List of Books

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Below is a list of Books found in Quelmar, with additional details to note whether they are unique items or if copies can be found in multiple libraries. Select books in Brightwater circa 180 BR can be found here.

How to Perform for Orcs

How to Perform for Orcs was an introductory book on the history of musical instruments as of 692 PR, written by Anema E. Core during his downtime living in the town of Sneerwell. Complains would later be received by half-orcs for the racist title, which implied that playing instruments was so easy - "Even an orc could do it".

The Tides of Blood

The Tides of Blood is a novel published by the author Fagin Cloudtop. There are few copies, and they have a hard outer cover, while the pages are lightly coated in wax to protect them from water damage.

Legends and Lore of Pre-history

Published in 07 CR, Legends and Lore of Pre-history, by Prof. Lysander Callis with illustrations by Jasper Parson, is a foundational academic text compiling mythic traditions believed to predate written history. The book offers comparative analysis of surviving oral accounts, recovered inscriptions, and fragmentary manuscripts—including an extensive study of The Elegy of Atycos, the only known Vaelonic epic. Callis explores recurring motifs such as memory, divine absence, and journeys through altered realities, drawing parallels between disparate mythic systems across lost civilizations. Parson’s illustrations accompany the text with site reconstructions and artifact sketches, making the volume both a scholarly resource and a visual archive of mythic pre-history.

Guide to the Common Man's Magic

A book with instructions on how to perform a few cantrips even if you aren't a spellcaster!

Includes:

• Mending
• Friends
• Prestidigitation
• And Demiplane

The Works of Ynnis Valenford Sexton

The pamphlet from the Midnight book release of Ynnis' book detailing the Ancients Alive campaign.

Ynnis published several books in his lifetime, including

• The Bungalow: Quelmar's Arts and Crafts Home. A review of locations (not all bungalows), including the Edesian, Dry Haol, and Bar from Afar. He notably gave the Hag's Hut zero stars.
• The Final Winter of the Eladrin, recounting the Ancients Alive campaign.
• Ynnis Valenford and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Half of the proceeds of this book went to the House of Tenorixion.

The Works of Lincoln-Renfield Murry

Lincoln authored several books in his lifetime, though only three were published:

• Summer Over Silverslip (Published in 28 CR) – Lincoln’s debut novel, modest in sales but quietly influential, earning him a small but devoted literary following. Set in the Silverslip district of Newfaire during the hazy months following the Great No Man’s War, the novel follows James, a disillusioned young veteran hired as a private security escort for Wila, the daughter of a powerful judge. As the city’s golden facades shimmer under a layer of corruption, James is drawn into a whirlwind summer romance—elegant parties, whispered secrets, and moments of fragile tenderness. Wila introduces him to a world of privilege, and for a brief time, James allows himself to believe in the possibility of healing and connection. But when he uncovers the judge’s systemic abuses of power—and learns that Wila has long known and chosen to look away—James chooses to walk away from their relationship, changed but not embittered. Written in clipped, ironic prose tinged with melancholy, the novel blends post-war cynicism with aching beauty, capturing the slow, inevitable loss of innocence amid the steam-lit streets of a city clinging to civility.
• The Day the Veil Was Torn (Published in 35 CR) – A harrowing work of speculative horror and science fiction, The Day the Veil Was Torn unfolds in the contemporary world of 35 CR Newfaire as a dimensional breach begins—first subtly, then with terrifying speed. What begins as a strange atmospheric disturbance during a live radio broadcast spirals into an all-consuming catastrophe, as entities from a vast and ancient plane beyond comprehension begin to emerge into the physical world. Told through a series of fractured narratives—government reports, eyewitness testimonies, missing audio logs, and the confessions of those who heard "the signal"—the novel charts the collapse of a city and the moral unraveling of its people. As the boundaries between dimensions decay, so too does any illusion of control, revealing the horrifying consequences of tampering with forces never meant to be understood, let alone harnessed. Beneath its surface of dread and creeping apocalypse, the novel is a blistering commentary on humanity’s tendency to colonize what it does not comprehend, to treat cosmic horror with clinical ambition, and to wage war against the unknowable in the name of progress. The book ends not with resolution, but with a sudden, breathless silence—as if something just stepped into the room. A brief afterword by Lincoln follows: dry, winking, and filled with anecdotes about misplacing the original manuscript in a coffeehouse. It is a strange relief after the descent, and a final reminder that even in the face of annihilation, he believed humor might be our last and most human defense.
• Mud and Bones (Published in 36 CR) – A stark and unflinching war novel told through the eyes of Pearl, a sharp-tongued, headstrong teenager who volunteers alongside four childhood friends to serve in the Noman Army during the Great No Man’s War. Fueled by conviction and a sense of loyalty larger than themselves, the five are thrust into the mire of trench warfare, enduring the slow, suffocating churn of fear, loss, and boredom. Pearl’s narration is biting, compassionate, and often laced with dark humor—an inner monologue that acts as armor as much as it does confession. As the war drags on and innocence is steadily carved away, the group dwindles—some lost to violence, others to despair—but Pearl endures, not untouched, but unbroken. Through whispered conversations beneath gaslit tents, memories of shared songs, and silent moments watching snow fall over blasted no-man’s-land, Pearl and her remaining friend, Ezra, carry each other through. Where other stories of war end in ruin, Mud and Bones chooses a different path: Pearl and Ezra return home together, changed but not shattered, their bodies and minds intact not by luck, but by stubborn defiance. The final chapter finds them rebuilding not just a life, but a sense of meaning—on a farmhouse porch, with the sound of laughter, two chairs, and a sunrise. Lincoln’s prose lingers not on what was lost, but on what remains. Mud and Bones is a testament to the endurance of friendship, the quiet strength of women in war, and the radical belief that even after unimaginable horror, healing is possible.

