The limited details I have on the rest of the books.
A Bagpiper's Manual of Merry Music
Author: Rankiin Tabah
Contents: a collection of dance tunes along with a few rousing patriotic military marches
A Mummer's Memoirs
Author: Veda the Polite
Contents: a collection of simple skits and sketch comedies, generally approved for performing for children
A Parting Shot
Author: Noces Foamblack
Contents: mounted archery of the north eastern steppes
A Pointed Discourse
Author: Sir Eldan Silveredge
Contents: Details about rapiers, small swords, sword-sticks, single sticks, bucklers, capes, etc
A Wealth of Widows con artist
Author: Laogshaul
Contents: describes how to identify, and, if necessary, create wealthy widows which to bilk of their inheritances
Acrobatic Antics: Back Flipping, Cartwheeling, Jumping, Hand Standing, Leaping, Rolling, Somersaults, Springing, Tumbling, Twirling, and Vaulting
Author: Nune Pintwise
Contents: believed to be the ultimate in illustrated expression of the acrobatic arts, this book has led to numerous injuries, and is believed to cause vertigo in those susceptible to motion sickness
Almanac of the Lands of Jade & Obsidian
Contents: Mayan & Aztec bestiary; Obsidian eagles, Jade Jaguars, Howling Monkeys & Tonsured Maize Spirits
Ancient Airships
Author: Asmai Shokhet
Anecdotes from the Simple Shepherds of the Inner Sea Islands
Author: Domna Catalactus (f)
Contents: slings
Animism Faith Heraldry
Contents: Details 30 different animism faith symbols.
Animus Concordance
Author: Thelma Schnee
Contents: psychic travel & senses
Annotated Home Journal
Author: Maren Bok
Contents: this seemingly innocuous book covers many mundane home activities, with tips and advice on home gardening, cooking recipes, interior decoration, and cleaning tips, however, to a psychic with object reading powers, it acts as a teaching tome to developing one's psionic powers
Apocryphal Agency
Author: Teleki Solm
Contents: developing mental psionic powers
Asphyxiation Annual
Contents: Burking, Smothering, Drowning, & Throttling; other means of asphyxiation
Astrologer's Almanac
Author: Celestra of the Tower
Contents: star charts & data
Automatoncraft
Contents: Bestiary covering artificial constructs
Avaricial Acquisition in Amusing Pastimes
Author: Narvin the Screamer
Contents: games & gambling
Bank & Bar: A River Rat's Guide to boating and cataract portage
Author: Thanalthanal Nazhhalsdotter
Beast Cults Creeds
Contents: Details 30 cults which worship animals and monsters.
Beliefs of Luddite Faiths
Contents: Detailed beliefs of four groups opposed to technology.
Bestiary of Repugnant Reptilians
Contents: Limbed Reptiles, non-draconic tortoise, newt, salamander, frog, toad, etc
Better Living Through Alchemy
Author: Luckless Losdui the Lucky
Contents: drugs/recreational pharmaceuticals [maybe change to An Alchemist's Guide to Better Living
Better, Faster, Harder, Stronger
Author: Plunkett the Daft
Contents: an exercise guide, hour after hour of working out, remember to practice "one more time"
Bivouac, Lean-to, Tent, Tipi, Wigwam, & Yurt
Author: Skerevon Broadtrunk
Black Death, White Ride
Contents Beast Equines Horses
Black Market Buyer's Guide
Author: Tacharus the Biter
Contents: a guide to locating, identifying, and dealing with black market salespeople
Blessings of the Healer Sects
Contents; Covers 8 healer sects
Bog & Fen
Author: Anarien the Outlander
Contents: swamp survival
Bones & Skulls
Contents: Undead of the Ocean
Bones in the Casque
Contents: Bone Monsters
Book of Brute Bugs
Contents: Giant Insects
Book of Magic by Fanamur
Author: Fanamur, Named Elementalist
Bottom Sounding Basics for Bottom Feeding Land Lubbers
Author: Tufnell Wharf-rat
Brawling & Bouncing: The Warrior's Guide to Tavern Etiquette
Author: Troth Shuv
Contents: information on the proper methods of body flips, throws, strangle & sleeper holds, knockout punches, incapacitating kicks, grabs, bear hugs, as well as how to inflict damage with tavern dishes, mugs, drinking horns, flagons, tables and chairs, heated pots and pans; and how to avoid being damaged by such objects, curiously, also includes information on drinking responsibly, as well as methods to identify different types of drinkers with a particular focus on problem drinkers and how to calm or otherwise diffuse tense situations
Bringing in the Bounty
Author: Jubal Fett
Contents: man tracking
Bunko Shill's Guide to Disreputable Dodges
Author: Kravin Moregold
Contents: cons & swindles
Burnin' Down the House
Author: Ignitia Torchdancer
Contents: a very detailed guide to burning down all kinds of buildings and structures, includes some interesting pyrotechnic recipes, ignition devices/contraptions, and other useful tools and apparel
Caitiff Codex
Contents: Underworld/Hell Beasts
Care & Maintenance of Griffon/Gryphon/Griffin & Hippogriffs
Author: Tharnha Sharralfressa
Cartwright Chronicles
Author: Hoss & Little Joe
Cat, Bear, and Wolf
Author: Misarurog
Contents: tracking predatory animals
Catch & Cook: 101 Recipes for the Ranger
Author: Danik Stagsoul
Caving: The Dwarven Guide to Spelunking
Author: Doric son of Durur
Cerebral Scroll
Author: Brij Kumar
Contents: psychic mysticism/sensitive psionics
Chantries of Spiritual/Mystic Faiths
Contents: Details 12 spiritual chantries and mystic monasteries.
