Biblignosts are the spirits of dead librarians, booksellers, teachers, sages, arcanists, and other intellectuals whose love of the written word was so great that it prevented them from departing to the afterlife. After departing the mortal coil, the souls of such individuals transmigrate into their favorite books. The bibliognost’s “body” is composed of several dozen volumes that, when roused from dormancy, shift themselves into a vaguely humanoid form.
These undead creatures haunt places where its beloved books are stored, such libraries, wizards’ studies, and scriptoria, acting as their selfappointed overseers and protectors. The learning it has absorbed over the years is unique in many regards, but most of the time a bibliognost is too pedantic and thoughtless to share it with others. However, it can be singularly courteous and welcoming to visitors that can match its erudition or love of books.
This room is the lair of a biblignosts and his two companions, a pair of sentient spell books
The Biblignost's name is Aravel, and he was a librarian when Black Alice walked these halls. If he is befriended, he will be able to look up the exact volumes she checked out. He will also know that she spent time not just in "Celestial Navigation" but in "The Shadowlands" sections of the library.
If offered help he will wax indigent that "Raist and Cast have taken over the eastern library and won't let me properly categorize it"
Living Spell Books
An ancient volume hovers in the air, its pages, turning on their own volition and glowing with magical sigils. Sentient Wizardly Tomes. The origins of the living spellbook are as mysterious and varied as the art of magic itself. Sometimes, upon death, an archmage’s spirit merges with the spellbook and gives it a semblance of life; sometimes, it animates due to a transmutation spell gone awry; sometimes, it does so as a result of a meticulously prepared arcane ritual. Freed and Bound by Magic. The living spellbook takes after its owner in many ways, mimicking his or her personality, speech patterns, mannerisms, and alignment. Some living spellbooks accidentally come into being as twisted mockeries of their wizard owners, murdering them and adopting their identity. Despite having free wills, they feel bound to their places of creation (usually a wizard’s study) and rarely venture far away from them, even if they have rebelled against their masters