Griffon’s Scriptorium

A bookshop in the Idleworks Shelf in Hupperdook owned by Karuma

The party have bought several books here, and paid Karuma to help start translating Komani's sword.

## Books Purchased here

**Death and Willows by Tobias Dusan**​. A thick leaf-leather bound book with delicate pages. A record of the death mythology of the Willow River Elves Tribe. Willow trees are said to house the spirits of the dead and allow them to manifest a corporeal form for a short time. The ghosts of the willows are able to grant one wish to the living, which allows the ghost to become reincarnated. The gods use the granted wish to determine the reincarnated form of the ghost.

Llunet purchased this.

**The 9 Wolves You'll Meet by D.A. Tewksbury.** T​his book is 10 pages of thick cardstock bound with twine. On the inside cover is an humanoid ink handprint. The first page is blank and each of the 9 following pages contains an ink pressed wolf's paw of differing size, age and breed. The 5th paw print is huge and a deep crimson. The 9th print is the largest of all and is golden and opalescent

**A Book on the Tinkertop's Glider Designs**. Showing previous successes using minor charms and magic. These gliders were made for fun, not war.

Hartmut purchased this.

**The History of Tephra Book 2; Rising Tensions by Deldruth Travertine.**​ This is a stone-gray book written in Infernal.​ ​The City of Tephra became known for its mine, and was settled by Humans, Dwarves and Tieflings. Tephra's mine benefitted from its leyline with the feywild, imbuing the mined pitchstone with fae power. The Eladrin on the feywild plane felt that their realm was being exploited to empower dwarven weaponry. Many small clashes came as a result, but the princess was able to use a power she called the 'Dragon's Lightning' to defeat the elves.

Korvok initially looked at this, and after he declined, Moss purchased it

**Assorted Books in Draconic.** Llunet acquired a handful of Draconic texts to compare against the Draconic Poster Komani noted matches her sword.

## Komani's sword rubbing / Draconic poster Translation;

Impressively translated by Llunet, shortly after investigation began.

*"The Lurker*

*great observer of lilac eyes*

*I seek to know your minds desire,*

*my heart aflame of passion*

*fierce to know your present hiding place*

*seas apart and mountains high,*

*I seek to know your minds desire,*

*you stride amongst the mortal folk*

*though strike against light and dark*

*harken those of arch hearts guide*

*who seek to learn the lurkers secrets,*

*an amethyst chest bounds ancient wisdom*

*in a violent edge, the lurker stays hidden.*

*great worm of violet hide*

*I seek to know your minds desire,*

*time will douse my heart aflame,*

*were I to know your hiding place,*

*to live or die will be the same"*

## Other Events Here

Korvok asked for books on the Bonds of Bedlam - Karuma didn't know about them. Karuma was able to identify Mara Jezebeth from a description - she has visited the store in the last few days, and purchased fine parchment and ink. He also asked for books on great beasts, was offered the fantasy book (in infernal?) listed above and was disinterested. Gave Karuma 2 silver for his information. Karuma seemed annoyed.

Moss noticed some girls intending to steal and inexpertly tried to give them the money to pay - that did not seem to work.

Moss tried to buy elvish history, healing and plant books. Karuma suggested that there were more historical texts and non-fiction books at the Primator Palace Library.