We need a books & stories list

[Joël of the FoS]

Great job, Cyclohexane, et al.. But your permanent link isn't so permanent, since the boards get purged on a semi-regular basis. I think the list should go somewhere else. FoS members? got a spot for it?

Sure! When the list is final, sent a file my way

If you want to merge 2e in it as well, or John's list, it would be cool, but make sure to mark what is from 3e mentions clearly.

(it occurs to me that this really ought to go in the catalog. any chance of getting it back open for editting so industrious folk like Cyclohexane can put stuff in? as mentioned before, I'm willing and most likely able to set up the dbman software...)

I wish we had the time to do all the projects we wanted to do ... This is one of the options we are looking at, but I have to admit this matter isn't the priority for the moment

Joël

[Lord Cyclohexane]

Sure! When the list is final, sent a file my way

The list is finished, except for perhaps one question:

Is it "Sedgwick" or "Sedgewick" for Alanik Ray's companion Arthur? I checked a number of resources, and it's basically exactly 50/50 depending on the book. I stuck with "Sedgwick" as that's how it's spelled in both RCS and RPHB (so if it was a typo in RCS, I expected it would have been corrected in RPHB), but this is still a bit of a matter of contention...

And from the "Borca's Dread Possibilities" thread, I did add in the three plays listed by Mangrum that were cut from the final product. I should maybe recheck the "Author's Notes" sections again to see if there are other book titles in other authors' notes...

[Lord Cyclohexane]

Oh, crud, thinking about it, I'm not finished with this list! I totally forgot about Van Richten's Guide to the Mists, so that's not on there at all. Please give me a little while to get that added, and I'll have an updated list after that.

Note: I looked through all of the other Author's Notes sections, no books mentioned in any of them.

[Lord Cyclohexane]

Van Richten's Guide to the Mists

--- Nathan the Atheist. The Case for Atheists in the Misty Land - p16
--- Journey of Phillipe the Shining - p19
--- Litany of the Ellefolk - p25
--- von Manheim, Dr. Viktor. Manifestations of Mental Dementia, Their Causes and Treatment - p77

[Lord Cyclohexane]

Permanent link
Here's the full books list, containing all of the books mentioned in 3.0/3.5 Ed, including Van Richten's Guide to the Mists:


--- Agrippa, Professor. Scrying and the Nature of Visions - (VRA p46)
--- Allandar. Allandar's Travelogue - "Gazetteer for supernatural events" (Gaz4 p88)
--- Ansgar. Den Bjaergekesjer - Nova Vaasan epic poem (Gaz5 p28)
--- Ansgar. Fare imod de Aften - Nova Vaasan epic poem (Gaz5 p28)
--- Ansgar. Haldor og Gudrun - Nova Vaasan epic poem, greatest of Vaasi literature (Gaz5 p28)
--- Ayre. Ancient Tales of the Vistani* - (VRA p54)
--- Barclay. Sight Unseen: The Theory of Ethereal Resonance - (VRA p45)
--- Galbraith, Madeline. Dust of Empires - History book on dead cultures (Gaz1 p45)
--- Gleam, Hans and Jakob. Tome of Terror - Illustrated fairy tales from the Core (DT&DL p122)
--- Goucus, Erryl. The Third Horseman - Darkonian book on military history (Gaz2 p20)
--- Harriet, M. Claude. The Scrawls - Story, may also be name of book (VRGttWD p48)
--- Milhavet, Inard. Struggle and Victory in the Animal Kingdom - Naturalist text (Gaz3 p86)
--- de Penible, Francois. The Forgotten Sensations - Dementlieuse book (Gaz3 p23)
--- Raluca, Petre. The Exile and the Return - Barovian history, Terg invasion (Gaz1 p17; Gaz4 p15)
--- Rivtoff, Sir Armand "Ironhand". The Beast of Ehrendton - Novel on demonic cult (Gaz5 p42)
--- Sedgwick, Arthur. The Life of Alanik Ray - Book of short stories (RCS p63/76; Gaz3 p128)
--- Sedgwick, Arthur. The Casebook of Alanik Ray - Book of short stories (Gaz3 p128; VRGttWD p50)
--- Tellurian, Archmage Jacktin. Transpossession: A Guide to Phenomena - (VRA p46)
--- von Manheim, Dr. Viktor. Manifestations of Mental Dementia, Their Causes and Treatment - (VRGttM p77)
--- von Sarr, Cletus. The Hammer of Light - Guide to fighting undead (VRGttWD p79)
--- von Zarovich, Strahd. Tome of Strahd - Propaganda autobiography (RCS p4/5,12/14,p77/90; LotB p128; SotDR p10)
--- Wyan of Viktal. Malleus Umbricum - "Hammer of Shades", text on fey creatures (VRGttSF p6)
--- Zeitsgraeng. The Silberkudexa - Historical book on Falkovnia's Silver Falcon Kingdom (Gaz2 p92)

