List of Books

A Circle of Cold Iron

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":11">She went to the table to drop off the books: Fae Courts Across History, A Circle of Cold Iron, and Dark Somnambulism. While there, she investigated what Lucy was collecting.

A minute later, she found some books with menacing looking eyes on the cover and directed Lucy to them, to better sort through it.  Apotropaic Protections.

She found more for the Kennet Others.  Vessels, The Rusty Nail, Anima and Animus, Other Soldiers. To throw any observers off the trail, Avery gathered some more books on different kinds of Other: Dying Giants, Divine Hands: Servants and Messengers, Hardest Bargains: Envoys, and At the Threshold of Death.  They covered giants, divine servants and messengers, envoy incarnates, and the undead, respectively. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref> Covers Fae and the binding thereof, going in depth on what works best per court.<ref>According to ‘A Circle of Cold Iron’, one good thing about beating a Faerie is that if you can get the victory, it tends to be decisive; they fold. - BINDING AND COUNTERMEASURES</ref>

Alchemy Basics 1: Elemental Alchemy

Book on Alchemy on the Atheneum Arrangement, contains notes from an apprentice Alchemist, further study requires permission from Ray Sunshine or a sworn statement that she'd completed basic studies in alchemy by an alchemist.<ref>Alchemy Basics 1: Elemental Alchemy.  Texts converted from study notes for an apprentice alchemist.  Further studies required permissions she hadn’t been given, which needed the A-okay from Raymond, or a signed and sworn declaration that she had completed basic studies in Alchemy with an Alchemist, and received their firm and stated approval.- Excerpt from Dash to Peices 11.9</ref>

Anima and Animus

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library covering Animus and Anima.<ref name=":11" />

Astral Bodies

A series of books, in at least three volumes, that presumably covers Angels.<ref name="FA">Johannes seems to bear harsh wounds, no doubt tying back to his ambitious claim, with no use of one eye, one hand and one leg, though the tissues appear undamaged.  He bears a set of antique pipes as his implement, and has a Gatekeeper of the Seventh Ring (ref Astral Bodies: vol 3, and Prime Movers) as his familiar, named Faysal Anwar, which takes the form of a rather large Afghan Hound. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.6</ref>

At the Threshold of Death

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library covering Undead.<ref name=":11" /> Contains lots of woodcuts of undead. Has a chapter titled "Summoning and Binding". Others described include Vampires, Ghouls, Banes, Revenants, Widows, Dirge-things and Dirge-beasts.<ref>Avery opened the book on undead.  She found the table of contents, sandwiched between some woodcut prints of skeletons and echoes.  Lucy joined her, standing beside her, and ran a finger down the list.

“Summoning and Binding.”
[...]
Avery opened the text, and it was a tough read.  It was better written than the last one had been, the art was higher quality, with illustrations for everything.  In one woodcut, a pair of vampires were weedy, emaciated things with bat features and wings and other stuff all mixed in, huddled in a nook while an onlooker held a lantern, shining it into the alcove.

There were ghouls, far more common, who could thrive because unlike Vampires, they could eat the dead, who were plentiful and not innocent.

There were Banes, Revenants, Widows, Dirge-things, Dirge-beasts and… - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

Apotropaic Protections

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library on protecting against the Evil Eye.<ref name=":12">Avery looked over the books, to verify what she’d suspected once she’d seen Lucy’s initial picks.

Deft Deflection, Apotropaic Protections, A Practitioner Alone, Walls of Chalk, Blinded Eye, Curse Lifted…

Avery paged through the initial stuff there.  Counter-practice, countering the evil eye, dealing with large numbers and forces, warding diagrams, counter-augury, counter-curses.

She had to walk around the table to Lucy’s other pile.

Famulus: The Familiar Bond, Implementum: The Practitioner’s Tool, Demesnes: A Place of One’s Own.- Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

A Practitioner Alone

A book on "dealing with large numbers and forces" found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":12" />

Black Lamb's Blood

Main Article: Black Lamb's Blood

A book purporting to be the autobiography of a Diabolist, arguing for greater acceptance of diabolists and for modifying the Awakening ritual and Seal of Solomon to regulate their behaviour.

