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A Brush with Evil: On Hags -
Absolutely Unnerving -
Acquisitions -
A is for Azuth, and other Gods I -
A is for Azuth, and other Gods II -
A is for Azuth, and other Gods III - A is for Azuth, and other Gods VI
- A is for Azuth, and other Gods VII
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A is for Azuth, and other Gods IX -
A is for Azuth, and other Gods XI -
A Fall of Netheril -
A Guide to Avernus - One Hellish Holiday - A History of the Flaming Fist
- A Hunter's Guide to Hags
- A List of Essential Personnel
- A Modest Guide To Sword Coast Wine
- A Mummy's Memories
- A New Blasphemy: Bloodletting and Sanguine Arcana
- 'An History of the Society of Brilliance as Told by Its Members'
- Annotated Ship's Manifest
- A Pleasurable Deal
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A Promising Candidate - A Primer on Mythical Beasts
- A Sprinter's Guide to Goblins
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A Study of Ores - A Study of Spores and their Supraterranean Effects
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A Swift and Sudden Death - A Tour of Tempest
- A Traveller's Guide to Baldur's Gate
- Abandoned Journal
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Abandoned Journal (Lower City) - About Creation of Orphic Hammer
- Absolving the Wayward Heart
- Accelerated Grand Design
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Account of the Establishment of Crèche Y'llek - Address Book
- Adopters of Culture
- Adventures on the Sea of Fallen Stars
- Always Hungry
- Amaps' Memoirs
- An Archduke's Leadership: Decorum
- An Archduke's Leadership: Discipline
- An Archduke's Leadership: Protection
- An Archduke's Leadership: Public Works
- An Archduke's Leadership: Surveillance
- An Archduke's Leadership: Verification
- An End to Suffering
- Ancient Selûnite Journal
- Apothecary's Ledger
- Apprentice's Journal
- Arfur's Private Musings
- Armbrust's Ledger
- Art Appraisal
- Artefact Mission: Agent Roster
- Artefact Mission: Challenges
- Art Show Schedule
- Attention Acolytes
- Attracting Drow Exiles
- Avernus Survival Guide
- Baelen's Alchemical Notes
- Bagida's Diary
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Balduran Founds a City - Balduran the Sailor
- Baldur's Bones
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Baldur's Gate and the Dialectics of Plunder - Baldur's Gate Protectors
- Baldur's Gate Temple Of Bhaal
- Balthazar's Notes
- Balthazar Personal Notes: 2
- Balthazar Personal Notes: 3
- Bane's Book of Admonitions
- BAN LIST
- Barcus' Log
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Barkskin Recipe - Battle Plans
- Beheading the Bitterroots
- Bhaal Cult Resurgence
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Blood Bank Log - Blood-Envy for the Unworthy
- Blood-Smeared Logbook
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Bloody Journal - Bonded By Love - Husband's Diary
- Bonded By Love - Wife's Diary
- Book Draft - Volume I
- Book Draft - Volume II
- Book Draft - Volume III
- Book Draft - Volume IV
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Book of Dead Gods - Book of Final Breath
- Book of Poetry
- Born to be Wild
- Broom and Bucket
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Burnt Journal - Canticles of the Dark Mistress
- Captives of Shar
- Chapel Records
- Charred Prayer Book
- Cheese Record
- Circus of the Last Days: Employees
- Clasped Book (Moonrise Towers)
- Clasped Book (The Glitter Gala)
- Client List
- Cobbler's Ledger
- Codicilliary Rules of Engagements for the Flaming Fist
- Colfax's Compendium of Consecrated Creatures
- Concerning Orin the Red
- Confessions, Vol. 1, Father Lorgan
- Confiscated Book
- Confronting the False Heart
- Consolation of the Dark
- Corsairs of Luskan