--- Bestiary of Artak - Includes info on hungry dead (VRGttWD p40)
--- Catalogue of the World Entire** - The Core as of 711BC (Gaz4 p69)
--- Journey of Phillipe the Shining - (VRGttM p19)
--- Litany of the Ellefolk - (VRGttM p25)
--- Madrigorian, The - Writings on morality of evil (Gaz3 p21, et al)
--- Marcusen Manuscript - Court record, describing Seelie and Unseelie courts (VRGttSF p71)
--- Raiment of Clarity by the Iron Crown - Cursed necromantic text (VRGttWD p86; VRGttSF p7)
--- Romance from Beyond the Grave: A Love Beyond Death - trash novel (VRGttWD p80)
--- Romance from Beyond the Grave: The Dead Travel Fast - trash novel (Gaz3 p19)
--- Sources de Puissance - Arcane text (Gaz3 p21)
--- Tainted Writings of Blackcomb, The - Arcane text (Gaz3 p21)
--- Van Richten's Guide to the Ancient Dead - re: research on the Deathstone (LotB p20)
--- Van Richten's Guide to the Created - Moral concerns on having written it (VRA p61)
--- Van Richten's Guide to the Lich - (VRA p6)
--- Van Richten's Guide to Vampires - Printed 735BC (RCS p18/20)
--- Van Richten's Guide to the Vistani - Printed 742BC (RCS p18/20; VRA p6)
--- Waning of Leybria and Others, The - Fall of the Silver Falcon Kingdom (Gaz2 p92)


List of religious texts:
--- Nathan the Atheist. The Case for Atheists in the Misty Land - (VRGttM p16)
--- Book of Ezra, First - Revelation of Ezra to Yakov Dilisnya, 666BC (RCS p17/19; Gaz4 p16)
--- Book of Ezra, Second - Revelation of Ezra to Felix Wachter, 699BC (RCS p17/19; HoL p52)
--- Book of Ezra, Third - Revelation of Ezra to Joan Secousse, 709BC (RCS p17/19; Gaz3 p21; VRA p49)
--- Book of Ezra, Fourth - Revelation of Ezra to Teodorus Raines, 751BC (RCS p18/20; Gaz2 p30)
--- Doctrinae - Holy text of the Faith of the Overseer (Gaz2 p32)
--- The Tales of Ages*** - Holy text and history of the Halan faith (RCS p52/66; Gaz4 p104)
--- The Truth of Iron - First holy text of the Church of the Lawgiver (Gaz5 p125,126)
--- The Fetters of Bronze - Second holy text of the Church of the Lawgiver (Gaz5 p125,126)
--- The Black Trials - Third holy text of the Church of the Lawgiver (Gaz5 p125,126)
--- Crimson Faith - Fourth holy text of the Church of the Lawgiver (Gaz5 p126)
--- The Book of Stone - Fifth holy text of the Church of the Lawgiver (Gaz5 p126)
--- Vessels of Mercy, The - Holy text of the Echansons/Cupbearers heresy (Gaz3 p93)


