“Book of Tracks”
This 50‑page folio contains accurate drawings of tracks of various animals, humanoids and monsters of Sarnout, as well as notes on stride length and depth of step, and other similar useful information. Studying the folio for 10 minutes gives +2 to Survival and Nature to identify a creature from its tracks, although use of footwear makes identification of many humanoids difficult or impossible.
Author: Senior Jaeger Stanislav Medvedin
Price: 6 imperials
Bulk: L
Footprint Cast (comes with the "Book of Tracks" folio)
This quick‑drying cast is ideal for taking footprints to study later. Spending 1 minute to apply the cast and waiting for it to dry allows you to copy tracks.
Bulk: L
“Living with Lycanthropy”
By studying this handbook for an hour, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Sense Motive, Lie and Diplomacy when interacting with werewolves or searching for or in a werewolf's lair, until the next daily preparations.
Author: anonymous
Price: 6 imperials
Bulk: L
“Book of Letters”
This reference contains examples of official letters with proper forms of address, etiquette and turns of phrase. It’s used by bureaucrats, diplomats and clerks, and also useful for forging government documents. It grants +1 to Diplomacy when interacting with city officials and +1 circumstance bonus to create forgery. The Book of Letters is accurate only for the Imperial bureaucracy.
Author: Maxim Segonin
Price: 5 imperials
Bulk: L
“Book of Puzzles”
This book contains 10 puzzles designed to challenge the reader’s mind and stimulate their intellect. Solving one puzzle requires at least an hour and a successful Crafting check with a Hard Level-Based DC. On Critical Success, reduce the time required to solve one puzzle by half. After solving one puzzle, for the next 24 hours, when you roll Craft, Int. Based Recall Knowledge or Perception to Seek, you roll twice and take the higher result. You don't choose whether to roll twice or not. When all puzzles are solved, the book becomes useless, although you may purchase another book with different puzzles.
Author: Association of Sacred Mathemagicians of Suslanger
Price: 8 imperials
Bulk: L
“Almanac of Nezeb's Military Prayers”
This small collection of Nezeb's military prayers in a soft leatherbound volume contains pages of thin parchment. You may read prayers aloud from this book prior to battle to encourage yourself and others before the coming trials. Reading the prayers takes 10 minutes. If you are reading it for yourself, you gain the Critical Success bonus automatically.
If you want to read it to the group of people, you must have a Group Impression skill feat.
Make a Diplomacy or Performance check with a Level-Based DC. On Success, you grant those who hear your prayers a +1 circumstance bonus to their next Will saving throw against emotion effects until the next daily preparations. On Critical Success, you give them a +2 circumstance bonus.
Author: Lavrentiy Pavinin
Price: 1 imperial
Bulk: L
“Cipher Books”
Two pairs of booklets containing numbered grids on each page that simply and easily catalogue random lists of words. This enables the user to write messages in which instead of letters and numbers, they indicate page, line and column of a specific word found in the cipher book. A creature without access to the corresponding cipher book takes a ‑10 penalty to checks to decipher each page of the encoded message. Writing a message using the cipher takes 10 times longer than writing an unencoded message, and decoding it with the cipher book takes the same amount of time as writing the original encoded message.
Author: Luka Flavin
Price: 15 imperials
Weight: L
“Book of Elven Heritage”
This is a collection of genealogical charts, descriptions of common traits inherent to the elven Great Houses, heraldry, dirty rumours and their deeds. It gives readers a lot of information about elven high society. Studying this book for an hour grants +2 circumstance bonus Society regarding an elven noble family.
Author: Imperial Book Chamber
Price: 25 imperials
Bulk: 1
“Tourist’s Dictionary”
Each of these guides is oriented towards a particular language and consists of two sections. The first presents a wide array of useful phrases and words in Hada (arranged by category) with a subsequent phonetic translation into the language for which the book is dedicated. The second section is an alphabetical (by phonetic spelling) selection of words and phrases in the second language and their approximate translation into Hada.
Author: Coalition of Imperial Travellers
Price: 5 imperials
Bulk: L