Blessed Wrongs

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0">I looked at the books, noting the differences from the ones in the rest of the house.  They were better taken care of, for one thing, and they tended to be narrow.

Cassandra’s Gaze.

Deleterious Craftings

Draoidh.  The book had a little ivory mask inset in the spine, with round staring eyes and a very curly beard.

Glamour.

Poppets.

Shamanism: ‘Animus’, volumes one through six, and Shamanism: ‘Umbra’, volumes seven through ten.

Vestige: Glimmers and Gasps.

Wū zhěn: Eastern Vodun Practices.

I finished reading spines along the one wall.  I traced spines with my fingertips as I passed on to the next wall.

Blessed Wrongs.

Dryads, Varieties.

Jokes from the Faerie Folk.

Lilith’s Children.

Maddening Things.

Observations on Bacchae interacting in Modern Society.

On Others. Editions from 1964 through 2012 were lined up on the shelf.  Thicker texts.

Pitiable: Transcriptions from informal dialogues with Vampir. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.3</ref>

Blinded Eye

A book on countering Augury found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":12" />

Cassandra’s Gaze

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" />

Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1">

The Worst of the Others.

Devils and Details.

Dark Contracts

Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings.

Hellfire: Bindings

Infernal Wrath

Pacts and Prices

I tried to swallow, but my mouth was too dry.  I didn’t know much, but I knew this was a bad idea of the worst kind.

These were the books that held a place of prominence on grandmother’s bookshelf.  These were the tools she expected us to employ.

No small wonder she’d made the enemies she had.

These books?  They each had the same set of initials on the spine.  R.D.T.

She’d written them. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.3</ref> Chapter 4 contains precautions for dealing with abstract entities such as Barbatorem.<ref name=":5">Those looking to interact with Barbatorem at any length should see about precautions against abstract entities in Classifying Others: Fiends and Darker Beings, chapter four, and the texts on means of attack and defense against Others, in Infernal Wrath, chapter two. - Excerpt from Dark Names, quoted in Bonds 1.7</ref> Chapter 7 describes and gives examples of the Choir of Darkness, with a particular focus on the absolute nature of their destruction. The book is particularly focused on distinguishing true Demons from those Others which are merely awful, although it describes a great deal about Diabolism generally. There are 9 chapters in total.<ref>Though it’s scarcely more than speculative fiction, it illustrates the nature of the First Choir for the seventh of our nine chapters here. They devour.  They take. [...] The focus of this text remains the identification of that fine line that separates demons from those Others which are foul but not true fiends. - excerpt from Interlude 7</ref>

Curse Lifted

A book on counter-curses found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":12" />

Dark Contracts

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1" /> Contains templates and recommendations for preparing contracts with demons.<ref name=":6">I’ve left you something, or perhaps it is more correct to say I’ve left you someone.  I refer to him as Barbatorem,

making a small joke, as I tend to do, but he is an older one, bearing some status and a few stories from years past, with no name of any meaning that has survived the passage of time.  You should be able to find those stories and notes on that status in Dark Names, p. 38.
[...]
For him, the conversation is ongoing, and you’ll need to see the notes on his page in Dark Names so you can continue from where I, and each member of our line, left off.  Failure to do so may confuse or irritate him.
[...]
If you intend to deal with him, use one of the templates outlined in Dark Contracts, which I left to the right of the desk.  Page 15, 17, 29 and 77 are good places to look, if you find yourself in a hurry.  Do not improvise, for words must be chosen with utmost care.  The final third of the book has recommended terminology with examples, which you can insert into the templates as needed. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.6</ref>

Dark Names

A book on Diabolism by Rose Sr, found in the Hillsglade House library. Contains (among other things) notes on Barbatorem, including the ongoing conversation between him and the Thorburn Family, details on what it means for him to be so old that his original name (if any) is lost,<ref name=":6" /> and a description of how Rose bound him, all found on p38.<ref>Bonds 1.7</ref>

We see some of Barbatorem's entry in Bonds 1.7.

