Where are the forbidden tomes, the shards of forgotten lore? So I made a little listy thing. Your mileage may vary.
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The...
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of...
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contains...
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1
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Moon-touched
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Journal
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Saikomi Ka
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a population map of the dark side of the moon dated from one year hence (with notes on recent developments)
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2
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Demon-wrought
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Tome
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Ibn Battuta
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one hundred ways to convince someone to die by their own hand (a random three work on any given person, but using three incorrectly makes them immune to all)
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3
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Luck-scorned
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Annals
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Beobert Rothmund
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the method of shedding one’s skin to grow (can continue manyfold)
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4
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Twice-drowned
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Chronicles
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Tannhauser Gate
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a well-known national hero’s story, but revealing the truth (his cowardice and the evil it caused)
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5
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Golem-borne
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Stele
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Dissident Priests
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a pressed flower from the Buried Gardens of Ur, sickly sweet and muddy. It charms earthen creatures and calls the bearer downward
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6
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Giant-watched
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Parchment
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the Silvering Path
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a drawing of a formulaic braille-key to the grinding Pyramid Calculative, quietly clicking
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7
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Lich-woven
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Papyrus
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the Honored Dead
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preserved skin-scrip from the Mummified Market, valuable to Nyarlathotep's slaver-priests
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8
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Basilisk-wrapped
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Slate
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Westford School
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notes on discerning venomous arthropods (and on living as one of them)
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9
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Frost-etched
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Manuscript
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Birds, Summated
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instructions to the path between stars (your heart will traverse it endlessly, with or without your body. It will never rest. You will never again be at home wherever you go)
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10
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Unguarded
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Text
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Sun’s Dark Sister
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guide to speech with the spirits of the sun (they are knowledgeable about many things but asking more than one question alerts their uncalled siblings. Shadowy companions seem to follow you in the memory of others, though never in the present. Eventually those around you begin to be killed by the dark sisters)
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11
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Far-flung
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Atlas
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the Middling Kings
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a process whereby the doors of far-future time could be unlocked (their contents flood into your body, your mind, your home. You are now future)
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12
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Unctuous
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Papers
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Salt and Glass
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a history of a violent people who never lived. Reading it further causes history to change to fit
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13
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Gods-forsaken
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Folio
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Western Queens
| a massive genealogy, revealing the breeding machinations of an ancient order of witches (you may be related to this culminating person, or not, but you are in a position to help complete this plot. The sleeper must awake) |
14
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Thrice-scribed
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Codex
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the War Without
| knowledge of 4th dimensional movement and its application to unarmed combat |
15
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Willfully-lost
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Glyphs
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Demonshame
| a living inscription; reading it will make it crawl onto your skin and hide under your clothes until a more suitable host comes along. You have no idea what makes a suitable host or what it even wants. It looks horrible |
16
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Bile-filled
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Monument
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Massa di Requiem par Shuggay
| instructions on the summoning and binding of a white demon (depicts a dove, but insists that the protective circles are necessary, that it is a being of pure evil, and that it has some ancient and inscrutable plan to which you are an insect in comparison) |
17
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Chewed/mangled
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Octavo
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the Burnt Emperor
| memories of your past lives. Gain their wisdom and experience but also their trauma: ember rings traced into your skin, lungs half full of water, a hyena snatches your liver |
18
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Wight-fed
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Excerpt
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Lost Opak-Re
| musings from the Mirror of Prophetic Irrelevance (it is signed up to a varied but arbitrary collection of twitter feeds) |
19
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Wood-warded
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Writings
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Prusalto Gabon
| observations of Gnollish frenzy-fires and the spirits they call |
20
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Elf-cursed
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Legend
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A Faire Wood Withering
| blood-writ runes that would call the demons of the fifth and seventh planets (the sixth planet is itself a demon) |
Apologies to Clark Ashton Smith, and various others.
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