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Sod The Maimed God [Reading like a strange cross between a warped confession and a manifesto, this text was written by a paladin who broke his oath of justice and celibacy to Tyr. After years of devotion, it seems the man grew very sullen with the state of his life. People did not like his religious ardour, not the ard...
User:Sky/MiscItemPageDebug/TAE1 Great Dukes and Duchesses, Lords and Ladies, and all who seek knowledge of the world: welcome! I have travelled far, seen much, and recorded all. My odyssey began in a humble tavern, where I met a Rashemi mercenary. An approachable fellow, he offered me a tale in exchange for a drink. I ...
Skeletons in Patriar Closets Valuation Assessment of Patriar Dossiers Compiled Confidentially by Saer Uktar, Guild Bursar Esteemed Mother Superior - This peerless collection is clearly the fruit of many years' intelligence work, and speaking professionally, I found reviewing it to be personally rewarding. It would also...
Simple Poison Recipe I have long wondered about whether to publish any malevolent concoctions I have encountered. Nikros convinced me with that damnable smile of his. But it is true that the life of an adventurer can be made safer through a good offence. Please use this recipe responsibly, and do not cause any harm to ...
Shipment Ledger Firstday: Received from House of Wonders - machined arm pistons, six (6) Twosday: Shipped to Iron Throne - pump valve fittings, three (3), via Submersible from private dock Fourthday: Received from Felogyr's Fireworks - refined smokepowder casks, seven (7) Sevenday: Received from Hall of Wonders - G-cub...
Shield Steward Interrogation Log Transcript of key passage in the interrogation of Flovus Nuge, steward of the Knights of the Shield Hall Black Hand - When did you begin to suspect that Duke Stelmane was not herself? Nuge - I cleared her dinner dishes after a meal of mutton pie, but when I got the dish up to the kitche...
Sharran's Journal Day 1: Never saw a beast like it. Bloated with muscle, tusks as long as my arms. Scent of charred flesh, but I saw no flames. The stone might have been parchment, so quick did the creature charge through it. The other Justiciars are dead - or close to it. It wasn't alone. Hellknights, too. Masks bolte...
Sharran Registry THE LADY'S WORSHIPPERS A registry of proud followers, recruited by Her loyal paladin, Ketheric Thorm. [Pages upon pages of names fill this book. Some are only nicknames; others consist of multiple noble titles; all of them are scratched out and annotated with 'no longer'.]
Sharess' Caress Finances Sharess' Caress Finances Spendings: - Twenty Casks of Gulthmeran Reserve: 200 Gold. - Ten Casks of Happy Gnome Brew: 100 Gold. - Ten Casks of Higher Spirits: 300 Gold. - Groceries and Butcher: 500 Gold. - Massage oil: 50 Gold. - Leather treatment: 10 Gold. - Marie's 'No Consequences' Oil: 50 Go...
Shanties for the Bitch Queen And we all row! With the spray upon our necks, And we all row! With the spray upon our backs And we all row! With the sea beneath our feet, And the Bitch Queen stays the storm. --- Wavemother, wavemother, Lash us to the prow. We ask to sail your skirt if you allow. Sink us if you will. Our ...
Selûnite Prayer Book Threads of Silver Dearest Selûne, our fair maiden, Weave our hearts with threads of silver, Guide us with light of the moon, And quench us with the purest of tears. Shadows taunt us. Hear our prayer! Shadows stalk us. Hear our prayer! Shadows wound us. Hear our prayer! Selûne, thou with radiam loom...
Selûnite Journal [Most of the pages in this aged journal have been hastily torn out, perhaps for kindling.] Thus the interlocking circles will bring the full moons to match the stars, while casting darkness where it belongs at the bottom. That chasm to the Underdark will stay sealed. I confess the design is not foolpro...
Selûne's Devotee [This diary records the life of John Meadowlin. He suffered from lycanthropy, becoming a werebear at the advent of the full moon. Cured of his condition by a priestess of Selûne, John Meadowlin exchanged his claws for a greatsword and a cause: he would keep this priestess (her name was Erlona) safe fro...