Charlie's Crematorium
Author: Andrew McGee
Contents: pyrokinesis
Cloisters of the Imperial Cults
Contents: Covers three imperial cults
Compendium of Forged Letters
Author: Stalkellum Banegray
Concordance of Siege Engine Construction
Author: Gardian Helmcleaver
Contents: catapults, onagers, trebuchets, perriers, rams & bores, siege towers, counter mining, gallery sheds, use of incendiaries
Confessions of a Funambulist
Author: Perthus Nimblefoot
Contents: the crime spree of a cat burglar who began his career as a cabin boy on a sailing ship, where he gained great proficiency at walking on and swinging from ropes, an unfinished work due to his untimely demise in falling off a horse, the last section contains ponderings and musings on whether or not it would have been easier to make acquisitions by bashing people in the head
Crag & Tor
Author: Anarien the Outlander
Contents: mountaineering
Creatures of the Primal Agents Lexicon
Contents: Elementals - Volcano/Lava, Arctic/Polar, Earth, Air Creatures
Cthonic Sects of the Utter South 4
Cutlasses of the Corsairs
Author: Killer Kaor
Contents: a pirates guide; while primarily covering cutlasses, sabers, small-swords, gaffs, boat hooks, boarding pikes and boarding axes, grappling hooks, marlinspikes, slung-shots, and some other naval type weapons are covered
Dark Rites of Ebony
Author: Arkanikus, Named Death Mage
Darkness & Shadow
Author: The Serpent's Fang
Contents: guide to 30 assassin guilds, cults, and groups
Dead Reckoning by the power of the lodestone
Author: Richard Blackburne
Death From Above & Below
Contents: assassination tactics using three dimensional approaches
Death From Above; Harpies, Sirins, Tengu, Strix, Stymphalians, Three Legged Crows, Zhenniao poisonfeather birds and other aerial antagonists
Author: Kuruth Vahlnackhanson
Delphic Spirit Companion
Author: Grey the Ghosttalker
Contents: mediumship & seance
Demon Worship Cult Bible
Contents: Lists 15 demons and the cults that worship them.
Devil Worship Canon
Contents: Details the worship of 15 different devils.
Diary of a Snake Charmer and Sword Swallower
Author: Gupta Singh
Diary of Destitution
Author: Sprigg Uncouth
Contents: beggar, also known as The Beggar's Bowl; literally a beggar's bowl inscribed in the beggar argot/cant with the life story of an unsuccessful beggar
Diary of One Who Has Travelled Beyond
Author: the Enigmatic Cognizance
Contents: irrational ravings of a mad psychic whose powers left them open to many possessions, gives some hints as to combating possession
Dire Beasts & Cave Creatures
Author: Zolumb Dwarf Crusher
Contents: goblinoid guide to mount selection
Dire Dirges for the Minstrel
Author: Farik Bluedancer
Contents: a collection of elegies, funeral marches, laments, requiems, and dirges, all of a somewhat sinister nature, concerning lost loves, fallen comrades, stillbirths, and the "accidental" deaths or entombments of cantankerous old men, harping wives, harridans, viragos, and crone shrews; unsurprisingly, the author was put on trial and burned at the stake for practicing necromancy
Directorium of Confectioners & Chocolatiers
Author: Wil, Earl of Wonka
Directory of Sky Swarms
Contents: Avian Predators
Dismemberment and Decapitation: A Polearm Primer
Author: Gair, Earl of Gygax
Dowsing for Dunces
Author: Scaredusk the Drowned
Draconic Hoards of the Western Kingdoms
Contents: Western Dragons
Dwarven Amusements
Author: Dwoim Axebeard
Contents: a collection of dwarven drinking and gambling games
Dwarven Liminal Faiths
Contents: Covers seven dwarven cults that worship deities of thresholds, gates, and doorways.
Dwarven Tunneling Machines, Cave Carving Contrivances, and Mining Mechanisms
Author: Chamic Stonebeard
Eagle & Dragon: Aerial Dogfighting
Author: Balin of Farkrag
Ebanir's Phantasmanomicon
Author: Ebanir, Named Illusionist
Ego Whip & Id Barrier
Author: Gromkos, Brain Duelist
Contents: offensive & defensive mental psionics
Elemental Cult Traditions
Contents: The details of nine different elemental worshiping cults.
Elven Guide to Edible Berries & Nuts
Author: Ruudrim Kethavarash
Elven Hedonistic Sects
Contents: The lurid details of five elven sects dedicated to hedonism, gluttony, debauchery, epicureanism, and pleasured indulgence.
Elven Rhetoric
Author: Nuisarik Sylorael f
Contents: the majority of which consists of allegorical legal wrangling amidst amusing discourses condemning the elven predilection toward poetry
Elven Toxophilite
Author: Ansildir
Contents: archery
Encyclopedia of Exotic Weapons
Author: Shadorayth the Collector
Contents: an illuminated manuscript detailing 250 weapons, mostly chain-type weapons; flail, mace & chain, sectional chain whips, two & three piece rods, kusarigama, kyoketsushoge, though parrying bars, forked weapons, multiple bladed knives, claws, tridents, mancatchers, fans and throwing stars as well as bolas, are also included
Encyclopedia of Village Lockups
Contents: a guide to guard houses, round houses, watch houses, blind houses, bone houses, bridewells, and pinfolds
Erotic Verses
Author: Lusty Ocelot (Lusty Ocelot is believed to be a pen name for a high noble lady known for being less than discreet about her selection and multitude of lovers.)
