What's your favorite in-game book?

T0M_R3V3N · April 2016

Happy weekend everyone!

Ever take a moment from collecting skillpoints to read those books in game, or visit a fan website to check them out? Do you have a favorite? Why?

For me, my favorite is "I Was Summoned by a Mortal" by Kynval Zzedenkathik which tells the story of a daedra being ripped from his plane to serve a mage for a brief while. It's kind of funny to think about summoning from the other side of things!

Thanks for your replies!

-TR

Voxicity · April 2016

Not really a book but I remember my first time playing there was a delve (I have no idea where) with a Khajiit boss at the end of it, and a bunch of dead spider corpses in the same room.

The note in the boss room reads something like ''a nightblade came and killed my babies''

It actually takes the players class and assigns it to that variable in the note. I thought it was an awesome detail.

Abeille · April 2016

I'm between Confessions of a Khajiit Fur Trader and I Was Summoned By A Mortal.

I throughly enjoyed Telenger the Artificer's book about the time he watched "The Lusty Argonian Maid" play, and his considerations on it.

Seraseth · April 2016

I like the diplomatic notice in an AD camp detailing how the altmer should deal with their new allies.

Points include
Don't pull a khajiit's tail
Don't feed them cat food
Don't cut down a tree in front of a bosmer and
Don't ask a bosmer how to cook khajiit.

menedhyn · April 2016

More of a scroll than a book (but categorised as a book, I think): 'Tale of Two Moons', which is a Khajiit poem about changing moon phases and seasons. It has a certain charm and appeal. I try to read as many of the in-game books as I can.

Lynx7386 · April 2016

A tale of two moons

As the sky falls white on Elsweyr
When the frost forms on the lake
When the fires blaze in brightness
When old bones begin to ache
Then cats cast off their budis
And fur keeps out the cold
And small moon chases big moon
And tells him secrets old
But then blue skies o'er Elsweyr
When rivers stream with light
When fires die in ashes
When youth again takes flight
Then cats rewrap their budis
And comb out rich, thick manes
And big moon chases small moon
And frees her from her chains

LindsC · April 2016

The Lusty Argonian Maid

Gargath · April 2016

A Guide to Fishing Tamriel, the one I read the most often

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Saturn · April 2016

Not sure if they are in ESO (some books do cross over from the TES games, but some also don't), but I'm a really big fan of Fall of the Snow Prince and the Biographies of Barenziah (but I doubt all of these are in ESO since there are quite many in the series).

TheShadowScout · April 2016

Hmmm... well, I have to agree with some of the people here that "I was summoned by a mortal" is definitely one of the highlights I found memorable... though I have to admit, I also found those "Confessions of a Khajiit Fur Trader" to be darkly amusing. Would be hard to choose between the two, though I would go with the daedric tale myself...
I also enjoyed the lorebooks, such as the tale of "The Battle at Red Mountain", though those are more background and hardly viable as "favorite"...

However, as this are the forums, there is one tale that must be mentioned... "Almalexia and the Mudcrab" - those who follow the topics here may experience a strange sense of Deja Vue if they know that particular story...

Danikat · April 2016

My favourite TES books can't be in ESO: A Dance in Fire and The Wolf Queen. I always try to collect both series, and occasionally have resorted to buying volumes from bookshops to complete the collection.

Within ESO my favourite is probably Confessions of a Khajiit Fur Trader. I was genuinely horrified reading it and afterwards realised it was kind of cool that a short story about characters who don't even appear in the game (as far as I know) can get that kind of a reaction from me.

T0M_R3V3N · April 2016

TheShadowScout wrote: »

Hmmm... well, I have to agree with some of the people here that "I was summoned by a mortal" is definitely one of the highlights I found memorable... though I have to admit, I also found those "Confessions of a Khajiit Fur Trader" to be darkly amusing. Would be hard to choose between the two, though I would go with the daedric tale myself...
I also enjoyed the lorebooks, such as the tale of "The Battle at Red Mountain", though those are more background and hardly viable as "favorite"...

However, as this are the forums, there is one tale that must be mentioned... "Almalexia and the Mudcrab" - those who follow the topics here may experience a strange sense of Deja Vue if they know that particular story...

Perhaps the best allegory for forum dwellers in existence!!

Danikat · April 2016

Saturn wrote: »

Not sure if they are in ESO (some books do cross over from the TES games, but some also don't), but I'm a really big fan of Fall of the Snow Prince and the Biographies of Barenziah (but I doubt all of these are in ESO since there are quite many in the series).