- Counting the Conchs
- Crawler Mucus Poison Recipe
- Credo of the Rack-Stricken Lord
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Crimes of the Moonmaiden - Crumbling File
- Curfew (Confidential Orders)
- Dalyria's Journal
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Damaged Journal - Dammon's Journal
- Dangerous Tunes
- Dark Journal
- Dark Justiciar's Journal
- Dark Justiciar's Plea
- Dawsen Kiltmaker's Confession
- De Hurst's Diary
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Dead Druid's Journal - Death & Divinity: A Godly Guide
- Derryth's Journal
- Devil Don't Rhyme - A Verse Epic
- Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 1
- Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 2
- Diary of Ketheric Thorm, Vol 3
- Diary, 1492DR, Ffion Goldgrind
- Discarded Journal
- Diseases of the Blood
- Disintegrating Journal
- Disorders of the Nerves and Mind: A Treatise
- Dispatches Ledger
- Divine Rapture of Ilmater
- Donation Record
- Don't Prod the Specimen
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Don't Sniff the Specimen - Don't Swallow the Specimen
- Downfall of the Iron Throne
- Druid Notebook
- Druids' Ledger
- Dufay's Diary
- Dusty Book
- Dusty Prayerbook
- Dwarven Taxonomy
- Easy Furnitures DIY
- Efficacious Brain Removal
- Eilistraee: Lady Silverhair
- Elder Brain Domination
- Elder's Journal
- Employee Pay Log
- Encyclopaedia Apotheca, by Sandre Toliar
- Enhanced' Weapons - Sales Ledger
- Enver... Is your blood sweet?
- Engraved Githyanki Disc
- Estra's Insights
- Ethical Review of the Flaming Fist
- Evading the Elder Brain
- Evil's Ascent
- Excavation of the Enclave of Nhalloth
- Exile
- Experiment on Cruor
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Extracts - The Rule of Three - Eyewitness Account
- Fables of Faerûn I: The Dimwitted Drow
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Fables of Faerûn II: The Daring Duergar - Fables of Faerûn III: The Enticing Elder
- Fables of Faerûn IV: The Magnanimous Miner
- Fables of Faerûn V: The Boy and the Beholder
- Fables of Faerûn VI: The Cheerful Deep Gnome
- Fables of Rashemi
- Facemaker, Tastemaker
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Faded Blueprints - Faded Instructions
- Faded Logbook (Selunite, 124)
- Faded Logbook (Selunite, 182)
- Faded Logbook (Meerna)
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Faldorn's Canticle: The Shadow Druids' Doctrine -
Ffion's Journal -
Fiendish Alchemy - Fiendish Bestiary
- Findings from the Hinterlands - New Edition
- Fine at Home: A Cookery Book
- Five (Or Six) Heroes
- Flaming Fist History
- Flaming Fist New Recruit Booklet
- Flask of Light
- Flintdigger's Abridged Dwarven History
- Flophouse Issues
- Flophouse Rules
- Flophouse Tenants Logs
- Flow of the Chionthar
- Folksongs of Faerûn
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Forge Construction Log - Forging Success
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Fringe Philosophy, Vol. V - Front and Centre: A Thespian's Memoir
- Garlow's Retirement Plan
- Gerringothe's Logbook
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Get to Baldur's Gate - Ghustil Stornugoss' Research Notes
- Glory of the Absolute
- Glory to the House of Oblodra
- Gnomefather
- Gond and Gripping Life By The Tongs
- Gondian Automaton Conversion
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Gondian Autoprinter Manual - Gondian Research Report
- Guest Log
- Guestbook of Rosymorn Abbey
- Graveyard Diary
- Grymforge: A History
- Guide to Taming Worgs
- Habits of Patriars
- Hag Research Notes
- Hairy Henry's Journal
- Halfred's Note
- Halsin's Journal, Vol I
- Harper Journal
- Harper's Notebook
- Harvest of Memory
- Havkelaag's Journal
- Havkelaag's Notes
- Healer's Log
- Healers' Ledger
- Heavy Book