Contents: mainly erotic illustrations
Evaluating Horses & Cattle
Author: the author of Charter of the Royal Horse Leech, Shadmir Talamar the XIV
Contents: while this manual nominally covers judging the value and health of horses and cattle, information on changing brands, stealing livestock, disguising livestock, reselling livestock to unscrupulous buyers, and methods of evading detection/tracking efforts while doing so; is all encoded into the border art
Explorer's Guild Charter
Author: Prepared for the guild by Triahm Blackhill
Fairy Wings of the Forest Lords
Author: Seftillan Silverpen
Contents: Elven Gliders
Fakirs, Mountebanks, Snake Oil Salesmen
Author: Harl Quinn
Contents: Identifying false psychics
Feral Fauna
Contents: Plant Monsters 2
Ferd the Foppish Footpad
Author: Snivler of the Alley
Contents: a pseudo-biographical book about the monkeyshines, shenanigans, and tomfoolery of a notoriously bad dressing fop
Field Guide to the Dark Fey of the Fell Forest
Contents: Sylvan Beasts 2
Folio of the Fearsome & Fantastic
Contents: Animals/Beasts
Freshwater Fishing in the Western Kingdoms
Author: Porphia Kindheart
Forgotten Temples of the Vestige Cults
Contents: Describes seven forgotten temples to lost deities.
Gally's Practical Navigator
Author: Gally Sternmann
Contents: considered a valuable handbook on navigation, though much of the information is cribbed from an older work Art of Navigation by Jafar ibn Hamid which was notable for it's many illustrations and models for making navigational instruments, it consists of six parts;
1 Overview of Maritime Navigation featuring using and updating charts, as well as maintaining the ship's logbook
2 Piloting, or navigating a ship in restricted waters
3 Navigational Mathematics, includes chapters relating to such topics as basic navigational mathematics and abacus use in the solution of navigation problems.
4 Direct navigation, the use of the lodestone compass to determine magnetic north/south, pelorus to determine bearings relative to the ship's heading of landmarks, other ships, etc., Chip log and sand glass serve to measure the ship's speed through the water, and Sounding line used to measure the depth of the water and to pick up samples from the bottom,
5 Indirect Celestial Navigation; use of the back staff, cross staff, kamal, mariner's astrolabe, quadrant, octant, & sextant, nocturnal/horologium nocturnum, and ring dial
6 Weather Forecasting
# Dividers used for measuring lengths of lines and approximate lengths of non-linear paths on a chart.
# Nautical almanac used to determine the position in the sky of a celestial body after a sight has been taken.
# Parallel rules used for transferring a line to a parallel position. Also used to compare the orientation of a line to a magnetic or geographic orientation on a compass rose.
Gardens from the Sky
Author: Nayleen the Herbalist
Contents: how to use materials provided by certain aerial steed in order to aid gardening efforts, and where to locate such gardens so as to receive the best results i.e. close enough to steal aerie/nesting materials, and located in a prime position to be manured well by droppings
Ghillie's Guide Book
Author: Haggis Cruickshanks
Ginrik Shaw's Guide to the Hansom Cab & Hackney Carriage
Author: Ginrik Shaw
Glossary of Krakens, Leviathans, and Ketus
Contents: Sea Creatures 2
Gnomish Sky Globes
Author: Donk
Contents: Lighter Than Air Devices
Goblin Poems
Author: Maglevek the Backstabber
Contents: average poetry more notable for the non-rhyming twist deliveries at the end of the poems
Goblin Totem Faiths
Contents: Describes over 30 different goblin totemic creatures.
Greatest Chariot Chases of the Utter South
Author: Kadija
Grimoire of Volrath
Author: Volrath, Named Weather Mage
Hammer & Axe: The Dictionary of Dwarven Fighting Weapons
Author: Nuraunt Axeoath
Contents: colloquially known as Clash! Clang! Hammer! Ding Dong!; one and two handed hammer and axe weapons of the dwarves
Handbook of the Bullwhip
Author: Henry Walton Jones the Younger
Haruspex Codex
Author: Axius Gaianus
Contents: divination psionics
Heister's Handbook
Author: Alyas Greybane f
Contents: a fairly useful guide to quickly determining which loot to steal while burglarizing, based on a weight/value ratio of the item
Hermit Sects of the Frozen North
Contents: List of nine notable hermits and curmudgeons.
Heroes and Heroines of the Hero Cults
Contents: Inspiring stories of 24 heroes & heroines.
Holy Vows of Saint Sects
Contents: A scholarly index of 36 sects dedicated to various saints.
Home Sweet Hole
Author: Yetho Bopo
Contents: goblin survival techniques
Humorous Troll Tales
Author: Tarlok the Troubled
Contents: mainly a small selection of jokes about trolls, such as "how many trolls does it take to change a torch bracket?", "What's the toll on a troll bridge?" and "how can you identify a troll miner?". unfortunately for the author, this book has been translated Author: Mogrog The Vindictive to Trollish
Ice & Snow
Author: Anarien the Outlander
Contents: arctic survival
Illuminated Manuscript of Locksmithing
Author: Agmar the Upright
Contents: This exquisitely detailed and illustrated manuscript is highly valuable to thieves, extensively detailing the operation of over 50 lock types, as well as diagramming their interiors, and providing general layouts for their associated skeleton keys. It also includes information on trapping locks and methods to foil lock picks. Ironically, this tome was written by a Guildmaster of a prominent thieves' guild
In the Darkness: Jungles of the Utter South
Author: Shadura Dreamerbow
Incarcerations & Executions
Contents: a punitive guide to impalement, the bilboe, boiling, use of the brazen bull, ducking stool, crucifixion, gallows, guillotine, gibbet, iron maiden, judas cradle, laqueas, pillory, pranger, stocks & whipping post
Inner Eye Diagnostics
Author: Maree LeBeau
Contents: psychic healing
Inscrutable Cognition
Author: Itzhaak Chomsky
Contents: inner self powers/mind over matter
Jain's Guide to Mechanical Monstrosities of the Deep
Contents: Sea Dragons of the Mysterious East, Dwarven Turtle Ships, Elven Ray Ships, Leviathan & Whale Submersibles of the Western Kingdoms, Gnomish Crab Walkers, Lobster Launches, the rare Squid & Kraken craft of the Frozen North, Orcish Shark Torpedoes, Goblin Diving Balls & Bladders-Jellyfish, Crocodile Diving Suits of the Utter South, artificial animaloid vessels used as submarines, kobold, gnomish, dwarvish & human inventors
Jalbert's Guide to Donjon Departure
Author: Jalbert Jailjumper
Contents: how to escape jails, donjons, & prisons; includes tunneling methods, faking death, arranging tools to be smuggled in, as well as concealing such tools, bribing guards or fellow inmates, touches on contortionism, climbing & swimming, disguised themselves as guards, workmen or women, sneaked away through sewer drains, and even planned to use a glider to get over the wall.