Dark Somnambulism

A book on various nightmare Others owned by the BHI. Contents include: Chapter five, summoning.  Chapter six, dangers.  Chapter seven, binding.<ref>“And for this one…” Lucy grabbed the Dark Somnambulism one.  “Nightmares… just the table of contents tells us there are a lot of types.”

“Yeah,” Avery said.  “And again, summoning and binding, except there’s a chapter for each.  Chapter five, summoning.  Chapter six, dangers.  Chapter seven, binding.  They split them up and stuck a big warning chapter in there, it looks like.” - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref> Others covered include nightmare-related Echoes, Bogeymen, Hags, Jinn, and Incarnations; as well as Succubi and Dark Riders.<ref>Avery kept reading the book on the Others that were related to bad dreams.  Nightmare seemed to be a really broad category that covered a lot of things.

Tadra Ikati, or Night Echoes. Echoes, often driven by the unresolved, could find connection to dreaming friends and family who shared some similar unanswered questions or needs. [...]

Night Slashers were Bogeymen who acted within dreams, gaining enough momentum and power to transition into reality.  Simple enough. [...] Dark Riders were Others, sometimes Fae, who found the displaced with a minimum of connections protecting them, like orphans and refugees, and ‘rode’ them while they were still asleep. [...] Night Hags were Others, sometimes Aware or Innocent, but most often Practitioners, who subsisted off of nightmares, prolonging their own life and well being.  Hags of other types subsisted on different things, but they tended to be Heartless to start and became Other. [...] Majnūn Jinn were one of a variety of Jinn, [...] an angry variety that stirred up nightmares and psychosis.  When they worked, they affected whole regions. [...] There were Nightmare Incarnates, and a variety of subtypes. [...] Incubi and Succubi, [...]  Once confused with demons, because they were so insidious. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

Deaths in the Eastern Realm of the White Tailed Deer

Found in the Hillsglade House library. Consists of a list of Practitioner deaths and their causes within an area up to 2011, dating back to the colonization of North America.<ref name=":8">“Title is Standards, subtitle is ‘A history of practices for dealings between the gifted’.”

“Which shelf?”

“Ummm… Bookshelf seven, shelf five.”

I looked at the sheet I had sitting beside me.  I’d drawn out two octagons, with numbers at each side, excepting the sides that opened out into the second and third floor hallways.  I identified bookshelf seven, looked, and was pretty sure I could see the book she’d mentioned.  I wrote it down.  “Standards.  Sounds like a thrilling read.”

“The second book, bookshelf six, bottom shelf, right at the bottom, we’ve got ‘Deaths in the Eastern Realm of the White Tailed Deer.‘ [...] It’s not about deer.  It’s about the general area.  A straight list of practitioner deaths, times of death, and causes of death since we settled in the new world.  It’s only as recent as twenty-eleven, but I think it covers a list of executions and reasons for execution.  You can skim it for the executions and see if there are any trends.” - Excerpt from Damages 2.3</ref> Extremely long and heavy, so heavy Rose Jr couldn't lift it.<ref name=":9">“Me?  You said ‘you can skim’.  You usually say we instead of you, unless we’re arguing.  You’re assuming I’m reading this list of deaths?”

“I’m going to get started on Standards, since you’re already looking through… what was it?”

I double checked the cover of the book that now lay across my lap.  “…Prominent Feuds.”

“Right.  You’re reading that.  I’ll start on Standards, you get started on the deer book when you’re done reading what you’re reading.”

“I’m already pretty fed up with all this.  How long is this death-ledger?”

“Long.  But like I said, you can skim down the one column.  Will you go over it?”

I craned my neck, but I couldn’t see the bottom shelf on the floor above us.  “Can you show me?”

There was a pause.  “I could.”

I turned to look at Rose in the mirror.  “Please?”

She sighed.  “It’s too heavy to lift.”