Fifty Shades of Neigh

A smutty dime novel with a antlered horse on the cover written by E L Manes. The druid and rogue protagonists might make a return in its rumored sequel Chasing Whitetail.

Her Chromatic Orbs

An erotic novel by E L Manes featuring a woman with heterochromia.

Plays

• Imilliaw "William" Shakespeare was an eladrin artist from the Feywild, whose works became famous in several planes after his jump in the late BR era, and his works survived in one form or another throughout all of Quelmarian history. Hisis notable works include:
  • Romeo and Juliet: a story of tragic, forbidden love between a high elf and a dark elf
  • The Tempest: extremely popular on Kiston and the surrounding islands for its setting on a remote island
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream: highly praised for its accurate representation of many of the historical fairies appearing in the work, leading many to believe Shakespeare spent time in the feywild

• Oscar Wilde was another popular playwright in the PR era, mostly for his comedic works. His most popular play was The Importance of Being Earnest.

• Lin Manuel Miranda was a popular playwright/composer in the CR era. His fantasy musical Hamilton told the story of the founding of a fictional nation known as Murka.
• Andrew Lloyd Webber was also a playwright/composer in the CR era. He's famous for several works, including Cats (the most famous production of which contained an entirely Tabaxi cast, and seems to have been inspired by the true traditions of at least one small tabaxi cult), and Phantom of the Opera.
• The Eladrin Tristram Caniedydd famously wrote and performed An Evening with the Bard (A One-Man Show by Tristram) at his own personal theater: Tristram's Center for the Living Arts. It is known that the script starts with a dramatic face off against a prop dragon representing Thymor'ala. This play was famously done as the opening act of a battle which saw the death of one of The Mothers

The Tabaxi in the Black Sea

A children's book by Dr. Spruce, a New Dryad.

From Horatio's Library

When Horatio Cheshire was raided in 825 PR, a number of books were found in his posession including:

Translation of the Teratanomicon

by Malcom Zalivech: A tenuous translation of an ancient abyssal tome depicting both hideous monsters and the depraved, lurid acts they performed with mortals. There are several illustrations rendering the subject manner in disgusting detail.

To Serve Man

(no author): A cookbook detailing fine recipies prepared from the flesh, blood, and bones of freshly-slain or still-living humans.

On the Transmutation of Living and Recently Deceased Tissues

by Archmagi Kazan: A treatise detailing the use of both transmutation and necromancy to create nonliving constructs from flesh and bone.

The Pleasures of Pain

by Marko Mesokist: A depraved treatise concerning the derivation of lurid pleasure from experiencing pain. Includes numerous vile illustrations of the acts described in the text.

The Art of Razing

by Dostron Voltanescu: A detailed and thorough guide to destroying the land, population, and spirit of a land through methods such as salting fields, systematic violations, and traditional decimation.

Bolderbell's Post-Fracture Guide to Weaveless Magic

A self-published guide written by Beni Bolderbell that alleged to teach techniques for limited spellcasting without the benefit of the Weave as an arcane conductor, drawing from old-world Gnomish communities who—even following the Fracturing of the Weave—rejected most PR-era technologies which sought to replace traditional magic for daily tasks. However, the practice of magic had been dwindling as an interest within Levinkan even prior to the CR era and the book only achieved sparse circulation.