Lost Books
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Lost Books
Lost Books is a series of pdfs published by Clockwork Golem Workshop that each detail one famous book lost to the ages containing strange, unusual, or unique spells. Each pdf delves deeply into the history and origin of the book as well as gives specifics on costs, protections, and a physical description of the book.
Lost Books
#1: The Tome of Black Ice
Unlike many necromancers, Vadrahk Darkblade saw the use and manipulation of undead as a personal weakness. Believing strongly in his own swordsmanship and arcane powers, Vadrahk believed that the reliance on undead servitors was an easy path to self-destruction. Rather than use the powers of darkness to create unlife, Vadrahk turned his mastery over negative energy into a weapon that could be used to decimate enemy forces and weaken opponents.
#2: The Red Fist
The Red Fist contains lost magic and battle-tactics used by Patriarch-General Kull Redfist, temporal head of the Church of Tyranny and Baron of the small province known as Bleakmarsh. A half-orc of considerable strength and wisdom, Kull is recorded in the annals of the church as a skilled tactician and conqueror, a man who single-handedly turned a swamp-drenched village into the power-base for an extended campaign that decimated forces of orcs, goblins, lizardfolk and a dragon while building a prosperous life in a region many dismissed as uninhabitable.
#3: The Log of the Gray Swan
The Log of the Gray Swan contains the collected spells of Zalich Ulhoran, halfling wizard and pirate of the Spice Coast. Fusing his love of hot spices and the sea, Zalich's magic made him one of the most dangerous privateer captains to take to the Sea.
#4: The Heart of the White Star
The Knights of the White Star were devoted to opposing the evil of demons and undead in the mortal world, an order to steadfast in its opposition of evil that the hordes of chaos banded together to ensure their destruction. In order to preserve their magic and legacy, the knights hid their greatest lore in a tome known only as the Heart of the White Star.
#5: Tome of the Mad Gods
The realm of the Mad Gods was thought to be a lost plane, an empty graveyard where deities possessing ancient knowledge lay sleeping lest their madness result in the destruction of all existence. The dwarven diviner Halgo Torke proved that it existed, finding his way to the hidden demiplane and learning a variety of dangerous magics from the sleeping powers that lay there. While he was driven mad by what he learned, the Tome of the Mad Gods contains a record of all his fragmented mind could remember in the aftermath of his visit to the realm.
#6: Raison d'Etre
Raison Vineward grew up with an aptitude for arcane magic and a love of ray spells that was unequalled in his lifetime. Opening a small academy to pass his love on to a new generation, his legacy was tainted by the misuse and carelessness of his students. While his school was destroyed, Raison's spells live on in a slim tome that was carried away by a young wizard who escaped the attack.
#7: Book of the Golden Vizier
Wielding powerful desert magic and the blood of his genie ancestors, the Golden Vizier kept his tiny homeland safe for over a century. His secrets were passed on to his successor in a tome that recorded all his secrets, along with the names of 12 powerful genies who would serve those that called upon them in the Vizier's name.
#8: Wayryth's Lexicon of Walls
The spells of Wayryth, one of the worlds greatest magical artisans, focuses on the development of new magic walls that can be used both offensively and defensively.
#9: The Longstrider's Journal
The thoughts, maps and magical theories of the worlds greatest traveler, the Longstrider's Journal is filled with spells that assist bards, rangers and druids in their wanderings.
#10: Butterboar's Book of Spellbrews
Containing the private spells of Barley Butterboar, the Book of Spellbrews was penned by a wizard that truly believed that magic and ale was a match made in heaven.
#11: The Cannibal Tome
The legendary spellbook of Vazag Herathi, better known as the paranoid Cannibal King of Athemore, has been the object of wizard's obsessions for centuries. Most spellcasters have heard of the Tome and its seemingly endless catalogue of spells, few have learned the dark secret behind its vast repository of arcane knowledge.
#12: The Bloodmoon Tome
A sorcerer who derived her power from her werewolf heritage, Mayan the Bloodmoon's mastery of lunar magic and lycanthrope control were nearly legendary. Why such a bloodthirsty woman created a tome full of her most prized spells for later generations to study is a source of mystery, but lycanthrope and human spellcasters alike have sought the book out for centuries.
#13: Light in the Trollmist
Waylin Tayloc spent most of the Trollmist War as a prisoner, serving the cabal of demon worshippers that led the troll armies. When he escaped and joined the troll's human enemies, he brought with him a tome full of military secrets and strange new magic used by a number of troll spellcasters.
#14: Mark of Light
Flerri of the Thousand Rainbows possessed a unique talent for light spells and prismatic magic. She compiled a vast collection of illuminated spells during her 100 year journey to earn her position as a wizard-shaman and tribal archivist, although rumor suggests that the collection was stolen before she returned to her home.
#15: Book of the Black Tongue
While Tobias Morley masqueraded as a simple actor and diplomat, history remembers him as the infamous spy and provocateur nicknamed the Black Tongue by his victims. Using a combination of arcane wordplay and natural charm, he manipulated the politicians of his day and initiated conflicts that continued for decades. Today his legend continues thanks to a simple book of plays and spells, many of which contain the details of his arcane spells hidden behind a series of complex ciphers.
#16: Codex of Sylvan Warfare
The Codex of Sylvan Warfare is a book shrouded in mystery, a gift from the primal forces of nature that appears only when civilization threatens to encroach upon the forest borders. Containing a wealth of druidic lore and magic, the book's sole purpose is to give druids and other natural denizens the tools they need to wage war against the men of the cities.