"You were trying to con me,” I said.  “Trying to get me to commit to reading over some ridiculously huge tome.”- Excerpt from Damages 2.3</ref>

Deft Deflections

A book on countering the Practice, found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":12" />

Deleterious Craftings

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Curses.

Deleterious Practices and Curses.

A book on curses on the Atheneum Arrangement.<ref name=":15" />

Demesnes

Main article: Demesnes

Subtitled A Place of One's Own.<ref name=":12" />A book with a green cloth cover covering the details of Demesnes. Of a set with Famulus and Implementum.<ref name=":2">Another series of books, in a stack in the corner, where the lawyers had left them.  Famulus, Implementum, Demesne.  Orange, purple and green cloth covers, respectively, they all matched otherwise, in size and the script on the spines.  I glanced each one over, then tossed them onto the desk, where they rewarded me with a series of satisfying impacts. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.3</ref><ref name=":3">

2. Study and enact the ritual noted in Famulus.  The familiar is your greatest ally, and will serve as a tool, a wellspring of power, an ambassador to dealing with more abstract things, and will be a lifelong companion.  Make this choice with the same respect you would with undertaking marriage, only know there is no form of divorce.  The Familiar is to be a part of you for life.  You gain their services, and they gain a chance to be mortal, even if it is a small mortalhood, in addition to whatever other terms you negotiate.  Do not allow your familiar to take the form of a rat or dog.

3.  Study and enact the ritual noted in Implementum.  Your choice of tool will shape how you interact with this world, your craft, and will be your badge in the eyes of many.  The book is dreary, page on page of examples, but study it thoroughly, for there are many meanings, and a poor choice of tool may well cripple you.

4.  Study and enact the ritual found in Demesnes. Baba Yaga had her hut, I have my room.  Unfortunately, the rest of the house has been claimed by our predecessors, and while it is a haven, you will need to find your own place to make your own, where the rules bend as you need them to, and where your power is greatest.  The three rituals noted here are fundamental in determining how you access, hoard and focus power.  Note, however, that your real power will be in how you act with others and Others. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.3</ref><ref name=":4">Interlude 2.x</ref><ref name=":12" /> Quoted at length in Interlude 2.x. Blake and Rose read some of this book in Bonds 1.6.

Devils and Details

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1" /> Also serves as a little nod to the reader; *Devils and Details* is the tagline of Pact.

Diabolatry

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior. Has a flexible black cover with gold lettering. Behind this book was a note placed there by Rose Sr for when her heirs became desperate enough to reach for diabolism, detailing Barbatorem and with the key to his room attached.<ref>Bonds 1.6</ref>

Divine Hands

Subtitled Servants and Messengers. A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library covering, as the title suggests, divine servants and messengers.<ref name=":11" />

Dramatis Personae

Dramatis Personae is the combination address book, dossier and journal that families use to keep track of people they know of in writing.<ref>“Include Essentials, your Dramatis Personae, other introductory stuff.  Let’s get Avery the basics while we’re at it.”

“We’d want to redact,” the Aunt said.  “Nothing major, but a good contact is valuable.”

“Mostly I want Dramatis Personae for the notes it’d have on groups like Wonderkand and the other Finders she might run into.”

“Okay.  Limited redactions where appropriate for business… emailing.”
[...]
“Dramatis Personae is different for every family, more like a notebook or contact list where you keep track of friends and enemies,” Zed told Avery.  “Just about every practitioner’s got one.” - Excerpt from Summer Break 13.9</ref>

The one used by the Thorburn Family is a small black book<ref name=":7">“What about the North End Sorcerer?”

“What about him?”

“I take it you didn’t read the little black book from cover to cover?  Look him up.”
[...]
I opened the tiny book.