List of plays, ballads, songs:
--- Berdarik. The Soulless Crown - Kartakan epic tragedy (Gaz1 p95)
--- Vercezzo, Cezar. The Blind Gypsy - Borcan play (Gaz4 WE)
--- Vercezzo, Cezar. Lotharia - Borcan play (Gaz4 WE)
--- Vercezzo, Cezar. The Silent Child - Borcan play (Gaz4 WE)
--- Blood of Mazonn - Barovian epic ballad (Gaz1 p16)
--- Courage - Dementlieuse play about workhouses (Gaz3 p24)
--- Flight from the Balinoks - Barovian epic ballad (Gaz1 p27)
--- La Mort de Mon Coeur ("The Death of My Heart") - Dementlieuse opera (Gaz3 p24)
--- Pavel, Heir to the Sun - Ancient Barovian saga (VRGttWD p44)
--- "My Bones Will Rest for Me" - Borcan folksong (Gaz4 p20)


Additional stuff:
--- Newsbill - Daily Paridon newspaper (RCS p165/184)
--- Fleming, Sir Archer - Mordentish poet (Gaz5 p10)
--- Smitskopf, Martyn - Author of fiction novels about diabolism (Gaz2 p83)


* Ancient Tales of the Vistani - VRA lists the author as being unknown. However, in the source novel "Castle of the Undead" (a Ravenloft "Choose Your Own Adventure" book from which the prophecy quoted in VRA comes from, along with the idea of the Bloodknife and the vampire Velkaarn) , the ghostly librarian Ayre claims to have penned a book called Legends of the Vistani, as reported by The Giamarga in the thread The Bloodknife. The book names seem too similar, so it seems fair to assume the two books are one-and-the-same and thus attribute the book to Ayre.

** Catalogue of the World Entire - As per GazIV, this was "commissioned by Camille Boritsi shortly before her death." As she died in 711 BC, several familiar Core domains had not yet been revealed by the Mists by this point. These are: Hazlan (714 BC), Dorvinia (715 BC), Sithicus (720 BC) and Verbrek (730 BC). It would also include several non-familiar Core domains, like Bluetspur, the Nightmare Lands, G'Henna and Markovia, all of which left in the Great Upheaval. See Jester's pre-Great Upheaval map

*** RCS/RPHB has title as Tales of the Ages whereas Gaz4 has it as The Tales of Ages. I thought the latter sounded better and have stuck with that.

[Rotipher of the FoS]

Hate to break this to you, guys, but we may have overlooked the most thoroughly-documented of all publications within the game-setting: the books we've all been reading this stuff out of! No book-list should omit the in-character versions of the volumes that our IRL game-products are ostensibly based upon, so we really ought to list them for references' sake.

-- Van Richten's Guide to XXX (original editions, Vampires through Vistani)
-- Van Richten's Monster Hunter's Compendium, Vol. I-III (recompiled editions published by the twins)
-- Van Richten's Arsenal, Vol. I (first original publication by twins)
-- Van Richten's Guide to XXX (continuation of series by twins, Walking Dead through Mists)
-- The Doomsday Gazetteers, Vol. I-V (privately compiled by S)

In-game production dates for all of these volumes would be extremely useful for those who don't own them all or care to run through the math in their heads.

Oh, and if unpublished works are included (which should certainly be the case if we want the Tome of Strahd and the Gazzes on the roster), then we probably shouldn't leave out:

Weathermay-Foxgroves' Inclusive Guide to the Curious Properties of the Mists (twins' first abortive effort at authorship, 749)

Just a quibble. Sorry, Lord Cyc!

[Rotipher of the FoS]

--- Pavel, Heir to the Sun - Ancient Barovian saga (VRGttWD p44)

For another (OOC) reference, a partial recounting of this folktale can be found in VotM, should DMs care to read the real thing.