Biographies of Barenziah (and The Real Barenziah) can't be in ESO because they're set after Tiber Septim takes over and establishes his empire, which won't happen until after the Three Banners War (aka alliance war in Cyrodiil). In fact that may be what ends the war.

I don't know Fall of the Snow Prince however, so I'm not sure about that one.

Czeri · April 2016

I really like "Orcs and their Tusks", and also Swineherd Victon's musings on what a pig needs...

theher0not · April 2016

The Lusty Argonian Maid part 1 (found somewhere in AD) (the one when she "rubbed the spear" all night. That is a true horror story)

Argonian Mating Rituals(Found in Shadowscale in the decerter altmer camp) (not dirty but it was intresting to read that argonians act very differently than the other races in Tamriel)

Different faiths: Khajiit (found in Green shade or Malbar Tor, don't recall) (love how they refer to Sheogarath as "Skooma Cat")

Bosmer Jokes(found in Malbar Tor). It has many fun jokes like "what side of the raven has the most feathers? The outside" or "why did the monekys fall down from the tree? Because they are dead" and my personal favorite "what has three heads, smells bad and is uggly? My bad, you don't have three heads"

rotaugen454 · April 2016

I liked "A nereid stole my husband".

nine9six · April 2016

Not in ESO: A Tragedy In Black

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:A_Tragedy_in_Black

IDK what my favorite ESO book is, TBH.

DephlaterMouse · April 2016

The locked room I think it's called. The one where she has to unlock a door in 30 minutes or be food for a starving elder vampire.

Also I really enjoyed chances folley, and wood cutters wife/cabin in the woods crossover legend.

Ra'Shtar · April 2016

Confessions of a Khajiit fur trader, it was quite disturbing it left a mark on my brain.

Tryxus · April 2016

"Ardent Flame: Draconic or Endemic?"

I bet my Lava Whip's bigger

waterfairy · April 2016

It's strange, I love games and I love books but not books in games. I hoarded every book in the past 2 TES games and was planning on sitting down to read them someday but that day never came.

It could be the screen thing as I prefer my reading done in hand with that good hardcover feel (or fancy leather bound feels mmm).

rotaugen454 · April 2016

There was a PDF file combining all the Skyrim books (and it was huge!) so I'm hoping to see the same thing for ESO.

nimander99 · April 2016

The one about the khajiti spraying on its dunmer masters furniture... <---I made that up but it would be funny.

magictucktuck · April 2016

Lusty argonian maid v2

Saturn · April 2016

Danikat wrote: »

Saturn wrote: »

Not sure if they are in ESO (some books do cross over from the TES games, but some also don't), but I'm a really big fan of Fall of the Snow Prince and the Biographies of Barenziah (but I doubt all of these are in ESO since there are quite many in the series).

Biographies of Barenziah (and The Real Barenziah) can't be in ESO because they're set after Tiber Septim takes over and establishes his empire, which won't happen until after the Three Banners War (aka alliance war in Cyrodiil). In fact that may be what ends the war.

I don't know Fall of the Snow Prince however, so I'm not sure about that one.

Ah, right, well that's also why I put the little bracket thingy 'cause I wasn't sure.

Acsvf · April 2016

The Lusty Argonian Maid, and I Was Summoned by a Mortal.
If books that are not in ESO count, then Beggar tops those.

ListerJMC · April 2016

Not exactly a book, but I got a laugh out of Gwendis' highly detailed masterpiece "Ravenwatch Research: Aesar Hatespinner". I came across it again recently:

Verandis and his thirst for knowledge and research is going to be the death of me. Watching a big, dumb spider is just plain boring!

Big spider tended eggs.

Big spider spun webs.

Big spider bored me, so I'm done here.

—Gwendis

ListerJMC · April 2016

Vox wrote: »

Not really a book but I remember my first time playing there was a delve (I have no idea where) with a Khajiit boss at the end of it, and a bunch of dead spider corpses in the same room.

The note in the boss room reads something like ''a nightblade came and killed my babies''

It actually takes the players class and assigns it to that variable in the note. I thought it was an awesome detail.

Yes I remember that! He had a dream that a Redguard was going to come and kill his children, I was a little stunned that it mentioned my character in it and even felt a little bad about doing it.

RoseVex · April 2016

My favourite would have to be Night Falls on Sentinel although I do love the Investigator Vale series as well. I think the 36 Lessons of Vivec deserve a mention as well especially Sermon 14

aldriq · April 2016

My favourite is still A Hypothetical Treachery, it's a great little Shakespearean farce, with elves and a ghost, of course!

Wolfsong · April 2016

I rather enjoyed the journal of a researcher who was studying a goblin clan. I believe it was in the DC.