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Book of Keeping

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#1
ephealy
Sep 01, 2006 13:54:35 I'm looking for source material on the Book of Keeping. I know it's a book on summoning yugoloths, and I found some minor info in the Xideous entry in Uncaged. That's all I've got. Any other references to read?
#2
ripvanwormer
Sep 01, 2006 19:05:59 Download the Roots of Evil adventure from the previous editions downloads page; much is made of the Book of Keeping belonging to the arcanaloth Inajira.

However, it should be said that the presentation of the Book of Keeping in that adventure (where it is the place an arcanaloth records all his contracts) isn't really true to how they're presented in Planescape (primarily in the [i]Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix One), where they're instead a yugoloth's bane, a book containing the secrets of summoning and binding them against their will. It's not completely unreasonable that an arcanaloth could get one and use it for another purpose, though - this would make it even worse for Inajira when Strahd stole his, as he was stealing not only a record of yugoloth contracts but gaining the secret of putting a substantial number of named yugoloths under his power.

Probably the original Books of Keeping were created by enemies of the yugoloths. As you know, a gehreleth (the shator Xideous) is in the process of writing one now. If you believe Roots of Evil, most of them are actual artifacts, which suggests they're beyond the power of mortals to create, and extremely difficult to destroy. Perhaps they were originally made by guardinals or other celestial beings.

Most will have long lists of yugoloth truenames (many of them inaccurate by now), along with summoning spells and secrets of yugoloth lore. Those that have been carried around by arcanaloths and written in for a long time (and that does make some sense; why would they trust them out of their sight?) may have additional information that 'loths don't want to see widely distributed, such as exactly who they've cheated in the Blood War.
#3
bob_the_efreet
Sep 02, 2006 23:28:29
Most will have long lists of yugoloth truenames (many of them inaccurate by now)

Because said 'loths are dead, I assume? Or does an exemplar's truename change when it ascends to a new caste?
#4
ripvanwormer
Sep 02, 2006 23:30:11
Because said 'loths are dead, I assume? Or does an exemplar's truename change when it ascends to a new caste?

All of the above.

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#1 ephealy Sep 01, 2006 13:54:35	I'm looking for source material on the Book of Keeping. I know it's a book on summoning yugoloths, and I found some minor info in the Xideous entry in Uncaged. That's all I've got. Any other references to read?
#2 ripvanwormer Sep 01, 2006 19:05:59	Download the Roots of Evil adventure from the previous editions downloads page; much is made of the Book of Keeping belonging to the arcanaloth Inajira. However, it should be said that the presentation of the Book of Keeping in that adventure (where it is the place an arcanaloth records all his contracts) isn't really true to how they're presented in Planescape (primarily in the [i]Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix One), where they're instead a yugoloth's bane, a book containing the secrets of summoning and binding them against their will. It's not completely unreasonable that an arcanaloth could get one and use it for another purpose, though - this would make it even worse for Inajira when Strahd stole his, as he was stealing not only a record of yugoloth contracts but gaining the secret of putting a substantial number of named yugoloths under his power. Probably the original Books of Keeping were created by enemies of the yugoloths. As you know, a gehreleth (the shator Xideous) is in the process of writing one now. If you believe Roots of Evil, most of them are actual artifacts, which suggests they're beyond the power of mortals to create, and extremely difficult to destroy. Perhaps they were originally made by guardinals or other celestial beings. Most will have long lists of yugoloth truenames (many of them inaccurate by now), along with summoning spells and secrets of yugoloth lore. Those that have been carried around by arcanaloths and written in for a long time (and that does make some sense; why would they trust them out of their sight?) may have additional information that 'loths don't want to see widely distributed, such as exactly who they've cheated in the Blood War.
#3 bob_the_efreet Sep 02, 2006 23:28:29	Most will have long lists of yugoloth truenames (many of them inaccurate by now) Because said 'loths are dead, I assume? Or does an exemplar's truename change when it ascends to a new caste?
#4 ripvanwormer Sep 02, 2006 23:30:11	Because said 'loths are dead, I assume? Or does an exemplar's truename change when it ascends to a new caste? All of the above.