Johannes Lillegard, believed to be an adopted name... - Excerpt from Bonds 1.6</ref> handwritten by Rose D. Thorburn, Sr listing and summarizes notable individuals within Jacob's Bell and the surrounding area,<ref name="b13dp">Mr. Beasley, as well as individuals you’ll find in Jacob’s Bell and the surrounding area, is described in a little black book I playfully dubbed Dramatis Personae, when I was younger. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.3</ref> it has tabs separating "Allies" (Containing only her lawyers' number) and "Enemies" (Everyone else in town.)<ref>I found Dramatis Personae.  I flipped through it.  There were tabs.  One for ‘allies’, which was virtually empty, with only the lawyer’s number.

Enemies…  they took up almost all of the remainder. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.3</ref>

We see Johannes' entry in Bonds 1.6.<ref name=":7" />

A similar book was kept by the shopkeeper in Mile End.

Rose D. Thorburn, Sr. dubbed her book playful when she was younger,<ref name="b13dp"/> her childhood having been in the 1930s, it seems to have caught on since as other families use the name as well, at least in Canada.

Dryads, Varieties

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" />

Draoidh

A book in the Hillsglade House library. It has a small, bearded ivory mask inset into the spine.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Druids.

Dying Giants

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library covering Giants.<ref name=":11" />

Essentials

Main article: Essentials

A book containing the very basics of the Practice, serving as a "beginner's guide" of sorts. Every Practitioner worth their salt has a copy.

Fae Courts Across History

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":11" /> Presumably covers the history of the Faerie Courts.

Famulus

Main article: Famulus

A book covering the details of Familiars and the relevant ritual.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />The book was first conceived among magic tutors in the late 18th century, and has been refined over subsequent editions for over two centuries.<ref name=":14">Famulus is a result of many years’ teaching in private circles.  As it became vogue to hire tutors around the year 1785, powerful members of the community gained a certain prominence, not-insignificant profits, and found themselves wrestling with a great deal of frustration.  This frustration stemmed from the fact that one tutor would teach one thing, which the next tutor would have to correct or account for.  They exchanged correspondence, to find out what had been taught and why, and opened discussions on how things might be done better.

[...]

Even after two hundred years of discussion and refining of this material, several ideologies and approaches stand out.

[...]

Casual practitioner-familiar relationships are dangerous to the point of irresponsibility, but have seen some growing popularity among young practitioners as of the writing of this (2018) edition. - excerpt from Famulus, quoted in Bonus Material: Famulus Text</ref>

Quoted at length in Interlude 2.x and Bonus Material: Famulus Text.

Forged Hearts

Has a small sculpture-like image of a woman pulling a key from her chest set into the spine.<ref>Forged Hearts, A book on the creation of enchanted objects, with a woman pulling a key out of her chest set into the spine like a shallow sculpture. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.5</ref> A book by an Item Crafter named Tess Hager on the subject of her craft. Lent to the Blue Heron Institute library by a L. Graubard. Quoted at length in Bonus Material: Bedtime Reading.

Fundamentals

Contains warnings on the dangers of overusing Second Sight<ref>Fundamentals had warned about using the sight too much, going too deep.  I was starting to understand how that worked.  When we crossed over, our sight had adjusted.  If I peered hard enough or long enough, I suspected, I might not be able to readjust my vision to view the normal world at all.  Go too deep, exploring permutations and distant perspectives of things, and perhaps you couldn’t resurface. I could see the problem with that.  Being in the real world, but only able to view the spirit world version of it?  It would be like going mad, except the monsters and things in the shadows could very well be real, and there could be no hope of maintaining normal relationships, when you saw normal people through the eyes of an Other. - Excerpt from Subordination 6.10</ref> and some basic elemental Runes.<ref>I recognized one of the symbols in the dead center, writ large, as an elemental ward, one of the more elementary ones we’d learned from Fundamentals. - Excerpt from Duress 12.5</ref>

It's possible that this is same book as Essentials, given the similar name & some overlap in the contents. If so, this could be either the author or the characters misremembering the name of the book.

Garbage-Man

A comic book Snowdrop enjoyed when lent to her by Nina in the Blue Heron Iinstitute library.<ref>“Don’t disturb Mr. Belanger’s class, and be silent if and when students come in to browse and study,” Nina told them. She placed a Garbage-Man comic in front of Snowdrop, then looked over the books. [...]