- Helm-Embossed Journal
- Her Love For it Was Like A Plum
- Highcliff's Journal
- His Holy Blood, Vol. 1, Dawnmaster Dovaer
- His Holy Blood, Vol. 2, Paladin Vaseid
- His Holy Blood, Vol. 3, Dawnmaster Vaseid
- Hostage Census
- Hostel Registry
- House Rules of the Bee Hive
- How to Build a Watcher
- How to Track an Illithid
- Hymns for the Gone
- Ideas for New Outfits
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Illasera, the First - Ilmatari Combat Manual
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Impractical Magic, Volume 1 - In the Mode of Masters
- Incomplete Journal
- Infernal Contracts And Bargains
- Infirmary Records
- Inklings
- Ink-Spattered Journal
- Inner Peace: The Path to Perfection
- Innkeeper's Journal
- Inroads by Arms Dealer Gortash
- Inscribed Githyanki Slate
- Inscrutable Journal
- Intelligence concerning the weapon
- Interrogation Log
- Into the Feywild
- Inventory of Takings
- Inventory Report
- Investigation Notes
- Ironhand Gnomes: Our Grievances
- Iron Throne - Windup and Shutdown
- Isobel's Diary
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Jake's Encyclopaedia of Eels - Jhessem's Journal
- Journal Log of True Soul Korliss
- Journal of Enver Gortash
- Journal of Gyldro Angleiron
- Journal of High Initiate Jarrus
- Journal of Magthew Budj
- Journal of a Novice Monk
- Journey Through The Jungle
- Judge of the Damned
- Kobold Journal
- Lacie and the Modrons
- Lady Jannath's Journal
- Larethian
- Last Notes of a Monk
- Leather-Bound Book
- Ledger: Blood Donors
- Ledger of Production: Explosives
- Lessons for Sensible Living IV: Cities and How to Survive Them
- Lessons for Sensible Living XII: Zariel's Fall
- Lessons from the Boiler
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Lessons of Helm - Level Up Your Life
- Life of Beaky
- Lo! A Most Joyous Sensation!
- Log of Visitors to Rosymorn Monastery
- Logbook of Sendings
- Logbook XII: 1371
- Lower City and Upper City
- Lunar Dark Lies
- Maggie's Recipe for Perfect Cookies
- Magical Histories, Volume 1: The Origins of Mystra
- Magical Histories, Volume 2: The Spellplague
- Magical Histories, Volume 3: The Second Sundering
- Magical Histories, Volume 4: The Chosen of Mystra
- Magic of the Weave - An Introduction
- Magmar's Record
- Manifesto
- Manipulations and Motivations: Sacrifice
- Mantras and Meditations of the Sun Soul
- Manual of Hilaritie for the Trulie Unfunnie
- Manuscript
- Mason's Log
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Masters of the Painterly Arts - Mastodonian Memoirs, Vol. 1, Investigator Valeria
- Meditations, Vol. 1, Father Lorgan
- Memoir Notes with Recent Addenda
- Memoirs of My Death
- Memoirs, Vol 1, Sister Clarwen
- Memory Book
- Merchant's Almanac: The Coast Way
- Merchant's Almanac: The Trade Way
- Meticulous Notes
- Missives of Candlekeep
- Mistress of Souls' Research Log
- Mistress of the Night and Friends
- Moonhaven Logbook
- Mother of Halflings
- Moxy's Mixology Manual
- Murder, Be My Muse
- Mysterious Moonshae
- Myth Drannan Amphigory
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Necromantic Codexes, Their Enigmas - Needle's Points: Tips for Top Stories
- Night-Night, Pirate Ship
- NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
- No Price Too High
- Note About the Shield of Silvam
- Notes from a Soothsayer
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Notes on Mind Flayer Anatomy - Notice
- Observations on the Shadow Curse
- Officially Unofficial Circus History
- Olam's Journal
- Old Architectural Collection
- Old Maintenance Records
- Old Schoolbook
- Oliver's Diary
- On Antidotes
- On Death & Resurrection
- On Educating the Faithful
- One-Eye
- One Foot, Two Feet, Well Met, We'll Meet
- One Night in Nashkel
- On Goblins: My Life Among the Conquering Host