Secrets of the Talis The best way to begin to interpret your talis deck is by getting to know it as you would a person - one exceptionally long-lived and wise. The more time you spend in close observation of your deck, the more its arcana will philter in and and out you like air. it's not for the deck to reveal itself ...
Secret Societies of the Sword Coast: Exposed Harpers The most well-known of the Sword Coasts' cabals, perhaps, but certainly not benign in its shrouded doings. My sources claim that those belonging to this mysterious faction abhor power, but if that is so, why do they not expose the revelations of their inquiries for t...
Scrappy Order Book [Several loose scraps of paper have been stuck together, forming a haphazard order sheet] Wrinkled Tom - Three copies of 'An Apple for my Mistress' by Lenape Glinn. To fit within a child's carry case. Fingle Wort - 'The Eye of the Beholder' by Promividus. To be sealed with highly flammmable (sic) res...
Scrapbook of Love Letters [This salt-stained scrapbook contains a dozen envelopes glued to its inner pages. Perhaps these envelopes once contained letters, but now all are gone but two.] [Letter 1, To Winky] Oh, Winky, how I long to be away with you on the open seas, away from that grim old Flood Tide, away where I can...
Scrapbook of Letters [A collection of letters between two correspondents, but all written in an unfamiliar code or cipher. At the end of the scrapbook is a sheet titled 'Plaintext Deciphered by G'.] Chosen of Bhaal - Your proposal is intriguing. Tell me more about the Crown of Karsus. Chosen of Bane - It was created to...
Scorching Street - A Flaming Fist Ruleset [The more formal rules governing the street patrol etiquette of the Flaming Fist here have been scribbled out. Below, a single paragraph, written in a rough, almost petulant hand:] Here's the thing. This city's a garden, and the mean weeds choke it out all day, every day. Right...
Scorched Book [A barely-legible journal, the pages marred by scorch-marks and blood.] …latest score… belonged to Enver Gortash…tried to lay low with Skorval’s crew, but he’s lost it. Lumped in with his cult – says Gortash will find us wherever we go. Sarin knows a place in the sewers. Sarin’s not acting right. She’s hi...
Schools of Magic: Transmutation Mutability is the essence of life itself; all is ever-changing, growing and shrinking, building and breaking down. The devotee to the School of Transmutation learns to wield the raw material of life into desired forms. Key terms: Change, exchange, alchemy Key concepts: Altering, Prestidi...
Schools of Magic: Necromancy No school of magic has been more maligned than that of Necromancy. Often believed to be the school of sadists, the School of Necromancy rather explores the balance between the animating force of life and the destruction of death. As with any magic, necromancy seeks to manipulate natural for...
Schools of Magic: Illusion All is what it seems - or is it? The School of Illusion posits that reality can be re-created and re-made according to the whims of the practitioner, bringing intention and will to our chaotic world. Key terms: Deceive, convince, pretend, believe Key concepts: Invisibility, Shadows, Illusion,...
Schools of Magic: Evocation This world of ours is rife with incredible power - the boom-clap of lightning and thunder, the cycle of life and death inherent to flame, the flash of illumination in a ray of light. The devotee to the School of Evocation dances among this power, guiding it with their own will. Key terms: El...
Schools of Magic: Enchantment What is the world but a curtain-framed show of villains, heroes, steeds and royals? And who directs them where to gambol, when to pounce? The School of Enchantment offers its services as director of the cosmic farce. Key terms: Enticement, beguilement, manipulation Key concepts: Encode, Co...
Schools of Magic: Divination The future is unknown; the present is mysterious; the past is gone forever. But for those devotees of the School of Divination, the veil of unknowability surrounding our world entire is thinnest. Key terms: Seek, know, discover, perceive Key concepts: Seeing, Comprehending, Guiding, Detecti...
Schools of Magic: Conjuration The eternal invitation, the 'yes' to abjuration's 'no' - the School of Conjuration is the mage's mighty beckoning to the wonders our world has to offer. Key terms: Create, summon, invite, teleport Key concepts: Transportation, Summoning, Producing, Finding
Schools of Magic: Abjuration Creation and destruction, aye, they have their place - but what of prevention entire? The School of Abjuration is the great full stop, the 'no' that meets the caster at the end of any phrase. Key terms: Banish, prevent, safeguard, stop short Key concepts: Wards, Counterspells, Dispellations...