“Boo, instincts,” Snowdrop said, not looking up from her comic book. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

Glamour

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Glamour.

Hardest Bargains: Envoys

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library covering, as the name suggests, Envoys.<ref name=":11" />

Hellfire: Bindings

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1" />

Implementum

Main article: Implementum

Subtitled The Practitioner's Tool.<ref name=":12" />A book with a purple cloth cover covering the details of Implements and the relevant ritual. Of a set with Famulus and Demesne.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> Quoted at length in Interlude 2.x.

Infernal Wrath

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1" /> Chapter 2 contains notes on attacking and defending against Others.<ref name=":5" />

Inner Void Beneath

A book written by Ann Wint's father. Ann herself doesn't think highly of it.<ref>“Inner Void Beneath?  It was intense.”

“It was trash,” Ann said.  “My father is not a good writer.  He wrote it because he thought he should, not because he could.”

“There was interesting stuff in there,” Verona said.- Excerpt from Playing a Part 15.4</ref>

Jokes from the Faerie Folk

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Fae.

Kobold Koba’los

Essential introduction to all Goblin practices<ref>Bonus Material: Demesnes Text</ref>

Lilith’s Children

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" />

Lost and Bound: Bogeymen

A book in the Hillsglade House library. A catalogue of Bogeymen for sending after your enemies, by the same author as Plumbing Darkest Depths. Contains some basics of binding them in case you screw up, but not a full guide; the assumption is that you will buy the author's other work if you care about anything more than a quick source of minions.<ref>The second book was a catalogue of bogeymen.  Rose’s research for summoning the ‘help’.  A quick perusal suggested there was very little in the way of vital information.  A practitioner who focused on things that had fallen between the cracks was known to the practitioner community as a ‘scourge’, and it seemed like Rose was leaning that way. Just by the language of the text, the assumption seemed to be that the people who were reading the book were very angry types with revenge or hostility in mind.

I could only assume that those did like Green Eyes had suggested and went down to the places between the cracks to collect fallen things for use were to scourges what grandmother Rose was to the diabolist community.  The scary ones you didn’t want to tick off, who knew their stuff and were very good at doing what they did without getting killed.

The book had no explanations about what types of bogeymen there were or how they could sustain themselves.  It was a text for people looking for quick answers, types who wanted to hurt a rival or answer an insult, often in the bloodiest, most horrible ways.

The last chapter, however, did have some information I could use.

Binding a bogeyman typically involved using some form of the natural elements, and things with permanence.  In the former case, it depended based on the type of bogeyman and the place beyond the cracks in reality that they had come from.  Some were particularly vulnerable to running water, others struggled to move solid objects and could easily be trapped or stopped by a simple closed door.  Yet others didn’t like fire.

Moat, box, or burning circle could serve, depending on the type.

The other option was old items that had a history and durability to them, antiques. - Excerpt from Malfeasance 11.2</ref><ref name=":10">The final chapter was, as far as I could tell, the ‘I fucked up, how do I run damage control?’ for novice scourges.  Troubleshooting and understanding where things could go wrong.  It said a lot that it was the last chapter, as if the assumption on the part of the guy who put the catalogue together was that the scourges would prioritize summoning first and fixing problems later.

Diabolists, priests, and now scourges, as sorts who were their own worst enemies, setting themselves up for failure.

The book followed a trend I’d noticed, where authors really liked referencing their other texts.  I imagined it was a way of selling more books to what was no doubt a niche market.  Couldn’t fully understand the contents of ‘Lost and Bound: Bogeymen’ without ‘Plumbing Darkest Depths’ first.

Those who’d buy just the catalogue without getting the work that presumably introduced concepts was probably reckless to begin with. The ideas raised in the last chapter seemed to be intent on answering that sort of recklessness.

Bogeyman came with a container, practitioner broke the container?  Approaches to binding rituals.

