Malleus Umbricum

The Hammer of Shades was written by Wyan of Viktal as a guide to fighting the fey. It is not an especially accurate work, at times casting a net that threatens to encompass spellcasters of all sorts with the exception of clerics of Belenus. The Syndicate of Enlightened Citizens has funded the work's translation into every language of consequence in the Core. These translations are even more inaccurate than the original. In Hazlan copies are confiscated and burned by order of Hazlik. Indeed their publisher was burnt alive atop a pile of them at a ceremony assisted by the Red Wizard who made a point of not only lighting the fire but also weaving magic into the flames to make them burn with hideous slowness.