Schematics for Subsurface Vessel [A schematic drawing of a metallic passenger submersible spans the many folding pages within this book. The bottom-right of each page is watermarked with a representation of the Gondian House of Wonders.]
Schematic Compendium [This portfolio notebook is stuffed with page after page of diagrams and schematics, recognisable as Gondian designs for magically enhanced mechanisms, but amended and expanded by notes in Gortash's precise handwriting, with emendations such as infernal 'hellfire' power sources, illithid synapse-ca...
Scaled Scions of Abeir [Excerpt from Scaled Scions of Abeir by Cosomel Ixithir] Common misconceptions about dragonborn abound, including the falsehood that they are the result of breeding between dragons and non-dragonic species. Dragonborn are their own distinct phenomenon, hailing from the twin-planet of Toril, Abeir...
Sarevok Anchev: A Study in Suffering [A transcription of a sermon given in Baldur's Gate in 1368DR.] Bhaal can teach us about suffering. Please, hold your gasps, patient flock. I assure you there's a point to this unorthodox subject matter. I'm sure you've heard the gathering rumours about the recently deposed Grand Du...
Runepowder and the Modern Gnome This extremely wordy treatise supposes about the possibility of recreating runepowder, the mythical explosive documented in gnomish legends.] I ask my most renervated and prodigiously talented audience to suppose the following: Runepowder as we know of it may no longer exist at our parti...
Rules for Elfsong Customers Tavern Rules - Cash Only, Pay at the Bar - No Solicitation of Paid Intimacy - No Spitting on the Floor or Walls - No Conjuration or Summoning from Other Planes - No Fighting in the Elfsong - Take it Outside - No Undead or Ghosts - We Have Our Own
Rives' Failures as a Banite Hahns Rives! Calls himself a Banite when he's a disgrace to the Tyranny Lord! A Black Gauntlet - Rives? What a joke! I should be the Black Gauntlet of the Foundry Lab Level. In fact, I'm going to compile a list of Rives' shortcomings for the Overseers. Then they'll see. These are just from t...
Ribald Shanties for the Discerning Whoreson A collection of bawdy tavern songs, each one more grimed in filth and innuendo than the last. One of them, Birthday on the Bilgerat, is such horrifying material that any decent person would burn this book right now. The cleanest verse is: The first mate's cock stood like the ...
Research Notes (Waning Moon) *Research notes. They describe a powerful venom extracted from a rare purple worm. Distiller Thisobald Thorm sought to create a fatal poison using the worm's gullet.* *He procured several parts of a worm gullet, but rinsed one in error. The poison he brewed was noxious - but not fatal.* *Th...
Research Notes (House of Healing) Spell: Remove Shadow Curse - possible? Variant on Remove Curse / Dispel Magic / other? Recitation: Umbra Recessit - Ineffective Nox Exitus - Ineffective Nox Fit Lux - Potential Nox Finio - Potential Vita In Umbra - Ineffective Vita Cava - UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES (LIVING ARMOUR) Gesture...
Research Notes (Balthazar) I have redirected some materials from beneath the tower. I planned to simply raise what forces I need inside the mausoleum itself, but the General prefers that no more of his family crypts be disturbed. Even so, I may have no choice. The temple will not surrender the Nightsong easily - and th...
Registry of Citizens' Complaints - Lodged by an anonymous elf who declined to give address. Reports of suspicious characters hanging around the manor Philgrave. - Logged by Eloise Thurman, resident of Brampton. Reports neighbours making house calls late at tnight, failing to make offering at shrine of Umberlee. Claims ...
Register of Temple Deadspeakers A death will often cause, or in turn be caused by, an imbalance of suffering. On such occasions a priest must commune with the spirit to see if they can address their imbalance. Please list your trained temple deadspeakers below. DEADSPEAKERS OF THE OPEN HAND TEMPLE - Lashbearer Catrine ...
