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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Birmy" data-source="post: 9349512" data-attributes="member: 50221">I've just rewatched Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves on bluray (like it even more on rewatch!), and in the deleted scenes is an extended version of the Speak with Dead sequence. In it, the corpse which, in the film, is asked what it's favorite book is, goes on at length listing all of his favorite tomes (seriously: this goes on for six full minutes).I thought it would be fun to take a look at the books he lists. I only really recognize a handful of the more obvious people (Volo, Battlehammer Clan, Vecna) and places (Sembia, Silver Marches). Some must be in-jokes (a reference to Tom Morello, for example) and some have obvious analogues to the real world (The Little Triton, The Manticore King, and other fables). Are many/most/all of these canonical from the game? If not, what do you reckon these books are actually about?A full list of every book mentioned follows.Poetry:Roffarin's balladsThe Brightwind ElegiesThe Twine of VayhiseNodroph Rand's 16 sonnetsReflections on a Windbound GauntletStage plays:The Potter's Ground of PenelopeLumad Dukie and the Beggar's MoonFoland Grondpath's later worksThe Temptations of Reavis PogueSunrise Over Dava DuneThe Chambermaid's PredicamentTamon Malket's NeedleThe Learning of the Encyclopedic ManO'er the Speckled Hills of RasalantaTravelogues:Hinch Finpin's Ten Tawdry TavernsThe Bonny Lakes of Silver Marches by Sampson BasilEnduring Weathercote ForestMy Pilgrimage with Lofas McHardingsVolo's Guide to Spirits and Specters, "as well as his musings on extraplanar aberrations""Other tomes:"The Anecdotal Follies of Vecna's VeechThe Pacing of Visceral ImmediacyCradle Songs of Love's AdorationThe Ascension of LaakisGrog HovelsThe Beardbound Book of BattlehammerJocelyn's FrequencyThe Occult Properties of GemstonesThe Trials of Barnaby BucklesLancegrove's TravelsFarce:Never Trust a TortleHow Wrong Can One Sembian Be?The Odorous CottageBleppy Hollister's Chaddy HandbookThings enjoyed "as a young man":the lascivious parables of Twilbert CherryLonra Among the LaaksoThe Wretched Life of Usadi and LuselmanUsi Gullibar and the Spine of the WorldRising a Buckard by Dess JancerThe Magical Wonders of NetherilLizard Language and Common Tongue GrammarTome of the UnicornTriumph ExemplarPrimordials and Their ServitorsFrom the Dawned Cataclysm to the End of AllTreasures of the Fire LordsThe Origin Myths: A Treatise"The fables my mother read to me as a child...":The Featherless OwlbearStimms GriplyLady Bormath and the Nine GnomesThe Little TritonThe Manticore KingIlluminated manuscripts:Kings Bury the HalpernDark Morello of FireshearThe Lurkwood ChroniclesThe Cloisters of Evil RockWellems, Mithral Bridge (not sure if this is supposed to be a single title or two)The Nature of the SahuaginRomantic elegy:The Learning of the Encyclopedic Man (repeat from above--he must have really liked that one)Occurrence at Twizzel BridgeA Fortnight and a Ha'pennyA Trick House for BarnableThe Chaotic Clusters of ClandeboyeIt's easy to see why this longer version was cut (if, indeed, it was ever intended as anything other than a lark). The punchline it arrives at many minutes later is [ISPOILER]that he has listed every book he has ever read and, having answered the question, falls back dead again.[/ISPOILER]</blockquote>

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