Ruins of Adventure
Mornhaven's Library
A vast collection of books. Each several hundred years old or more, but well preserved by the magic suffusing the Mornhaven Towers. The books (103 volumes in all) are written in a mix of Auld Cormanthan, Auld Tharian, and Ancient Nogese, and require either the appropriate Ancient Languages proficiency or magic to peruse.
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SUBJECT | LANGUAGE |
| Encyclopedia Donkaniara | author unknown | Bestiary | Auld Cormanthan |
| Fowl or Foul? A Study of Hippogriff Brutality | author unknown | Bestiary | Auld Cormanthan |
| Encyclopædia of Toadstools | author unknown | Botany | Auld Cormanthan |
| Astrology’s Chimney Sweep | Aubry de Rosata | Divination | Auld Cormanthan |
| Heretics’ Hides | Alcofrybas Nasier | Fiction / Novel | Auld Cormanthan |
| The Guzzlers’ Den | Alcofrybas Nasier | Fiction / Novel | Auld Cormanthan |
| The Biography of a Dead Cow | Rudolph Block | Forensics | Auld Cormanthan |
| How to Keep It Up Till You’re Nine-Hundred and Ninety | Brother Regis | Humor | Auld Cormanthan |
| How to Make a Nobleman Shut Up | Brother Regis | Humor | Auld Cormanthan |
| Humility’s Worn-out Shoe | Brother Regis | Humor | Auld Cormanthan |
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unknown author | Medicine | Auld Cormanthan |
| Deadly Vestments: A History of Inept Military Couture | Antonia Fremont | Military History | Auld Cormanthan |
| Five Ambushes | Antonia Fremont | Military History | Auld Cormanthan |
| Four Lost Causes | Antonia Fremont | Military History | Auld Cormanthan |
| Fairy Tales of the Law | Lourdadus | Philosophy | Auld Cormanthan |
| Forcible Removal in Matters Requiring a Conscience | Lourdadus | Philosophy | Auld Cormanthan |
| Magnanimity’s Stewpot | Lupoldus | Philosophy | Auld Cormanthan |
| Piety’s Handcuffs | Lupoldus | Philosophy | Auld Cormanthan |
| The Chains of Religion | R. Lullius | Philosophy | Auld Cormanthan |
| The Crucible of Contemplation | Silvester of Priero | Philosophy | Auld Cormanthan |
| The Musty Mustard-Pot of Penitence | M. Vaurillon | Philosophy | Auld Cormanthan |
| The Tri-Pod of Noble Thought | F. Pedebilletis | Philosophy | Auld Cormanthan |
| Savonarola: A Tragedy | Ladbroke Brown | Play | Auld Cormanthan |
| A Pot for All Seasons | unknown author | Recipes | Auld Cormanthan |
| Begging Monks’ Stew | unknown author | Recipes | Auld Cormanthan |
| On the Serving of Mustard after Meals, Fourteen Volumes | M. Vaurillon | Recipes | Auld Cormanthan |
| Peas in Lard, with commentary | M. Vaurillon | Recipes | Auld Cormanthan |
| The Timing of the Stew | Evadne Mount | Recipes | Auld Cormanthan |
| Worm Powder for the Poor | unknown author | Recipes | Auld Cormanthan |
| Pleasures of the Monastic Life | unknown author | Religion | Auld Cormanthan |
| L’Amour Nécromantique | Saul Legris | Sheet Music / Piano Score | Auld Cormanthan |
| L’E-ithalame des Cadavres Verdâtres | Saul Legris | Sheet Music / Piano Score | Auld Cormanthan |
| Les Aphrodisiaques | Saul Legris | Sheet Music / Piano Score | Auld Cormanthan |
| Les Satyriasis des Momies | Saul Legris | Sheet Music / Piano Score | Auld Cormanthan |
| Mortels des Démoniaques | Saul Legris | Sheet Music / Piano Score | Auld Cormanthan |
| The Ironic High Style | Doris Arthur | Art | Auld Tharian |
| The Status of Spirits in Royal Abodes | author unknown | Bestiary | Auld Tharian |
| Life of Sir Elmer Bole, Volume 1: A Singular Youth | Scholes Destry-Scholes | Biography | Auld Tharian |
| Life of Sir Elmer Bole, Volume 2: The Voyager | Scholes Destry-Scholes | Biography | Auld Tharian |
| Life of Sir Elmer Bole, Volume 3: Vicarage and Harem | Scholes Destry-Scholes | Biography | Auld Tharian |
| Journal | Horace Calverly, Lord Ufford | Diary | Auld Tharian |
| The Notary’s Basket | Eccius | Fiction / Novel | Auld Tharian |
| Cheated Husbands in Court | Pilloti Raquedenari | History | Auld Tharian |
| Rosier’s Encyclopedia | Jean-Bernard Rosier | History | Auld Tharian |
| The Masque of Murder | Roderick | History | Auld Tharian |
| The Third Part of Prince Amatus | Roderick | History | Auld Tharian |
| The Tragical Death of Boniface the Good | Roderick | History | Auld Tharian |
| Sixpenny Satires | Horace Calverly, Lord Ufford | Humor | Auld Tharian |
| The Vassal of Spalatro | Horace Calverly, Lord Ufford | Humor | Auld Tharian |
| First District Court of Thankyou | Kilgore Trout | Law | Auld Tharian |
| Lawyers’ Complaints about the Abolition of Bribes | Anonymous | Law | Auld Tharian |
| The Hungry Jaws of Lawyers | Guingolfus | Law | Auld Tharian |
| The Protocols of the Elders of Tralfamadore | Kilgore Trout | Law | Auld Tharian |