Jihads of the Purity Sects
Contents: A history covering great battles and holy quests of nine racial purity groups.
Jokes & Juggling
Author: Scudamore Gestour
Journal of the Wildmaster
Author: Torvan Huntswell
Known Death Cults
Contents: Scant descriptions of 13 death cults.
Kobold Cargo Cults
Contents: The bizarre worship of five different kobold cults.
Kything & Kenning
Author: Gareth "Fire-Eye" Kirkham
Contents: sensory psionics; ESP, Telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, etc.
Lapidary Lectionary
Contents: On Silversmiths, Gem cutters, Goldsmiths, Schrimpschongers, & Intaglio Makers
Ledger of Lake and River Scourges
Contents: Lake & River Monsters
Limbic Literacy
Author: Yuri Blavatsky
Contents: automatic writing & reading of objects
Liturgy De Supplicationibus et Exorcismis
Author: Tiberius Carius Romanus
Contents: liturgy of supplications and exorcisms; exorcism rituals
Livy's Legionnaire Lessons
Author: Aulus Publicius Vestinus Thrax
Contents: basically a guide on how to train, maintain, and operate a roman-style military legion, includes information on weapon usage, armor selection, care of the same, fortification & fortified camp construction, logistics, and how to maintain discipline through the use of unit punishments and keep the legionnaires with a uniform appearance
Logbook of the Astral Voyager
Author: Jarhkel Inalapirk
Contents: purports to be tales of astral travel
Lords of Rain, Sea, Fire, and Sky
Contents: Eastern Dragons
Love Sonnets for the Minnesinger
Author: Lyrsar
Contents: a repertoire of love songs cribbed from other sources, all changed so that the object of one's desire can easily be inserted into the songs
Lyrical Limericks of the Gleeman
Author: Eslin the Tawdry
Contents: contain a wide variety of carnal chants, sensual songs, lascivious lays, lewd lyrics, obscene orations, racy readings, spicy sonnets, suggestive serenades, titillating tunes, ribald roundels, perverse paens and vulgar verses; all of which rhyme. A proscribed work which is widely circulated
Mace Mathematics
Author: Nazergl The Inedible
Contents: goblin weapon selection detailed concerning one and two handed clubs, cudgels and maces, though adzes, stone axes, picks, goads, stone knives and spears make an appearance and combat tactics; of interest regarding clubs are the differentiation between club, bludgeon, truncheon, cudgel, baton, bat, board, billy clubs, axe/pick handle, stick, knoberrie, shillelagh, studded war club ala tetsubo, spiked war club, & bladed war club; also interesting is the inclusion of the Goblin Nail board and it's more impressive cousin, the Goblin Nail Bat, maces are differentiated as flanged, spiked, studded/knobbed, or other including animal headed, melon-headed, cube-headed, octagonal-headed, and ring headed and some detail is given to the discussion on the merits of cylindrical mace heads over spherical mace heads as wells as the acquisition and care of ceremonial maces & virges to indicate degrees of leadership among goblin tribes.
Magic Carpet Ride
Author: Stephen Farkas
Manual of Monstrous Mounts
Manual of Mount Maintenance
Contents: Chilton's; primarily covers horses, donkeys, mules, asses, onagers, and cattle oxen
Mass Transportation
Author: Guineamen
Contents: palanquins & sedan chairs
Master of Arbalesters Manuscript
Author: Kirsha Silverbone f
Contents: crossbows, arbalests, ballista, stone bows, belly bows, and gastraphetes
Masters of Forest and Mountain
Contents: Beast Ursines
Memoirs of a Merry Highwayman
Author: Lytle Jonsson
Contents: describing a life devoted to brigandage, poaching, and robbing travelers through methods such as charging "tolls" for guiding through the wilderness, crossing a ford or bridge, etc.; also discusses the use of such infamous catchphrases as 'stand and deliver' and 'your money or your life'
Memorable Muggings
Author: Trobius Pickaxe
Contents: scant depictions of 1,112 robberies and 185 murders including the killing of 32 town guards
Meteormantic Heraldry
Author: Saulalyrn the Sighted
Contents: discussion of auras and psychic manifestations
Monastic Sects of the Western Kingdoms
Contents: A guidebook to the 18 most known monasteries of the Western Kingdoms.
Monstrous Mutatations in Humanoid Form
Contents: Eye/Face/Hair/Head Monsters
Mooncusser's Memoirs on the Circumvention of Customs, Duties, Embargoes, Excises, and Levies
Author: Agriyaegek the Greedy
Contents: a smuggler's guide to choosing which commodities typically alcohol, tobacco, drugs, gems, furs, precious metals, and weapons to move where, how to corrupt customs officials, how to disguise or conceal one's cargo, and the use of tunnels, smuggler's coves, and identifying overland smuggler routes
Morphic Records
Author: Joysel Geller
Contents: a collection of dreams interpreted and discussed
Mysteries of the Sylvan Wood
Author: Throola Ruabrarrae
Mysteries of the Trickster Sects
Contents: Depictions and details about the rituals of six different cults who worship trickster deities.
