Your party are granted unfettered access to the largest library; private or public, in your setting.
One of them grabs a book from a shelf:
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What do they find?
>Roll and random title
>Give a short blurb and the author of said book.
>If you want to tailor it to your specific setting, that's fine.
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>Soldier Of Stone
A story about a golem guard who finds himself defending an abandoned Fortress.
>Secrets of Orbital Flight
A manual filled with unknowable script, strange schematics, and severely advanced mathematics. Those with planar knowledge or experience can begin to deduce the mysteries therein and discover the obvious.
>Signs in the Forest
No one has the guts to open it.
>Fish Of The End
Some kind of straight up heretical shit from some Deep worshipers. If the imperial library is not just subverted, but so thuroughly subverted that they feel confident to just leave this kind of shit sitting openly on their shelves, then these are truly dark times indeed.
Obviously, everyone involved is going to have to die.
>Forsaking the Slaves
An ahead-of-its-time thesis about slavery, freedom, human's rights, and stuff. The writer got beheaded for it. You feel kinda bad for him but you put the book back on the shelves with a nudge.
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Wolves and Aliens
Written by Unknown......Translated from Draconic, which was translated from unknown
In the days before the rise of the Gods, before man walked the planet, a star fell from the nights sky and crashed into the valley of a mountain. From the star stepped a tall figure, greenish in color, with a swollen head, and 4 eye. The creature walked about, touching various trees and rocks. When it reached a small brook, it paused, and began glowing a bright blue color. The creature seemed happy.
Near the brook, a wolf rose from it's sleep, and watched the creature. The wolf was not familiar with the sight or smell of the creature. The Wolf approached the creature slowly, the creature raised it's many arms up and a flicker of light went forth from it's head, and covered the wolf. The wolf was undaunted and took another step forward.
The creature tried again, to use it's psionics and make contact with this odd creature that walked on 4 legs. The creature was certain that there was some intelligence there, but it could get no response from the wolf. It tried again, to send waves of pure emotion to the wolf, and explain that it's people were searching the stars for water, and that it had found a great source finally, on this planet.
The wolf lunged and ripped a large chunk of the creatures face off. The creature fell and tried again to send telepathic communications to the wolf, explaining that it means no harm.
The wolf paused a moment, it's fangs hovering over the now prone creature.
"Finally this dull beast understands me" thought the creature.
The wolf snarled a bit...
"i understood you all along creature, but wolves simply aren't interested in what you think"
With that thought, the wolf then killed and devoured the creature, and went back to it's rest.
Oddly, in the back of the book is a crude map that could possibly be translated, and shows some type of ship buried in the side of a mountain.......
>Officers and Horses
An acerbic journal/memoir of an infantryman involved in the Great Siege of the Eastern Redoubt. Tends to be popular among the footsloggers, mostly for its observation that "when marching behind the officers on their horses, all you see are asses".
>Boys and Swindlers
A semi-autobiographical tale written by a sellsword about his youth in the country and how he got involved in adventuring after he and his friends inadvertently discovered a bandit troop's hideout deep within the forest. The book is almost universally beloved, with young men praising its action, young women dreaming of its protagonist, and older folks finding the vivid descriptions of the countryside nostalgic.
Snake Of Glory
by B. Boss
A tale of a soldier betrayed by his own homeland.
would read again
>Fiends and Butchers
>An anonymous guidebook to the notable methods of meat preparation in the Nine Hells, as well as the types of creature used for meat
Tortoise of Terror
>Most same wizards don't use tortoise magic but this book tells you of it all. The mythic relation of tortoises and fear based wizardry is dubious at best but each spell in the book guarantees not just your enemies pantshitting terror madness but all of the surrounding countryside too. Along with the user.
Books? In the Universal Database? Weird. Oh well, let's try:
>Heir Of The World
Seems to be a self-help book for rebuilding a global civilization in post-apocalyptic conditions.
>demons of fortune
This book chronicles the rise a half breed demons, in a mostly neutral light, into a civilized race after a revolt of their demon rulers. If that's something you're into it could be an interesting read, but it's basically an ancient text by the PCs standards.
>Lord of Yesterday
A collection of stories, journals, notes, accounts and other information regarding an entity that dwells in Time That Was, an unspeakable king of all that has come and gone, but which might be communicated with, perhaps even striking a bargain for strange and eldritch prices by the proper rites.
