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PatrikLundell

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The human caravan showed up and brought two copies of "Records of Sleep", a manual concerned the secret of life and death. I didn't think those were supposed to be brought by caravans?
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martinuzz

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Re: Books with the secrets of life and death brought by caravan
« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2020, 04:48:46 am »

The human caravan showed up and brought two copies of "Records of Sleep", a manual concerned the secret of life and death. I didn't think those were supposed to be brought by caravans?
Apparently they do.
Bonus points if they bring Death of a Salesman next year.
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Re: Books with the secrets of life and death brought by caravan
« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2020, 06:31:52 am »

Sounds like more of the necro-craziness that needs to be throttled back a bit.
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Re: Books with the secrets of life and death brought by caravan
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2020, 09:43:41 am »

Where was the book originally written?

How did it arrive at the human settlement?
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Re: Books with the secrets of life and death brought by caravan
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2020, 11:26:55 am »

The caravan brought copies (as usual: I've never seen an original, and think that's intentional). The one and only entry in exported legends info states it was written by a necro in a castle somewhere.

And the next year's caravan brought A World of Mortality (copy) by the same author. Again, the single entry state the original was written in the same castle.
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martinuzz

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Re: Books with the secrets of life and death brought by caravan
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2020, 07:36:29 pm »

Sounds like more of the necro-craziness that needs to be throttled back a bit.
I don't think it should be in this case. It's player choice whether or not to buy the book from the caravan.
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Re: Books with the secrets of life and death brought by caravan
« Reply #6 on: June 26, 2020, 12:13:34 am »

Agreed. But should such knowledge really be that commonly available instead of being tightly guarded secrets?
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Re: Books with the secrets of life and death brought by caravan
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2020, 07:35:10 am »

Is it common? As far as I know, Patrik is the first person mentioning it since the update.
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Re: Books with the secrets of life and death brought by caravan
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2020, 07:55:09 am »

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Re: Books with the secrets of life and death brought by caravan
« Reply #9 on: June 26, 2020, 08:37:31 am »

Is it common? As far as I know, Patrik is the first person mentioning it since the update.

Oh, I see. I got the impression from your post that it was common, my mistake.
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