Ava Mendax

Ava Mendax is an acclaimed gnome scholar and journalist based out of Silos Palirroia. Multiple winner of the prestigious Diur Kalypsi Award, holder of 14 Silver Quills, Chairwoman of the Young Writer's Alliance, and an Honorary Fellow of the Bibliotheca Imperium of Travers Peak, she stands of one of the most prolific and celebrated authors of her time. Her journalistic and scholarly works have been translated into dwarvish, gnomish, elvish, tabaxi, and draconic, with over 1,000,000 copies in print.

Known for her relentless pursuit of the truth along with a famously sharp tongue that earned her the love of readers world over, Ava has been the catalytic force in some of Borros' most noteworthy investigations into scandal and corruption. Her many adventures and published works aside, she's still best known for the book that launched her career: *The Legend of Banesbreak,* detailing the adventures of the Banebreakers from eyewitness accounts - the first book of its kind.

Her notable works include:

*"An Analysis of Treacher's Gold: Can Money Be Evil?"* (Mendax, et al. 836)

*"The Phylogeny of Drow as a Non-Elven Genus: Convergent vs Divergent Evolution"* (Mendax, et al. 841)

*"Geomagical Implications of Mixed-Discipline Jurisprudence: Do Magic and Legislature Mix?"* (Mendax, 842)

*"The Slow Sprint to Nationalism: A Study of Despots in the Age of Oris Ki'dyr-Southmarch"* (Mendax, 844)

*"The Tale in the Telling: How Oral Histories Shape Our Myths"* (Mendax, 846)

*"The Legend of Banesbreak"* (Mendax, 849)

*"Creative Property Law, and the Corruption of the High Court"* (Mendax, 850)

*"A Study in Time: Geotemporal Displacement by Manipulation of Negative Evocation Potentials"* (Mendax, Belbulb, 856)

*"Inking Coasts: The Life and Legacy of Vi'terin Tymor"* (Mendax, Vlakas 859)

*"Come Sail Away, or My New Life Afloat"* (Mendax, 861)

*"The Origins Series: Mlat-Arekaj (The Bog Barrens)"* (Mendax, 863)

*"Another Tale in the Telling: Lizardfolk Memory and the Favor Economy"* (Mendax, 866)

*"Little Voices: The Darisian Rebellion"* (Mendax, Orenner, Živian, 868)

*"The First Moon: A Biography of the Crescent Mother"* (Mendax, Scratching of Reed, 883)

*"Little Voices: The War of Three Rivers"* (Mendax, Unnekausi onv Kanngasuik, Lyrg of the Chaln Vyrq, 887)

*"The Origins Series: The Republic of Travers Bound"* (Mendax, Kezzisk, Felix, 892)

*"The Origins Series: Qes Ares"* (Mendax, Virvyre 899)

*"Commentaries on Farfoot & Oweni"* (Mendax, 901)

*"Little Voices: The Sundering & Overnight Massacre"* (Mendax, 902)

*"Analysis of a Modern Myth: The Faefall"* (Mendax, 913)

*"The Origins Series: The Heartlands"* (Mendax, Levo, 929)

*"The Missing Vision: Fall of the Kossirik Diviners"* (Mendax, 931)

*"The Origins Series: Verdain"* (Mendax, Cleavenshale, 952)

*"They Called Me Small: Trials and Histories of the Gnomes"* (Mendax, 959)

*"Sweet Scourge: The Truth About Bloomwater"* (Mendax, Pulright, 970)

*"Red Sands: The Assassination of the Crescent Mother"* (Mendax, Rooted in Sand, 992)

*"The Origins Series: Sun Crest"* (Mendax, Erlehek, 1,023)

*"Moss & Wood & Porcelain & Glass & Steel & More, the 'Stuff' of Cultures"* (Mendax, Vranc, 1,066)

*"The Origins Series: The Peninsula"* (Mendax, 1,112)

*"Not the Xaryne Plague: The Truth About the Palirroian Sickness"* (Mendax, 1,198)

*"The Fiction of Fact, an Autobiography"* (Mendax, 1,211)

*"The Leanest Days of the Family Famine"* (Mendax, 1,216)

*"Lucidity, Chaos, Lumesence & Hum: How We Quantify Magic"* (Mendax, Belbulb, Kaggai env Pumangansk, Shine of White, 1,238)

*"The Invisible Bubble: The Crest Bank Scandal"* (Mendax, 1,262)