[Lord Cyclohexane]

Just a quibble. Sorry, Lord Cyc!

No worries there, Roti. But I apologize if I've misguided you as to the scope of this project. I hadn't meant to make an authoritative list of ALL books referenced throughout the Ravenloft products (mostly because I don't own all of them), but just an authoritative list of all books mentioned in the 3.0/3.5 products.

For instance, on my list above, you'll see Van Richten's Guides to the Ancient Dead, the Created, the Lich, Vampires, and the Vistani, all of which were referenced in 3.0/3.5 books. I didn't reference the Guide to Ghosts, Werebeasts, Witches, Fiends, etc as they weren't referenced in the 3.0/3.5 books anywhere. This is not to say that such books don't exist, but rather that it's outside of the scope of this project.

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That said, I am tempted to be more ambitious and try to go through the 2nd Ed products as well. John Mangrum created such a list back in the past (as seen earlier in this thread, as GonzoRon provided the list), so it can be done, so I am tempted to duplicate it with the additional references. As I said above, I don't own all of the Ravenloft books (I have almost all of the adventures, modules, etc but have basically none of the novels), but I could do a pretty fair job if we wanted to create a truly definitive list.

Do you think I should go for it?

[Rotipher of the FoS]

Hey, you're the only one who knows how much time (or stamina) you have to devote to this project! Sorry if it seemed like I was pressuring you to tackle more work than you needed to, Cyc; it's awesome (in both senses of the word) that you've done as much as you have, already.

While I've got things of my own to work on -- Yes, Llana, I promise I'll have that Paridon Art submission for you soon! -- I'd be happy to help you expand the list to include 2E stuff, if you do care to do that. I'm an "old fogey" Ravenlofter from the beginning, so I can check my shelves for any old products (I've got all the novels BTW) that you don't have on hand, to look for more citations. But that's only if you're sure you really do want to continue this; if the 3E stuff is enough for you, that's plenty to keep us reference-hunting DMs happy for a looooong time.

[Lord Cyclohexane]

Argh, I guess I just couldn't resist.
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I6 - Ravenloft
- Embalming, The Lost Art - In Strahd's lounge (p21)
- Life Among the Undead: Learning to Cope - In Strahd's lounge (p21)
- Identifying Blood Types: A Beginners' Handbook - In Strahd's lounge (p21)
- Masonry and Woodworking - In Strahd's lounge (p21)
- Tome of Strahd - Original reference to it (p31)

I10 - The House on Gryphon Hill
- The Inner Soul - One of the books owned by The Alchemist (p29)
- The Nature of the Soul: Portion or Totality of the Man? - (p34)

Feast of Goblyns
- Life or Death? A History of the Crown of Souls - (p108 of WotC PDF)

Darklords
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Night of the Walking Dead
- The Cult of the Swamp God - (p19)

[Lord Cyclohexane]

Islands of Terror
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Van Richten's Guide to Vampires
- The Mind of the Vampire - Treatise on vampire psychology (p78)

Van Richten's Guide to Ghosts
- Sedgwick, Arthur. The Life of Alanik Ray - (p31)

Van Richten's Guide to the Lich
- THe Haedritic Manuscripts - by the Dweller in the Jacinth Chamber (p10)
- Bilerius. The Gnomics of Bilerius - Bestiary of supernatural beings (p18)
- Van Richten, Rudolph. Guide to Vampires - (p18)
- Jovanovitch, Moritavius. Journal of Moritavius Jovanovitch - Arcane text (p23)
- Diverse Meditations Upon the Higher Magicks - Arcane text (p23)
- The Magic Man - A child's play poem about monsters (p48)


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Edit: VRGttL has a listing for "Divers [sic] Meditations Upon the Higher Magicks." I originally took the "[sic]" to indicate a dropped apostrophe, meaning it should begin as "Diver's" or "Divers's" but have later changed my mind, taking the "[sic]" to mean that "Divers" should be "Diverse." This makes much more sense anyway.

