The Books of Xavarian
This elaborate, thick, yet easily transportable tome seems to have only a bit of wear, yet the feel of a book with purpose. The pages are crisp, as though the book were bound not too long ago, with a hard cover of black leather and protective golden metal that is littered with more gold accents; golden symbols on the cover and spine, gold leaf on the page edges. The bindings themselves are with a bright red string, though outwardly protected and atop the spine, a small, ovular, deep blue gemstone inset in silver, with two ‘blade-like’ silver adornments on either side surrounding the stone. This emblem, however, seems only to be a symbol without any real sharpness. There is no title to the tome, just the strange symbols to signify whatever purpose it has to whomever might make sense of them. In addition, there are rings that appear securely snapped into the tome specifically for travel by belt-side, and a particular loop along the book's spine meant for a particular size of pen to be fitted into.
But upon opening the book’s cover, one will see in neatly scribed letters on the first page:
The Book of Beginnings: Unsorted
Xavarian Mystrife
The page just afterwards is blank, with only a few pages filled thereafter.Â
And what’s found on those pages span a number of things; recollections, notes, diagrams, even riddles.  Flipping through, eventually one would reach something more recent…
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