Register of Goods Received [An inventory of goods passing through the Guildhall, ranging from basic food items to exotic alchemical blends of indeterminate purpose. Entries from the past tenday grow increasingly thin, underscored by a note scrawled in the margins:] Stone Lord hitting supply depots. Advise winding down ...
Regarding the Slayer Even though this child of Bhaal has thus far been squandering the gift of their unholy blood, it seems that Bhaal's lash is inescapable. The graven God now has besiged them with the Slayer, the beast and prophet. And when they turn, their mind is broken, more broken than all my torments could ever ...
Refugee's Journal [A tiefling's journal charting the journey from Elturel, to the Emerald Enclave, and now on the road to Baldur's Gate.] The ox just up and died. It started choking out of nowhere, then keeled over. We tried to pull the cart, but the ox knocked the wheel off when it went down, and the thing is in splin...
Refugee Arrival Record [A record, maintained by the Flaming Fists, of refugees arriving in Rivington in the last tenday. The number increases in each of the previous five days - clearly, the town outside Wrym's Crossing will be unable to accommodate all of them. Some of the names on the list are: - Zindra Manne - Tinke...
Reflections Upon the Mirror of Loss The original purpose of the sacred mirror has been lost to the ages. Some suppose that it was the result of Telamont Tanthul’s attempts to delve into the Shadowfell itself, in the time before the folly of his master, Karsus. Others claim it only became an object of devotion after the...
Reflections of a Gullible Prick [This stained tome records a long and arduous journey.] I hoofed it to Baldur's Gate based on a gods-damned promise. 'They'll welcome you with open arms', my cousins said. 'Everyone has a home in the Gate!' Seventeen days I marched. Seventeen days of their whining toddlers and their piss...
Redhammer's Journal Blast and curse that Gortash for making this job so juicy I couldn't turn it down! How could I refuse the opportunity to build the Cap from those Gondian plans - making Redhammer's signature improvements as I went along, of course! But this is far worse than just a smuggling job - I suspect there's ...
Recruiting Gnolls Though gnolls verge upon being brute beasts who cannot follow orders couched in even the simplest terms, they can fulfil one important role in an army such as the one we are building: that of vanguard shock troops. Howling gnoll berserkers can be sent ahead in frontal assault to absorb defenders' spel...
Record of Complaints [A dust-covered tome of complaints to the Dawnmaster.] Who allowed a pilgrim to pay for wine with a cat? And what sort of cat even is it?! One of my novices told me they saw it grow to the size of a humongous hound. That was moments before it attacked. The poor novice didn't stop trembling for a te...
Reconciling the Jealous Heart [A self-help tome, claiming to help those prone to jealousy.] Do you covet what others have, while neglecting what you already lay claim to? Does your desire for more curdle into a mire of self-pity? You must prise yourself from the fetid swamp of jealousy, before it drowns you. Think not ...
Recipe of Wyvern Toxin [This Alchemical Recipe book from the unfortunate scaleless dragonborn Haskinn Xhesilaphin is written with a messy and grotesquely gleeful scrawl. In this edited edition punctuation has been inserted out of respect for the mastter of Alchemy. To the reader, we the editors wish to communicate that...
Recipe of Elixir of Necrotic Resistance Good day today - unexpectedly so. My condition is like this. I get a tenday of my scaleless flesh atrophying from time to time. Results in a day where the pain is actually bearable. I imagine the worst cancers are the same. Some days could almost fool you into believing you're he...
Recipe of Elixir of Darkvision Amongst a party of grave adventurers was one human. This was only a few hours ago. The human wore the most moronic grin, I mean deeply, almost inconsiderately stupid. Our encounter ran thus: Me: So you'd like to follow your friends here into, what was it? The Crypt of Utter and Complete D...
Recipe of Elixir of Arcane Cultivation [Though the book is mildewed and covered with what seems to be imprints of animal guts, one recipe in particular is still legible.] There is joy in helping others that I never knew. While I myself have never had any talent for manipulating the weave directly, I cannot get the look...
Recipe of Drow Poison [This entry from the master of Alchemy, Haskinn Xhesilaphin, begins with the formula for Drow Poison:] Combine Essence of Swarming Toadstool with any Salts, and lo, you'll have yourself a dose of Drow Poison as dark as the Goddess Lolth's temper. Time was I would grimace at the prospect of poison....
