realm: Thoughts on Monetary Policies			[488]
Phases of the Moon			[489]
When Kings Fall			[490]
Spices: Near and Far			[491]
Foreboding Visions: An Anthology of Demonic Poetry			[492]
Schools of Philosophy Among the High Elves			[493]
On Giants and Their Kin			[494]
The Galakon Forest			[495]
Sacheverell’s Misfortune			[496]
Medicinal Roots and Where to Find Them			[497]
The Far Travels of Ambrose			[498]
The Shadows of Stars			[499]
Fairfor’s Guide to Fairy Folk			[500]
Music from the Erilon Period			[501]
The Book of Stone			[502]
The Elder Days			[503]
Burial Practices of the Elves			[504]
Imps, Trolls, and Devils: A Guide to Any Encounter with Fiendish Foes			[505]
King of the Dragons			[506]
Lost Languages			[507]
Orcs and Diplomacy			[508]
Concerning the Folklore of the Kiraloft Vale			[509]
The Book of Wind			[510]
The Red Book of Westmarch			[511]

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 == Plot Hooks ==
-=== Adaptation of [https://dungeonmagazineguide.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/dungeon-magazine-009.pdf The Library of Ferrantia] ===
+=== The Library Caper ===
-;Act 0, Evil prepares: Miners break into the library subbasement utterly by accident by mining from the [[Adams Marble Quarry]].  They are directed in this effort by [[The Dark Wizard]] posing as Sam Tick, a mining expert, who is prevented by barrier enchantments at Ilvermorny from stepping onto the property.
-;Act 1, Establishing shot: air of mischief and excitement as Ellen and her friends sneak into the library one night their first week at school.
-;Act 2, Something bad happens: the kids soon find the librarian, [[Paige Turner]], injured and unconscious on the library floor and they hear the sounds of the miners recounting how the books must be incredibly valuable on the black market.
-;Act 3, Enter the hero: Ellen faces the choice of what to do.
-;Act 4, Commitment: the Dark Wizard and his henchmen become aware of Ellen and her friends’ initial response to the situation and try to trap them in the library so they can quietly subdue the kids while stealing magizoology books.
-;Act 5, Pursue initial/obvious goal despite complications: Ellen and her crew must evade, foil, or thwart several mundane miners and a very powerful, increasingly evil wizard.
-;Act 6, Reversal: All seems lost for a long dark moment because the bad guy manages to ___________. Perfect moment for a little help from a little friend.
+{{:Library Caper}}
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