The author never gives their own name, but notes that they hope to use this knowledge to bring back their time-lost wife, Aliya.
>A Country Without Conscience
A Machiavellian guide teaching one the finer points of corrupting populations, convincing free civilizations to embrace tyranny and promote the worship of evil gods.
The tone is notably dismissive of mortals and assumes the reader has more than a single lifetime to completely corrode the moral fabric of society.
This thick tome is bound in preserved elf skin and written by the Demon Culuzaroch on paper taken from a fallen elven Citytree.
A single lock of blonde elf hair is used as bookmark.
>Defender of the Lost Ones
They can't read. None of them. Nevertheless, the pictures of the knight willing to protect strangers instills a sense of purpose, making them feel warm inside. That's what they want to do.
>The Death of Time
Considering that our party would be in the Black Library, I don't think we would bother with random books. This book would probably have to do with the End Times
Also, I'd slap the GM for letting us into the Black Library
>Rats And Men
A story of two adventurers determined to find a place for themselves. The bulky man is an eccentric but kind warrior with a love for animals, while his scrawnier companion is a skilled marksman whose quick-thinking has allowed them to get out of trouble thus far.
>dogs with money
A lurid exposé about what wealthy Vargr get up to behind closed doors.
>Life in the World
An account of outside affairs written for a strict monastic order, ostensibly to assist them in the business dealings that sustain them but actually filled with salacious details.
>Pleasing the Sea
This serious-looking tome contains details of Thalassa and Pontus's home life you can't imagine they willingly shared. You'll never look at a conch the same way.
>Queen with Vigor
After spending many a night with Lifts-Her-Tail, Crantius Colto decides to pursue a goal that is more upper-class. Unfortunately(or fortunately) for him, there is no class to be found in the company of Her Majesty, Queen Loudica.
A novella by Crassius Curio.
>Witches and Horses
A detailed history of the horse as a familiar, covering both fact and mythology; horse abduction, the function of an equine familiar across multiple cultures, stories of particular men and women being turned into horses, the usage of various horse parts in witchcraft and more are presented in a neutral, academic tone. The book itself is bound in horse leather. The pages are fixed to the spine via horse hair and glue made from horse bone.
>Child Behind You
Yea, my PCs didn't stay in the library long
>Pleasing The Forest
A best selling romance novel about the doomed love of a soldier-turned farmer and the dryad he rescues from the local barons overzealous lumber business
...
>Obliteration of the South
A tale of how the northern industrial powers teamed up to kick the shit out of the southern nations and proceeded to purge them from existence. Nothing remains of what came before.
>inb4 Confederates
Warrior Of Tomorrow
A time traveling cyberwarrior shows up in the past to fuck shit up
>changeling of sorrow
On the surface it appears to be a cheap romance novel written from the perspective of a shapeshifter who falls in love with a woman but despairs that she will never love their true form.
On deeper inspection the book is actually quite well written and contains a cipher which reveals some of the better ways of identifying if someone is actually a doppelganger.
Will there be bunnies on the farm?
>Still breathing in the future
A self help guide for how best to keep on living as an organic being post-singularity. Written by a well meaning if rather condescending god-machine
Alternatively a manual on undead hunting.
>Boy of the Curse
>The Authoress is Eirenna Alighieri, elven tracker, aide, and wife of the famed adventurer Celio Aligheri.
>The book is seen as a companion to her husbands travelogues, as it gives Eirenna's point of view which lacks her husband's rose-tinted glasses and sunny optimism for the more real assessment that Celio was either cursed with the worst luck ever for ending up in the situations they did. Or blessed with the best of luck neither of them ever suffered more than mild fractures and concussions from them.
Of course, along with an alfalfa patch tended by the warrior for them to feed on.
>Vultures And Creators
It was written by one Mr. Lucious Quader an extermely small time noble of a town known as Ambergrove come business tycoon who has spent a great deal of time digging into the various myths and legends of the world.
The book details Mr. Quader's theory that while some modern stories are original creations a majority come from people picking at stories, much like vultures at a corpses, and adapting what they like into something they claim is original. Furthermore Mr. Quader notes the extreme similarities between various areas myths and theorizes that all sentient races have ingrained within them some sort of basic psychological template that is altered into unique form by ones life experiences.
I'll just pootis here
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>Guardian of the Plague
A story about an immortal creature born with a terrible illness. Knowing that this illness could wipe out any creature it comes into contact with it attempts to stay as far away from all forms of life as possible. With humanity multiplying and spreading out staying hidden has become more and more difficult.