Raphael's Diary - Chapter 3 [The final chapter from a diary penned in Raphael's hand. Here and there his composed hand stiffens and moves erratically, as if he were by times seized by emotion both powerful and unexpected] The plot thickens goes the aphorism - entirely inadequate. The plot mutates. It fluctuates. I have...
Raphael's Diary - Chapter 2 [A chapter from a diary penned in Raphael's steady, imperious scrawl] Last night I dreamt of a river. Waist-deep I waded it. Rusted hooks curled up from the water like the snaggled teeth of something ancient and diseased and submerged. The moon over the water cracked and fire flew out on the...
Raphael's Diary - Chapter 1 [A chapter from a diary penned in Raphael's sybaritic hand]. While I have (over many a sumptuous season) cast the net of my contractual predilections both far and wide, never have I been so attracted to mortals as I am to those infested by the tadpole. These particular fish find themselves s...
Ramazith (book) Hailed by Volo as the Sage Extraordinaire, and by many grumbling parents of impressionable young women as a bloody nuisance, Ramazith Flamesinger was a wizard of great renown. Living in Baldur's Gate, this figure went missing some time ago. It was rumoured that he grew romantically involved with a nymph...
Ragged Diary Fool me to think I'd fare better than the other treasure hunters in this gods-cursed wasteland - but the promise of a cursed beast as a trophy was a temptation I couldn't leave behind. Bloody Needle Blights took me by surprise, though I'm not sure how. How could I have expected anything less? It's all so m...
Queen of Ravens [Highlighted from the other chapters in this work by gorgeous little pictures and artistic renditions of the events described, you can read the following:] In that time of shattered allegiances between elven Gods, and with the adulation of the shadar-kai elves in her pocket, the woman bid her followers ...
Queen of Kingpins [Seems like the Flaming Fist mercenary company has compiled a great deal of information on Nine Fingers and her crew, known as the 'Guild'. Some heavy named Tusgront guarding some entrance the Fist are intrigued by, in fact a very detailed account of the Guild's muscle, and, you note, a tide of derisi...
Provender Ledger [A ledger listing and tracking inventory of goods in regular use at the Szarr Palace, with categories for food and drink for servants and 'guests'; cleaning supplies, including alchemical bloodstain remover from Bonecloaks'; opaque heavy curtains; candles of different sizes in yellow tallow and red and...
Profiling Methods [This insidious and frightening book includes many tips for profiling prospective (and apparently doubtlessly active) criminals. It is a lesson in abject, narrow-minded stupidity, and has probably resulted in more confusion and ill-favoured bedlam than any actually warranted arrests.]
Prisoner's Journal You hear things down here. Things from people with nothing left to lose. No more secrets to keep. You hear that Ketheric's untouchable - except he isn't really. That he's got some relic or other in the mausoleum. A link - that's what you hear. And you hear that the link can be severed. You hear thing...
Prison Log Records of Prisoners Charged Before the People of Baldur's Gate Memorandum from the Honourable Lord Enver Gortash: Let no prisoner be released from neither their cell nor Wyrm's Rock proper without my explicit consent. Presume every detainee an Absolutist spy until they provide me substantial evidence to t...
Primer on Calimshan [A primer on the local Calimsham dialects covered in clumsy notes.] You want to stroll down Calimport's bustling streets, duck down a brada alleyway and breathe in the smell of asarth from the kitchenbacks? Want to be nodded to in respect as an alimarifi by the locals? Well, read on, noble traveller...
Prayers of Repent [A book full of furtive prayers for forgiveness to the Crying God. It smells musty, as if kept underground for a long time.] Lord Ilmater, I beseech you look upon me and behold my sin. Let it stand before your infinite patience and balk in its presence - for while I am weak, you stand mighty. Let me b...
Potion of Mind Reading Recipe I've only just come back to myself. The pain radiating from my jaw, scaleless body to my very bones left me entirely unable to sleep. By night five of ineffective treatment and total consciousness I began to grow very... I feel the word 'paranoid' doesn't quite cover the depths of that s...