Narrative of Inveris the Mind Lord
Author: Inveris the Mind Lord
Contents: pseudo-biographical history of a practicing psychic
Nature Faith Beliefs
Contents: Beliefs of a dozen different nature worshiping groups.
On Locating and Constructing Campsites
Author: Cygna Nightguard
On Swimming in Different Bodies of Water
Author: Richard Blackburne
One Horse Open Sleigh: Winter Travel in the Frozen North
Author: Asgaut Starkadsson
Oneiromancer
Author: Selburr Shadowdreamer
Contents: dream divination & interpretation
Orcish Belly Dancing
Author: Yoralg Fleshtearer
Contents: believed to be the erotic mating dances used by female orcs to attract a mate, though such dances traditionally end when two female orcs vying for the same male orc get into the ritualistic cat-fight involving bagh nakh
Orcish Fetish Faiths
Contents: 16 different orcish fetishes and their meanings.
Overland Cartography
Author: Velar the Cartogropher
Pack Predators
Contents: Beast Canines
Palik's Libram
Author: Palik, Named Sorceror
Palik's Progeny
Author: Palik the named sorcerer
Contents: Subterranean Dwellers 2,
Pathfinders of the Frozen North
Author: Urthclub Thikson
Peltast Poetry
Author: Demosthenes Kourniakis
Contents: javelins & war darts
Phantasmic Dwellers
Contents: Dream & Nightmare Creatures
Picture Book of Prestidigitation
Author: Houdini Sharesall
Contents: prescribed by the prestidigitator guild as exposing over 200 "magic tricks" complete with exquisitely detailed illustrations and diagrams for the construction of magic boxes, trick coins and rings, sleeve pockets, folding swords, and self extinguishing flaming devices
Pillow Book of the Mysterious East
Author: Kuriyama Miyako
Contents: details the love life of a courtesan
Pilot Book of Portolan Charts of the Southern Sea
Author: Morgan the Deckape
Poultice Preparation of the Mysterious East
Author: Kai Shun
Pretty Ponies & Flourishing Pennants
Author: Tellian Lancebearer
Contents: this guide is broken into six chapters. The first chapter details the selection based on age, general health, and personality, training, currying, hoofing, and grooming of horses. The second chapter details the selection, proper use, and maintenance of horse tack and barding. Chapter three covers riding techniques, training, and tactics. The fourth chapter explains the arms & armament of light cavalry primarily lightly armored mounted archers and their employment in combat as harassment, scouts, and screening. Chapter five covers the accouterments of medium cavalry dubbed lancers for their medium armor, shields, and use of spears or light lances as well as their tactical employment as skirmishers and raiders. The last chapter details the use of heavily armored and armed cavalry alluded to as armored cavalry, but the author constantly references knights using heavy lances, swords, maces, picks, and axes with shields to be used as shock troops for direct engagement with the enemy.
Primal Pygmies
Contents: Small Humanoids
Privateering for Fun & Profit
Author: Captain Jack Greybeard
Contents: the detailed account of a 35 year successful career pirate's adventures
Proselytizing Sects Guide
Contents: How the author was annoyed by six different preaching worshipers.
Psychokinetic Domination
Author: Altgräfin Wurmbrand Von Stuppach
Contents: physical psionics
Punsters' Popup Book of Practical Jokes
Author: Staniel the spaniel
Contents: the badly sketched illustrations pop right out at you; included are the bird in the pie, a bucket filled with blue confetti, a pie in the face, the 'Trojan' horse out of which pop little men, clacking teeth, googly eye spectacles, a rubber chicken, joy buzzer, snake in a can, an edition of 78 pickup tarot deck, the tipped outhouse usually filled with some sort of fake doggy doo, a review of the Catapult War which promptly launches it's spongy projectile, a well illustrated series of paintings of a garden gnome in front of famous landmarks--the gnome popups up for each painting,
Purse Cutter's Primer
Author: Sneaky Pete
Contents: a guide on how to filch coin purses and money bags from unsuspecting marks, it includes information on the difficulty in acquiring these containers based on where they are carried around the neck, slung from a belt, in a pocket, under a sash, carried under outer clothes, etc. in addition, there is some discussion as to the type, size, and shape of useful purse-cutting razors & knives, as well as advice on how to approach marks, evade detection, and vacate the area unremarkably
Radiesthesia Readings
Author: Uriah Keller
Contents: aura detection & interpretation
Ramblings of the Zany
Author: Doctor Know
Contents: a collection of political satires included with a collection of badly illustrated sketches of jesters and their paraphernalia; also included is a small flip book depicting death with a scythe and a fool's motley harvesting souls.
Reefs & Shoals of the Inner Sea
Author: Hesyas Seablade
Referendum for Reeves
Contents: Different types of reeves attested before the Conquest include the high-reeve, town-reeve, port-reeve, shire-reeve predecessor to the sheriff, reeve of the hundred and the reeve in charge of an estate.
Revelations of Midnight & Twilight
Author: Lacrisor, Named Augur
Contents: magical detection
Revelations of Kyraeth
Author: Kyraeth, Named Sorceror
Revelations on Inner Art
Author: Jeanne Gris
Contents: book is nominally about creating various artistic effects, but actually serves to focus one's powers and abilities on thought photography, with techniques for developing kirilian images and displaying auras and spirits
Rites & Rituals of Prophetic Sects
Contents: A collection of over 100 prophecies, predictions, dreams, and visions collected from 14 oracles, seers, prophets, sibyls, and stylites.