Thats super meta, dude.
>Fish with gold.
The party just found their next plot hook.
Motherfucker just created Fantasy Carl Jung.
>Symbols in the Gods
An esoteric book about the skin patterns, measurents and involuntary body language of Gods and how to copy them to be more godlike.
Basically a theological Cosmo.
>Visiting the Abyss
Wil H. Schneitz
A vast tome of black bound leather and iron filigree. It speaks of a hopeless world without gods and the means to achieve Power from the Abyss. As you continue to read you feel a growing unease. The feeling that something, somewhere has become aware of you...
Here is another
>Bathing in the graves
A guide to most undead friendly holiday resorts. Including hot springs at Mausoleum of Kermit the Boiled and picturesque sanitarium of Mt. Kierkegaard perfect for recovering from angsts of eternal unlife.
Written by Hapu Set, son of judge Magna Set.
>What do they find?
>Blacksmith Without Shame
The memoirs of a (surprisingly) female blacksmith whom specialized in bikini armor for female warriors.
>Welcome to the Dungeons
A timeless classic. Bring a ten feet pole.
All generated names so gud.
>Thief Of Utopia
Story about a jerk-ass thief that planned to rob Heaven itself successfully stealing a hoard of treasures and then eventually regretting it, turning good and returning it.
>Defender Of The Night
Story of adventures of "one good vampire". Super agnsty and super noble bloodsucker searching for, ripping and tearing his fellow night haunters.
>Foes With Gold
It's just Monster Manual.
>Gods Of The Curse
Schism among the gods that resulted in a bunch of them being banished into the abyss, where some of them became lords of demons. Book discusses possible causes of such schism, describes the outcast divinities.
>Women And Wolves
A book about wild forest half-men that don't do much but revel in whatever they want to, be it sex, fight, or excessive eating, or all at once. The priest-mages of those anarchic peoples can lure women and children into forests with their melodies. Maybe they just don't want to lure adult men.
>Ruination Of Dreams
Another apocalyptic prophesy. I would just roll for some shit from Elder Evils book and retell chunks of it.
>Bane Of Despair
Biography of the best paladin to ever walk the setting, to whom 3 knightly orders are devoted, and whose blade - Bane of Despair - is held hidden by the undead creatures that fear its power and can't destroy or corrupt it.
>Becoming Secrets
A handbook of spies of Ulm. Contains advice on creating cyphers, avoiding giving information while getting as much as possible yourself, self-control excercises, and so on.
>Blood At The Moon
Insane ramblings of some poor scholar about what turns out to be Atropus.
>Demons following me
>Culling of the North
Oddly apt for the setting
And this is why we don't go across the border with the boundary stones marking it. Just because nobody lives there does not mean it's uninhabited.
>Mice Of The World
An anthropological study of the hidden society of mice and the cities that lie beneath the streets and behind the walls of human civilisation
I thought it was a cook book.
>Assassin Without Hope
After yet another successful mission, Calyus feels hollow. Being the best at his craft was supposed to be something amazing and legendary, but never being caught has implied framing and not leaving any sort of calling card.
This book contains tales of murder from the best assassin the world has never seen, along with a small blurb calling you to tell his tale often and loud.
>Guardian Without Time
The capital was on fire and the palace full of demons, with a madman praising a demon prince standing before him and their planned sacrifice of the royal family at midnight of the solstice, the last guardsman decided to raid their fortress with whatever forces he can muster before three days pass and the moon raises.
>Women Of Destruction
An extremely heretical treatise comparing Juiblex and Glasya.
Both demons and devils seek the book to destroy it, and would pay well.
>Doctors Of History
No one knows if it tells a story or history, but no one would be really surprised if given the means, a wizard tried to unravel history or that someone would have stopped him.
>Bandits And Dogs
Just a simple collection of tales from an old royal messenger about the trials he faced and the clever solutions he applied. Loved by children.
>Rats And Serpents
A vermin friend's guide to pest removal without harm and how to make and enchant verminguard fetishes.
Yeah I did. Good eye user.
>Giants Of The Titans
A retelling of the Titan creation myth of how the land was raised from the sea by beings that are to titans as they are to humans.
>The Pirate Without Hope
This controversial children's book is banned from most coastal communities.
Serpent without Sin
A fallen hero attempts to get back his past, with the help of a few old acquaintences.