[Lord Cyclohexane]

Hey, you're the only one who knows how much time (or stamina) you have to devote to this project! Sorry if it seemed like I was pressuring you to tackle more work than you needed to, Cyc; it's awesome (in both senses of the word) that you've done as much as you have, already.

Thank you for your kind words. And no, I don't feel any particular pressure to expand my original aim, though I am tempted to expand and complete it anyway. I've wanted a list like this for a long while and I figured, might as well step up rather than expecting others to do this for me. And I had just expected others to do it, which was silly when I thought about it. But I feel no need to do this, other than it pleases me to do it.

While I've got things of my own to work on -- Yes, Llana, I promise I'll have that Paridon Art submission for you soon! -- I'd be happy to help you expand the list to include 2E stuff, if you do care to do that. I'm an "old fogey" Ravenlofter from the beginning, so I can check my shelves for any old products (I've got all the novels BTW) that you don't have on hand, to look for more citations. But that's only if you're sure you really do want to continue this; if the 3E stuff is enough for you, that's plenty to keep us reference-hunting DMs happy for a looooong time.

I might as well continue, as it'll be useful to me later on and can help out many others as well. But yeah, if you'd like to help out, please do! I don't have a list of what I'm missing and so can't suggest anything in particular for you to cover, but if you'd like to cover a novel or two, I'd be appreciative. I only have three novels (Vampire of the Mists, Knight of the Black Rose, and I, Strahd), so if you want to cover any of the others, feel free. And if it turns out that you don't have the time or if you later decide that you'd rather not, please don't take my comments as binding you to any course of action. And regardless, thank you for the offer.

[Lord Cyclohexane]

Ship of Horror
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Book of Crypts
- Great Composers - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Form and Line in Music - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Physical Properties of Sound Production - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Musical Instrument Construction - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Modes in Music - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Poetry of the Masters - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Sonnets - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Assonance and Alliteration in Poetry - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Advances in Anatomy - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Vertebrate Biology - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Sketching Nudes - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Portfolio of Birds - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Principles of Perspective - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Art of Architecture - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Treatise on Free Government - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p26)
- Decline of Feudal Holdings - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p27)
- Philosophy of Death - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p27)
- Study in Darkness - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p27)
- Diary of Baron Lyron Evensong - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p27)
- Poems of Baron Evensong - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p27)
- Imbuing Instruments With Magic - Part of Baron Evensong's library (p28)


Note: I noticed that my PDF copy of Book of Crypts ends at page 64, with pages 65 on being from Darklords. If anyone could check pages 65-96 to see if there are any book listings, I'd be appreciative. Otherwise, this note will remind me to check my print copy when I next have the opportunity.

[Joël of the FoS]

Book of Crypts (suite)

- Alteration - spellbook part of Nightblood's collection (p 79)
- Evocation - spellbook part of Nightblood's collection (p 79)
- Corpus Libram - book on dissections, part of Nightblood's collection (p 79)
- Gainful Decay - book on study and magical uses of rotting matters, part of Nightblood's collection (p 79)
- History of Death in Thay - book on disasters and wars in the land of Thay, part of Nightblood's collection (p 79)
- Machination of Mortality - book on torture, part of Nightblood's collection (p 79)
- the NecroCompanion - almanac with many articles, from moon and star charts predicting important events in Thay to sarcophagus jokes, part of Nightblood's collection (p 79)
- Nightblood - an Auto Necrography - book part of Nightblood's collection (p 80)
- Catalogue of Undead - book part of Nightblood's collection (p 80)
- Death Magicks - guidebook on how to create magical objects that requires a living component, part of Nightblood's collection (p 80)
- Necromancy - spellbook part of Nightblood's collection (p 80)

Joël

[Lord Cyclohexane]

Sweet, thank you very much for the help, Joël!


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Touch of Death
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