Roc Riding & Peryton Piloting
Author: Jakeld Banehigh & Harad Brownfang
Rogue's Gallery, volume 7
Author: Various authors
Contents: profiles 30 master criminals, covering their modus operandi, "feats", known aliases, physical description, and idiosyncrasies
Rooftop Referendum
Author: Fast Zaus
Contents: cat burglar; information on roof types, wall types, wall and roof defensive measures, as well as how to jump and climb silently
Rope Tying and Knotting
Author: Zelcan Freeclaw
Rousing Dances of the Utter South
Author: Foxxy Shakeshertale
Contents: the spear dance, fire-jumper dance, waha dance a posture dance performed by a group, with vigorous movements and stamping of the feet with rhythmically shouted accompaniment, Okey-cokey which resembles the hokey-pokey, marvelous monkey dance, rain dance, drunken dervish, the Temporal Twist, and the Whipweilder's Walk
Rust & Rot: Sergeant Smiley's Arms & Armor Maintenance Manual
Author: Sergeant Smiley
Contents: written in the simplest of common prose, this easy to understand manual goes into great detail into the amount and time of work needed to properly maintain canvas, leather, iron, and steel accoutrements of war, cleaning, scouring, oiling, and polishing are all given in-depth coverage, with special attention to properly drying and storing one's arms and armor when not in use, while traveling, and after battles. Sergeant Smiley's strict approach to cleanliness is often under-appreciated by officers of combat units, though lavishly respected for the crisp look it provides to parade soldiers. Privates on the other hand, are known to groan and grumble at the thought of one of Sergeant smiley's Special Inspections.
Sailor's Sea Chantey Rutter
Author: Salty Simon
Contents: considered the standard stockpile of sailing shanties, horator tempos, bosun pipings, jig reels, sounding calls, and bell tolling of the watches
Sand & Sun
Author: Anarien the Outlander
Contents: desert survival
Sap & Shiv
Author: Deneth Son of Filch
Contents: a rogues guide to weapons & weapon improvisation; coshes, saps, sap gloves/weighted knuckle gloves, chainlocks, slapjack, blackjacks, shivs, shanks, knuckledusters & fistloads; also included are specialized combat moves such as the "Colombian Neck Tie," "Glasgow Smile," "Fishhook"
Satirical Plays of the Western Kingdoms
Author: Vilhelm Quaking-Spear
Contents: famously funny plays such as Gromeo & Jharkalet concerning two dumb-struck orcish lovers from feuding tribes, Henlek and the Fifth the bumbling life of an alcoholic nobleman, Luigi Kaisar concerning several attempts by an inept assassin to kill a king, Meatbreath a love triangle between a butcher and his son concerning the object of their affections, King Leer the improbable story of how a jester known for his humor happened to marry the king's daughter, and Oh, Hello: the Boor of Veruca one of the more popular plays, this is the story of a great general, his daughter, the boring fop attempting to woo her, and the great general's midget manservant whose duty is to stop the fop
Savage Stalkers
Contents: Beast Felines
Scharfrichter's Mordbuch
Contents: Murder book (Scharfrichter German for executioner)
Scimitars & Sickle-Swords
Author: Hanjar Al-Hafayai
Contents: blades of the near eastern empire; scimitars, sickle swords, kopesh, yataghans, sapara, saif, tulwar, shamshir, and kilij; also included is minor coverage of various curved daggers, such as jambiya, khanjar, and zirah bouk
Scourges from the Sands
Contents: Desert Beasts?
Seaman's Guide to Sailing
Author: Salty Simon
Shew Stone
Author: unknown creator
Contents: aka Prism of Power, this crystal is actually a book which can only be read by psychics who open themselves to the stone
Shinpu Emakimono
Author: Sugawara Hiroyuki
Description: washi scroll
Contents: charms scroll; Japanese paper magic
Author: Sugawara Hiroyuki
Description: washi scroll
Contents: charms scroll; Japanese paper magic
Ship's Logbook of the Singing Dwarf
Author: Willem Wavefarer
Contents: Flying Dutchman; includes the binnacle list, clean bill of health, & letters of marque
Binnacle List A ship's sick list. The list of men unable to report for duty was given to the officer or mate of the watch by the ship's surgeon. The list was kept at the binnacle.
Clean bill of health – A certificate issued by a port indicating that the ship carries no infectious diseases. Also called a pratique.
Shrines of the Shamantic Cults
Contents: The location and nature of a dozen shamanistic shrines.