Sent bogeyman to go murder someone in the most horrible ways possible, but they were blocked, and came back to me, what does the practitioner do?  Do the same thing, and hope they aren’t equipped to bounce it back for the third total time, because it would be far stronger on the third trip. - excerpt from Malfeasance 11.2</ref>

Maddening Things

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" />

Observations on Bacchae interacting in Modern Society

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Bacchae.

On Others

A thick and notable book, the Hillsglade House library held all the editions from 1964 through 2012.<ref name=":0" />

Others

Volume one, chapter one of this book includes details of the Seal of Solomon.<ref>Given Barbatorem’s nature, this author would recommend another means of baiting him in the future, as he will remember, anticipate and adapt with each means used. He agreed to be bound by the seal of Suleiman bin Daoud four months after the initial capture. See the Others volumes, book one, chapter one, if unfamiliar with the seal. The diagram this author used for entrapment, necessitating only one line to open or close, can be found on page five of this entry, followed by the means of summoning and the recommended diagram for imprisonment. - Excerpt frp, Bonds 1.7</ref>

Other Soldiers

A book in the Blue Heron Institute library<ref name=":11" /> covering Others of War such as Dogs of War, Red Swords, Warborne, and Gore-streaked Practitioners.<ref>She read about Others of War.  There was something about Dogs of War. [...]

She paged through the rest.  Red Swords were Others who were derived from Incarnations of Battle and War, and were complex, nuanced weapons with souls, carried by faceless Others that wielded them.  Warborne were those born into places where war held more sway than life, death, or any of the other pillars of creation [...]

Gore-streaked.  It had come up in the student handbook, that four of their classmates were from the ‘Gore-Streaked’ Hennigar family. Practitioners who emulated the Warborne, or artificially created that Warborne state. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

Pacts and Prices

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1" />

Plumbing Darkest Depths

A guide for becoming a Scourge.<ref name=":10" />

Poppets

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably deals with Sympathetic magic.

Prime Movers

A book on Angels and possibly related Others.<ref name="FA" />

Prominent Feuds

A book in the Hillsglade House library that Blake read while researching the threat of execution via Witch Hunter.<ref name=":9" />

Pitiable

Subtitled Transcriptions from informal dialogues with Vampir.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Vampires.

Quasi

A book on Heartless practices and the blurry definition of humanity. Quoted at length in Bonus Material: Bedtime Reading.

Shamanism

Found in the Hillsglade House library. A multi-volume work, with volumes 1-6 subtitled "Animus" and 7-10 subtitled "Umbra".<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Shamanism.

Standards

Found in the Hillsglade House library. Subtitled A history of practices for dealings between the gifted.<ref name=":8" />

Sympathetic Magics

A book on sympathetic magic found in the Hillsglade House library.<ref>Malfeasance 11.2</ref> Cover features the author's coat of arms. Defaced by Blake to get a message to Rose.<ref>Malfeasance 11.3</ref>

The Maledictions Manifest

A book on curses found on the Atheneum Arrangement. Only 20 of 100 pages are only available with written permission and a sign a terms of service.<ref name=":15">The Maledictions Manifest.  80 of the 100 pages were available.  Some of the higher-end stuff required she get permission and sign a pracitioner-written set of terms of service first.

Deleterious Practices and Curses.  Various approaches to curses.  Law-based curses, Immaterial curses.  The Visceral Malison.- Excerpt from Dash to Pieces 11.12</ref>

The Visceral Malison

A book on curses on the Atheneum Arrangement.<ref name=":15" />

The Worst of the Others

A book on Diabolism written by Rose Thorburn Senior.<ref name=":1" />

Valkyries

By the same author as a book on Vestiges. The cover is leather, with the image of a helmeted woman in profile. Discusses Valkyries and ghosts, in enough detail to learn basic Valkyrie magic.<ref>“Bookshelf two, third shelf from the bottom.  It’s by the same author that wrote the book on Vestiges.  Valkyries.”
[...]
The book was easy enough to find.  The image on the front was similar to that of the Vestiges book.  A woman’s face in profile, complete with a winged helmet, pressed into the leather cover.
[...]
“I read it because I thought maybe it was related to vestiges like me.  And it is.  But this one focuses on ghosts too, on historical elements, and some more practical applications.  You’ve got practitioners who specialize a hundred percent on ghosts and vestiges.  A kind of necromancy.”

