I am writing a set of magic skillbooks for general use in TR, as we lack variety in that department. This is the Illusion skillbook, called "The Lantern Thief". It is about a cryptid believed to reside in the Telvannis district who steals lanterns (and probably murders people along the way). It suggests Archmagister Dral, if we end up running with the whole daedric insectoid abomination thing, and the idea came from Feivelyn's art for Dral, which depicted him as being obsessed with lamps and lanterns (bug as he is).
A proposal for an Orcish account of the Battle of Red Mountain. The presence of an Orcish account of the Battle within TR will further confuse the battle and possibly provide a new, interesting insight on the event to players. An Orcish account in particular will expand upon the mentions in "Five Songs of King Wulfharth" and "The War of the First Council" of Orcish belligerents more weight, expanding and elaborating on existing lore.
As Morrowind has daedric letters everywhere, and TR is adding more of that in the form of grafitti which doesn't have subtitles. It might be a good idea to have a book players can find in the world to keep in their back pocket when exploring and to refer to when trying to understand what something says in Daedric. This would be more immersive rather than googling translations, someone can translate in game themselves. Skill Book: Conjuraion: Value 150.
First draft of a rare book defending its author theory. A minor (and somewhat laughtable) one. Can be found in south Morrowind, Imperial settlements in Argonia, Nibenay and coastal Cyrodiil. I can find a more serious author name (and a better title), if needed.
I've noticed a severe lack of "generic" books for padding out offices and business during some recent claims and reviews, however lately I went back over mainland and noticed a lot of claim-unique books which filled that purpose and also looked over the Indoril Generic documents. As such I've gone over both lists and some other current generic books and edited them where necessary for versions that can be used all over and ideally replace those per-claim books at some point.
The text below is an MK text homaging (rewriting almost) a short piece by Jorge Luis Borges (Argumentum Ornitologicum). It might be cool to include as a scroll text (Temple-related maybe), perhaps in one of those forbidden libraries.
This is intended as an expansion to Ordolane's Bestiary. Currently, the bestiary contains volumes 9, 11, and 17. While I don't intend to fill in the entirety of the remaining volumes (1-8, 10, and 12-16 if we're assuming 17 was the final volume), I do intend to write a good 2 or 3, maybe 4 other volumes. This page will contain each volume, posted as I finish writing them. Some general quirks I noticed in the other volumes I'm carrying over:
A work on the styling of facial hair for Nirn's many peoples.
I always thought it odd that there was essentially no lore regarding the appearances of the various races, specifically regarding their facial hair, despite all of them seeming to be capable of growing it, so this ought to serve to fix that issue while giving a bit more flavor to different cultures.