| A Comparison of Mathematical Processes as Employed by Six “Intelligent” Races | Unspiek, Baron Bodissey | Mathematics | Auld Tharian |
| Statistical Contributions to the Study of Infantile Paralysis | Sir Julian Freke | Medicine | Auld Tharian |
| A Journey to the Mountains of Vystrana | Isabella Camherst, Lady Trent | Memoire | Auld Tharian |
| A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir | Isabella Camherst, Lady Trent | Memoire | Auld Tharian |
| Memoirs, by King Amatus | King Amatus | Memoire | Auld Tharian |
| LaMotte’s Strategies of Evasion: A collection of essays | Leonora Stern | Military History | Auld Tharian |
| Three Plays (“Erotic Transference,” “Nakedness Tonight,” “Static Electricity”) | Margot Tenenbaum | Play | Auld Tharian |
| How to Pick Up Guys | Samuel Delany | Self-Help | Auld Tharian |
| Notes on the Collecting of Incunabula | Lord Peter Wimsey | Self-Help | Auld Tharian |
| The Murderer’s Vade Mecum | Lord Peter Wimsey | Self-Help | Auld Tharian |
| Antidotarium Animae | Merlin Coccaius | Arcana | Nogese |
| Decrotarorium Scholarium | unknown author | Arcana | Nogese |
| A General History of Labyrinths | Silas Haslam | Architecture | Nogese |
| The Meaning of the House | C. F. Earbrass | Architecture | Nogese |
| Among the Snow Weasels | K. Pierpoint Poundsworth | Bestiary | Nogese |
| Ants from Hell | Anthony L. K. LaScorbia | Bestiary | Nogese |
| Flies from Hell | Anthony L. K. LaScorbia | Bestiary | Nogese |
| More Chains Than Clank, A Commentary on Kytons | C. F. Earbrass | Bestiary | Nogese |
| Rats from Hell | Anthony L. K. LaScorbia | Bestiary | Nogese |
| Scorpions from Hell | Anthony L. K. LaScorbia | Bestiary | Nogese |
| The History of Elves, Brownies, and Hobgoblins | unknown author | Bestiary | Nogese |
| Wasps from Hell | Anthony L. K. LaScorbia | Bestiary | Nogese |
| Flesh-eating Trees of the World | author unknown | Botany | Nogese |
| Lectures of Prescience | Harq al-Ada | Divination | Nogese |
| Material and Spiritual Prediction in Ten Easy Lessons | Voltiper of Kortoli | Divination | Nogese |
| Prognostication and the Master of Useless Dreams | Songecruyson | Divination | Nogese |
| The Prescient Vision | Harq al-Ada | Divination | Nogese |
| Problems of the Poor | Herbert Keanes | Economics | Nogese |
| Upon the Influence of a Trade upon the Form of the Hand | S. Holmes | Economics | Nogese |
| On the Study of Tobaccos and their Ashes | S. Holmes | Forensics | Nogese |
| Stories of the Kings of Canarre | Marotus du Lac | History | Nogese |
| Was it likely? | C. F. Earbrass | History | Nogese |
| Histoire d’Amour | Bernard de Vaillantcoeur | History (Erotic) | Nogese |
| Ars Honeste Petandi in Societate | Hardouin de Graetz | Law | Nogese |
| Badinatorium Sophistarum | Marmotretus | Law | Nogese |
| The Mahdinate, an Analysis | Harq al-Ada | Literary Criticism | Nogese |
| The Sexagintal and the Duodecimal | Schimmelpenninck | Mathematics | Nogese |
| On the Surface Anatomy of the Human Ear | S. Holmes | Medicine | Nogese |
| Some Observations Upon a Series of Kalmuk Skulls | Professor George Edward Challenger | Medicine | Nogese |
| The Peculiar Neurodegenerative Inhabitants of the Kazawa Atoll | Raleigh St. Clair | Medicine | Nogese |
| The Life and Personal Recollections, as well as Many pointed Observations, of Grahna-Shalla, son of Shalla-hedron of Lower Adelfi, who Fished in the Demonsea and Returned with Booty Marvelous to Tell | Grahna-Shalla | Memoire | Nogese |
| The Truffle Plantation | C. F. Earbrass | Memoire | Nogese |
| Why I Didn’t Die When the Augerey Cried | Gulliver Pokeby | Memoire | Nogese |
| The Holy Metamorphosis | Harq al-Ada | Philosophy | Nogese |
| The Moral Dustbin | C. F. Earbrass | Philosophy | Nogese |
| Practical Parenting in a Fractally Demented Universe | author unknown | Planar Lore | Nogese |
| Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Guilt But Were Too Ashamed To Find Out | Oolon Colluphid | Psychology | Nogese |
| The Relationship of Extradigitalism to Genius | Zubarin | Psychology | Nogese |
| The Teleology of Mental Degeneration | Otto Hinze | Psychology | Nogese |
| The Unstrung Harp | C. F. Earbrass | Sheet Music (Compilation) | Nogese |
Note: As a research aid, these ancient tomes lend a total of 5550gp to the value of a Wizard’s Library. Reduce the effective value by 1500gp for each of the above ancient languages that the wizard is lacking.
Even a wizard who is not proficient in any of the required languages will be able to glean a minimal amount of useful information from the pictures, diagrams, and equations scattered throughout.
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