Skaldic Sagas of the Frozen North
Author: Skald Víðarr Skallagrimson
Contents: tales of outwitting trolls, ogres, & giants, horror stories of Norse undead, as well as several flytings, a couple of kennings, but mostly "epic" sagas detailing the amount and types of blood and brains splattered on various 'heroes' of the Frozen North, and their famed weapons used, women "wooed", and livestock stolen
Slither and Slime
Contents: Beast Serpents & Worms
Snares & Traps for Small Game
Author: Stilicat Clawsky
Somatic Seals & Instruments of Thought
Author: She Ju
Description: orihon
Contents: mudra & mantra 108 mudra & mantra 56 of each
Author: She Ju
Description: orihon
Contents: mudra & mantra 108 mudra & mantra 56 of each
Stable Management of Human Resources
Author: Getja Dabooti
Contents: This primer details the selection & training of male and female prostitutes from brazen strumpets to haughty courtesans. Also included are chapters on maintaining 'fashionable' attire, the creation and usage of pimp sticks and canes, and an entire chapter devoted to the proper techniques of the pimp slap
Story Teller's Treasury of Engrossing Epics
Author: Solevig Reardon
Contents: interestingly enough, there are no engrossing epics, triumphant tales, yearning yarns, children's bedtime stories, awesome accounts, fantastic fairy tales or other such narratives contained within this work, rather it gives rather detailed information on the art of story telling, how to speak, improvisation and embellishment, the use of symbolism and word selection containing an index of adjectives, as well as a primitive thesaurus, and a vocabularium of onomatopoeias, particularly animal sounds, weather sounds, and the sounds of fighting; it concludes with a rather detailed story classification system for different types of stories with the main categories of Animal Fables, Heroic Epics, Fairy Tales, Religious Parables, Ghost Stories, Stories of the Stupid Ogre, Tales of the Trickable Troll, Humorous Anecdotes, Whodunit's & Murder Mysteries, and Vegetative Allegories; each divided into one hundred separate sub-categories
Surprise Sacks
Author: Shamgakh of Tribe Death Claw
Contents: an orcish guide to looting, plundering, & pillaging; including how and when one should engage in arson, overcoming local garrisons and militias, and the best methods of transporting one's acquired goods
Swimming in Shit: Sewer Survival
Author: Skytt Heckler
Contents: a guide to using a city's sewer, storm drain, cellar, and catacomb networks, with brief chapters on subterranean flora & fauna benign toffsmen & malign...such as sewer rats, sewer gators, wererats, undead, and other criminals, concealing access points, constructing new tunnels to connect the networks, the benefits and dangers of navigating with little/limited illumination or no illumination, and, of course, the problems associated with actually swimming in sewage and how to deal with them
Technology Faiths
Contents: Purported rituals of inventors guilds, "scientists," "mad sorcerers," and automaton creators.
Terrorized to Death: The Dangers of Clowns and Mimes
Author: Cyrillus Dancerbane
Testament of Githkos
Author: Githkos, Named Summoner
The Art of Ambush
Author: Daliurr Wolfwave
The Art of Stilt Walking
Author: Urran Chavarson
Contents: written by a dwarf shepherd of the Moors of the Near North.
The Art of War in the Mysterious East
Author: Ostensibly by Ching Xue
Contents: an unsurprisingly ripped off work from a famous military general of the Mysterious East
The Black Book of Archmagister Shallefex
Contents: necromancy
The Blazing Grimoire
Author: Irradior, Named Fire Mage
Contents; Fire Magic
The Blue Book of Archmagister Shallefex
Contents: incantations
The Brigandage Survival Guide
Author: Bannos Staffclaw
Contents: details the best types of targets to rob/kidnap such as lightly guarded noble coaches & carriages, noble or knightly hunting parties, military pay caravans, prosperous clerics, and wealthy merchants, ambush points along roads primarily at bridges, fords, forest bends, marshland causeways, and mountain passes, and the selection of secure campsites often caves, forest clearings, swamp/bog/fen hummocks & islets, hill tops, & mountain plateaus, and selecting areas of operation based on the proximity to neutral or friendly borders one can cross while fleeing from authorities
The Castaway's Concordance pirate
Author: Nefarious Benedict
Contents: including how to escape being marooned by using back hair to lasso sea turtles into a raft
The Complete Counterfeiter's Concordance
Author: Tirada Slyfang
Contents: despite the title, this text deals primarily with the skills and materials needed to successfully forge documents, though it touches on the etiquette such as it is of being a mercantile forger in the black market, with advice on how to avoid being identified by officials while still making an income
The Deceiving Duck
Author: Shadgith
Contents: This book contains several formula for various medicines of dubious quality, primarily chosen for their tasty exotic flavors, rather than any actual healing properties. Interestingly, most of the formula are directly copied from Secrets of Snake Oil, with the rest being taken from Common Cures. Some of these cribbed formula have added ingredients however, usually the addition of spices or herbs believed to have soothing or healing properties, but primarily selected for their flavor.
The Forester's Folly
Author: Cykes Lytestep
The Gladiator's Guidebook
Author: Sisenna Varius Censorinus
Contents: pretty much standard faire for the roman gladiator
The Green Book of Archmagister Shallefex
Contents: glamours, alteration, & shapeshifting
The Illuminated Manuscript of Fisticuffs
Author: Kwo Chi the Thouthful One
Contents: A martial arts manual
The Indigo Book of Archmagister Shallefex
Contents: conjuring items magic
The Jongleur's Journal
Author: Gylian Vieler (f)
Contents: contains songs that you just can't seem to get out of your head, including some annoyingly addictive and relatively easy, though inane dance numbers
The Kidnapper's Manifesto
Author: Ghostbash the Vivisector
The Luminiferous Aether Letters
Contents: a collection of letters between two persons , Kyraes & Yarcor, discussing the etheric plane
The Mahout Manuscript
Author: Pahan Cornac
Contents: on the types & selection of elephants, training with the ankus, throtti, valiya kol, & cheru kol; building and attaching howdaws; use in warfare, include castled elephants, elephantry, engineering use, armoring & arming i.e. the application of blades to the tusks, heavy iron chains with steel balls at the end were tied to the trunks of war elephants, which the animals were trained to swirl menacingly and with great skill; use as archery platforms & how to avoid being panicked by the use of war pigs pigs covered in oil and set alight
The Merry Highwayman's Quarterstaff Quarterly
Author: Lytle Jonsson
Contents: while primarily focusing on the quarter staff, the singlestick is also covered, as well as improvising with a bow staff
The Northern Book of War
Author: Sven Thorsson
Contents: Saga of the Barbarians of the Frozen North; how to fight with small shield & hand axe, torch/fire log, sword, and spear; describes the roles and armaments of huskarls & hirds of the petty kingdoms of the Frozen North, as well as their feuds, raids, and skirmishes
The Orange Book of Archmagister Shallefex
Contents: magical detection
The Puppet Master's Progeny
Author: Josef Polichinelle
The Red Book of Archmagister Shallefex
Contents: magic grimoire about augmentation magic
The Sanguine Stranger
Author: Burke Throttler
Contents: Garrotte & Strangling Cord assassination guide, with notes on burking, throttling, sanguineous asphyxiation, and carotid restraint
The Southern Book of War
Author: Rachida (f)
Contents: Spears of the Utter South; also covered are shields, hurlbats, and sword-spears; discusses both the tribal wars of the Utter South, as well as the conflicts along the Desolate Desert trade routes, involving dervish, baytouin, and mazigheen raids on camel caravans as well as military outposts and forts protecting the trade routes to Tamboktoh, Zanzarkand, and Axulis
The Stonebender Summaries
Contents: dwarven psychokinetic research, derisively known as "The Spoonbender's Silliness."
