Volumes of the Architect

The Volumes of the Architect are a set of about fifty books in the Sürgün Günlükleri ("Exile Chronicles") campaign, credited by O.C. to a being he calls The Architect. They name no one, but record the places and dates of the events that unusually lucky people will live through; O.C. identified the passages about himself by research. Most of the volumes had been gathered by an order, from which he stole them in White City.^{1 2}

By his account the volumes cover not the whole history of the world but a short span of it: their earliest marked events lie some nine or ten years in the past, and the company reckoned that they would run out within a few years. He says the books themselves were found some three hundred years ago and are written on ordinary paper and ink of that time.^{3 4}

Sometimes the text sets out every movement, sometimes only the outcome. O.C. studied a fight with duergar a week in advance and followed the written steps, and he has tried small departures from them. He showed the company a worn black volume with torn edges and missing pages, marked XXVII, and said he had read no further, fearing that knowing more would change what he did. He showed one companion part of a page about a past stroke of luck, but would not open it fully.^{5 4 6}

Other volumes

In a sealed duergar hall beneath the dwarven mountains, the crumbled book held by a dwarf-sized skeleton was pieced together by magic; the numeral XXX appeared on its spine, but its text did not return. Later a nobleman of White City recalled selling a rare book, which he had thought nonsense, some twenty years earlier, and being paid in stones.^{7 8}

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After the Puppeteer's fall, the book O.C. followed wrote nothing further.⁹