Potion of Healing Recipe This small recipe has helped me through a lot. Without my scales, my hide smarts and tears with the slightest touch. While it has never healed me fully, every drop soothes. I hope it might similarly soothe whatever ails you. [Someone has filled the rest of this page with repetitions of 'WHY IS ...
Potion of Animal Speaking Recipe This recipe I discovered entirely by mistake. It turned out to be my greatest breakthrough in the search for a cure to growing new scales - after imbibing the errant potion, I heard one of the magpies brag about a beautiful platinum scale it had found. The scale itself is one of the mos...
Potion Catalogue D Diminution, Potion of Death, Liquid Deep Sleep, Potion of Darling Visage, Potion of [Editor's Note: A temperamental new concoction, not yet entered into standard usage]
Post-House Dog's Log [This log of courier hounds is matted with dried saliva and dog hair.] Bolworth - No fleas, lots of knotting though - Coat matted - Breath smells - BIG bark still - Good boy SNEE - good girl as always - No coat matting - Scratches occasionally (note: check for fleas later) SCRATCH - Still gone - Mi...
Post House Delivery Complaints [A log missing deliveries, turned to the most recent page.] Arbuckle Nit - broadsheet delivery never arrived - mildly irked Mungo Frigglebottom - Eltorchul Academy tuition fees notices - would prefer these letters 'stay lost' Mystic Carrion - funeral invitations - 'won't be caught dead us...
Plea of Rest [An hastily scrawled and slightly damp Plea of Rest, requesting to be freed of Ilmater's service for the duration of a tenday, as the writer mourns Father Lorgan.]
Perfumed Days, Passionate Nights [A lavender-scented diary of florid prose that describes Lady Wisteria Jannath's brief but torrid affair with a young scapegrace named Enver Gortash. A typical excerpt reads as below.] 'When he held me in his burly yet tender arms, it was as if the years melted away and I was once again...
Peer Review We are pleased to inform you that your thesis on the 'Study on the Representation of Deep Gnomes in Mid-Century Drow Literature' has been approved for publication pending the below changes. -The Society of Brilliance. [Thirty-six pages of annotations follow.]
Patriars, A Homegrown Aristocracy [Reading like an extremely brave (or suicidal) act of journalism, this scathing takedown of the Baldurian upper crust decries each house, from the Caldwells who jealously hoard patronage of the city's art museums, to the Irlentrees whose merchant fleet floats swift and immense across t...
Patriars Journal [The minutes of the most recent meeting of Baldur's Gate's Parliament of peers. It includes a full roll call and a single proposal for consideration, including the naming of Gortash as Archduke of Baldur's Gate.] Yeas: 22 Nays: 0 Abstained: 1 Resolved: The Parliament of Peers declares its intention to ...
Patients' Registry [This exhaustive log lists each and every patient to have sought healing in Reithwin, along with their ailments. The minor injuries and common diseases of the early pages give way to critical wounds and deep lacerations - the repercussions of battle. Several unbound scrolls have been slid among the f...
Patient Log: Duke Belynne Stelmane [A journal stamped with the official seal of Duke Belynne Stelmane. It appears to be an attendant's log of the care given during the Duke's ongoing illness. The most recent entries detail a deterioration in the Duke's condition.] Can't explain the relapse. Duke lacks appetite, awarene...
Passage of Penitence [A common religious passage often recited as a funeral blessing.] Lathander to light, Selûne to guide, Kelemvor to judge, and passage provide. [A new passage takes over, adding to the common refrain a darker verse.] For those who yet live, Unworthy in guilt, No god's light shall find, What hell the...
Park Keeper's Journal [A park keeper's journal, mostly filled with notes on botany and plant care. One aside in the margin notes that some suspicious characters have been frequenting the park of late. The keeper wonders if perhaps he should report this to the Flaming Fists.]
Pandirna's Diary Dear Almara, I feel stupid doing this, but I don't have anyone else. I hate how useless and scared I feel. I hate that you're not here to make me laugh. To tease me for being a grump. To make me feel strong. Why did you have to die? I can't let it happen - not again. Not to the others. It's on me to pr...