“Death magic.”

“Right.  In this case, you’ve got practitioners convincing warriors, usually dying soldiers, that there’s an amazing afterlife of parties and respect for their deeds waiting for them, so the warriors agree to give up their spirits after death.  Use that agreement to help make a vestige or create a ghost, a representation of their skills or their knowledge, their strength, whatever else, and imbue all of that into a vessel.”
[...]
“But I like the concept.  I like the author.  The book talks about working with ghosts being an option for a practitioner without many resources, in an area where practitioners have already taken hold of everything worth holding, or where the Lord forbids certain practices. You take a ghost, you imbue an object, and you’ve got…”

“A magical item?” - Excerpt from Damages 2.3</ref><ref>“We chant the spirit’s name.  This should establish a tenuous connection.  You put power into that connection.”
“How?” I asked.

“Blood.  Draw a symbol, like you see in the book, the median line running parallel to any line of connection you see between yourself and the ghost.  Blood is power, basically the most distilled and direct form you can offer."
[...]
I reached past the border of salt and drew out the symbol, copying what was on the open page in the book. - Excerpt from Damages 2.3</ref>

Vessels

A book found in the Blue Heron Institute library, implied to cover Vessels such as Edith James.<ref name=":11" />

Vestige: Glimmers and Gasps

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" /> Presumably concerns Vestiges.

Walls of Chalk

A book on Warding found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":12" />

Wū zhěn: Eastern Vodun Practices

A book in the Hillsglade House library.<ref name=":0" />

Umbrage

A text for Scourges.<ref>Bonus Material: Demesnes Text</ref>

Unnamed Books

• An alchemical glossary found in the Hillsglade House library.<ref>Twenty large, fat coins.  I couldn’t make head or tails of the

language on the coin’s faces.  I was careful as I moved them aside, wary of the guard I couldn’t see or hear.

Two books.  One on alchemy, more like a dictionary than any kind of spellbook, filled with tables and measurements and Latin words.  Aqua Regia, Aurum Regia, Aqua Justatium, Lapis Philosophorum, and so on.  Each chapter was prefaced with the sort of stuff that started with ‘Evidenced herein’ and spent more time referring to other parts of the text than it did actually saying anything. - Excerpt from Malfeasance 11.2</ref><ref>Ty reached around, grabbing a book, and placed it so it sat open, standing up, blocking his view of Evan’s cards.  He did the same for me, dealing the two cards face up, behind the books.  It looked like he’d done it before.

Nothing interesting in the book.  A glossary of alchemical symbols, it looked like.

He doled out what looked like copper coins from another nationality. - Excerpt from Malfeasance 11.1</ref>

• An alchemy textbook found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":13">Avery found some stuff on Alchemy, picked out one book, then handed it

to Verona, pointing and giving her a light push to put her on course for the rest of the books in that department. [...] Verona had found the Alchemy, Realms, and Rhetoric texts, organizing them into three stacks. [...] “Cool, cool,” Verona said, already hunched over the Alchemy text. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.2</ref>

• A book on Realms found in the Blue Heron Institute library.<ref name=":13" />
• A book on the use of rhetoric in magic found in the BHI library.<ref name=":13" />
• A French-language comic read by Snowdrop and Cherrypop where a guy gets a spine shoved down his throat.<ref>She placed the papers on the nightstand, tucked her fork into her waistband, and then sat down on the bed, stabbing herself in the belly with the fork.  She adjusted, lay back, and paged through her graphic novel.  It was in French, and had been left out in the woods for at least one bout of rainy weather, and the blue in the cover had faded away.  But it was a gift from Cherry.  Cherrypop liked the part where the one guy got someone else’s spine jammed down his throat, even though she couldn’t really read that well.  Snowdrop could recite it all by heart now. - Excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.x</ref>

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