The Transluminal Tome
Author: Adele Voynich
Contents: developing psychic powers of the spirit
The Violet Book of Archmagister Shallefex
Contents: enchanting items; talismans, amulets, & curse tablets
The War Wyvern
Author: Uroghok Dark Rock
The White Book of Archmagister Shallefex
Contents: healing magic
The Yellow Gold Book of Archmagister Shallefex
Contents: high wizardry & thaumaturgy
Thespian Tome
Author: Gholson Tague bard
Contents: known for it's infamously bad writing, see William Topaz McGonagall
Toby the Troubador's Rhyming Ballads
Author: the listed author
Contents: various tragic, historical, romantic, and comedic ballads composed in iambic pentameter, using rhyming conventions of the common people; quite popular
Tomb Robber Tales
Author: Henry Walton Jones the Younger
Contents: A collection of 34 tales referenced by artifact, the majority of which are concerned with various pillages of the pyramid tombs of the Utter South; jeweled mask, royal scepter, pharoah's crook & flail, magic staff, canopic jars, book of the dead, gold diamond, ark of the covenant, Seal of Salomon ring, Key of Salomon, King Salomon's Mines, Makeda Balqis (Queen of Saba's) Crown & Throne, Al ad-Din's Djinn Lamp, Al ad-Din's Bronze Ring, the treasure cave of the 40 thieves (primarily focuses on the magic oil jars of concealment), Sindhi the Sailor's Sea Horse Stable; Roc's Egg; Cyclops' Eye; Jug of Endless Water; Wine Amorpha of the Old Man of the Sea; Ruby Cup of Serendipity; Golden Staff of the Heavens, Golden Idol of the cannibals of the Dark Jungle, Eye of Horus, Poseidon's Trident, and the Amulet of Set. A half dozen cover raids on tombs and temples in the Mysterious East; mystical dagger phurba, sacred stones, magic mirror, dragon's pearl, an emperorer's jade burial suit, and a magical spear. And a few deal with the plundering of lost cities of the Western Kingdoms; Atlantis, lance of longinus, & holy grail. Two however, deal with short escapades among the barrows of the Frozen North mjollnir & spear of odin. Some of the stories are apocryphal, and several appear to actually concern other famous tomb raiders. Of note are the accounts of encounters with various undead primarily mummies & skeletons, crocodiles, scorpions, snakes (on which great detail is lavished), spiders (often giant), snake people, lizardmen, cultists of a death goddess, sorcerer-kings, witch-kings, runic cultists from the Western Kingdoms, and criminal syndicates from the Mysterious East
Tome of Corcan
Author: Corcan, Named Dweomermaster
Tome of Sanguine Savagery
Contents: Blood Drinkers
Traditional Faiths of Ancestor Worship
Contents: Covers six different groups which worship their ancestors.
Trailblazer Treatise
Author: Teeve Hardswing
Treatise on Thought Police
Author: Xavier Zenor
Contents: developing mental barriers to resist psychic influences
Under the Shining Moon
Author: Drave the Weasel
Contents: covers the ancient arts of brewing & distilling; including the design & construction of pot stills for the distillation of moonshine, white lightning, & rotgut; the brewing of beer, mead, hard cider, and wine; and how to sell the same in regulated economies
Unliving Survival Guide
Contents: Undead - Walking Corpses
Unsavory Anecdotes of a River Dacoit
Author: Thug Behram
Contents: detailed accounts of over 931 fatal stabbings, ritual strangulations, decapitations, defenestrations, beatings, muggings, and robberies attributed to a notorious dacoit jemadar
Varmint Referendum
Contents: Beast Rodents & lagomorphs
War Wagon of Xyr
Author: Phenn the Adept
Contents: Xyr, Master of Battle Magicks;
Warfare in the Western Kingdoms
Author: Viscount Arygann Shadyassol
Contents: more of a history book than a manual of strategy & tactics, this manuscript covers the more famous battles, sieges and wars of the Western Kingdoms; included are accounts of The Last Stand at the Hot Gates, the Great Skirmish of Kann Hill, the Sacking of Rhum by the Ransak Tribe, the Second Rhummane Civil War, the Slave Revolt of 887, the Naval Duel at Sen Galla, the Southern Conquests of Leomagnos, the Invasions of the Ashmen of the Frozen North, the Clan Clashes with the Border Reivers of the Northern Marches, the Contractor Conflicts of the Papallian City States, The Chivalric Crusades all 6 of them, the 25 Years' War, the Conflict of the Crocuses, the Landsnecht Mutiny, the Conflicts of the Healing Monks & Temple Paladins, the Siege of Byzstantinople, and the Capplain-MacShy Feud
Weaving Bear Baiting Baskets
Author: Ranger Smith
Western Ocean Rutter & Celestial Navigation Almanac
Author: Marner Skipwright
Witching Rod Epigrams
Author: Madame Clio
Contents: dowsing, includes the types & construction of dowsing rods and devices
Yarkos' Book of Secrets
Author: Yarkos, Named Hedge Wizard
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