Overlapping Lines [This publication describes itself in the introduction.] ‘A semiannual magazine of drawings and tales telling stories of famed heroes of Baldur’s Gate by their admirers, open to submissions from the public.’
Out of the Sausage Tube Into The Shadow Shadow creature transformation is like this: I am standing in a tunnel with one way leading into light and the other leading into darkness. The tunnel glistens and stinks like a tube of rancid sausage. Everything slick with slime. I've got to get out of here. I know I do. But whi...
Our Enemies' Fate Here lies Flaming Fist Manip Antyra Thorpe, who thought to interfere with an unholy ritual murder in Harbourview Park. Her body will lie here until every scrap of flesh has been picked clean by corpse beetles. Thus shall we serve all who meddle in the bloody business of Bhaal.
Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part Two: Sacrifice [This stone disc has githyanki runes carved into it. Below them is drawn a translation into the common tongue.] The Prince of the Comet, Orpheus himself, led his Honour Guard into battle. Their red dragons bellowed with righteous anger, and the heavens erupted. The glor...
Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part Three: Resurrection The histories tell us that Commander Voss, Jhe'stil Kith'rak, pierced Prince Orpheus clean through with his sword of silver. That his flesh was torn and fed to the great red dragon Ephelomon. Vlaakith's faithful roar out this tale. But beneath the roars, we hear wh...
Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part One: Betrayal Praise be to Mother Gith, Queen of the One Sky! So it was that we were free from ghaik shackles and turned our blades on each other. The heavens were shattered, and one great empire was divided into two. Gith traveled to the Hells to broker help fro her people, her cause...
Order of the Gauntlet: On Matters of Law and Justice Good is the absence of evil. It means to seek peace, and to enforce it; it means to seek depravity, and to denounce it; and it means to trust in your god and yourself, for the greatest good of all is called faith. Goodness is not lawfulness. Law is commandment, of go...
Order of Ilmatari Service [A mass book used by the Broken God's congregation during regular services. There are a lot of hymns about self-flogging scattered throughout the tome.]
Oral Histories of Faerûn: The Spellplague [This book is comprised of several chapters, one for each cited source. It claims to contain firsthand transcriptions of the oral histories of several storytellers throughout the realm.] Chapter 25: Cornelius and Tomelius Worthywar Halflings encountered on the Golden Road south...
Oral Histories of Faerûn: Paladin Oathbreakers [This book is comprised of several chapters, one for each cited source. It claims to contain first-hand transcriptions of the oral histories of several storytellers throughout the realm.] Chapter 7 Valemor the Outcast 52 years of age Human paladin (oathbreaker) Given Valem...
Oral Histories of Faerûn: Gith and Mind Flayers [This book comprises several chapters, one for each cited source. It claims to contain first-hand transcriptions of the oral histories of several storytellers throughout the realm.] Chapter 4 Pallidor the Swift 700 years of age Wood Elf storyteller hailing from the Wood ...
Ongoing Murder Investigations [A status update on an ongoing investigation. It details the stark increase in murders in the city, as well as the violence of the crimes. No leads to the killer have been found. It concludes with a recommendation to keep the public in the dark for as long as possible, or until the killer ...
One-Eye [The introduction to One-Eye by Palmer Junisugga reads:] As Corellon Larethian's diametric opposite, Gruumsh presents a cyclopic portrait of destruction, loathing, and cruelty. Contentious orcish mythologians have dared (to their credit) to cast Gruumsh in the position of spurned son, prideful and powerful desp...
One Night in Nashkel [The cover of this pulp erotica describes the contents.] 'After months of imprisonment in the Nashkel mines, Enchanter Xan cannot bear his solitude any longer, and decides to pleasure himself with the only companion he has: his sentient sword the Moonblade.'
One Foot, Two Feet, Well Met, We'll Meet One foot, two feet Well met! We'll meet Two drakes, one mink One draught, two drinks. One bear, three beers Come join! Drink here. Well met! We'll meet. Yondalla and Garl Shared twixt them a farl All covered in butter And they liked each other. Along came a fly Who flew in with ...