- Ongoing Murder Investigations
- On Illithids, Volume XXVI
- On Potions and Elixirs
- On Psionic Manipulations and Countermeasures
- On Receiving Her Grace
- On Serpent Venom Toxin
- On Sloth, Gluttony, and Vice
- On the Greater Healing Potion
- 'On the Inevitability of Moral Decay and its Benefits'
- On the Origins of Evil
- On the Origins of the Zhentarim
- On the Weary, Vol. 1, Father Lorgan
- On Weapon Coatings
- Oral Histories of Faerûn: Gith and Mind Flayers
- Oral Histories of Faerûn: Paladin Oathbreakers
- Oral Histories of Faerûn: The Spellplague
- Order of Ilmatari Service
- Order of the Gauntlet: On Matters of Law and Justice
- Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part One: Betrayal
- Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part Two: Sacrifice
- Orpheus, Prince of the Comet, Part Three: Resurrection
- Our Enemies' Fate
- Out of the Sausage Tube Into The Shadow
- Overlapping Lines
- Pandirna's Diary
- Park Keeper's Journal
- Passage of Penitence
- Patient Log: Duke Belynne Stelmane
- Patients' Registry
- Patriars, A Homegrown Aristocracy
- Patriars Journal
- Peer Review
- Plea of Rest
- Post House Delivery Complaints
- Post-House Dog's Log
- Potion Catalogue
- Potion of Animal Speaking Recipe
- Potion of Healing Recipe
- Potion of Mind Reading Recipe
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Prayer for Forgiveness - Prayers of Repent
- Priestess' Journal
- Primer on Calimshan
- Prisoner's Journal
- Prison Log
- Profiling Methods
- Provender Ledger
- Queen of Kingpins
- Queen of Ravens
- Ragged Diary
- Raphael's Diary - Chapter 1
- Raphael's Diary - Chapter 2
- Raphael's Diary - Chapter 3
- Recipe of Drow Poison
- Recipe of Elixir of Arcane Cultivation
- Recipe of Elixir of Necrotic Resistance
- Recipe of Wyvern Toxin
- Record of Complaints
- Recruiting Gnolls
- Redhammer's Journal
- Reflections of a Gullible Prick
- Reflections Upon the Mirror of Loss
- Refugee Arrival Record
- Refugee's Journal
- Register of Goods Received
- Register of Temple Deadspeakers
- Registry of Citizens' Complaints
- Research Notes (Balthazar)
- Research Notes (Waning Moon)
- Ribald Shanties for the Discerning Whoreson
- Rives' Failures as a Banite
- Rules for Elfsong Customers
- Runepowder and the Modern Gnome
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Safe and Sound: a Guide to our Vaults - Sarevok Anchev: A Study in Suffering
- Scaled Scions of Abeir
- Schematic Compendium
- Schematics for Subsurface Vessel
- Schools of Magic: Necromancy
- Scorched Book
- Scorching Street - A Flaming Fist Ruleset
- Scrapbook of Letters
- Scrapbook of Love Letters
- Scrappy Order Book
- Secrets of the Talis
- Secret Societies of the Sword Coast: Exposed
- Selûne's Devotee
- Selûnite Journal
- Selûnite Prayer Book
- Shanties for the Bitch Queen
- Sharess' Caress Finances
- Sharran Registry
- Sharran's Journal
- Shipment Ledger
- Simple Poison Recipe
- Skeletons in Patriar Closets
- Sod The Maimed God
- Songs for Sailors, Soldiers, and Sirens
- Soul Cage Research
- Soul Coins: A Treatise
- SOUPS OF THE REALMS BY BROTHER DONNICK
- Spattered Diary
- Speak your Loss
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Special Operation - Infernal Arms - Stained Book (Night Orchid Cave)
- Stained Book (Thorm Mausoleum)
- Stained Book (Waukeen's Rest)
- Stedd's Virtues of Unions
- Stock Display: A Primer, by Sana Aeran
- Stock Haul For Armoury
- Studies of the Elder Brains
- Study of the Sword Coast
- Submersible Maintenance
- Suelto's Ethics of War
- Superior Potion of Healing Recipe
- Supplication Scrapbook
- Supplications to Umberlee
- Surgeon's Memorandum
- Surgeon's Research Notes
- Surgery and Physiology: A Sharran's Primer
- Surveillance Notes
- Suspended Ceremorphosis
- Sword Coast Songbook
- Tales Of The Hells
- Talis
- Talis: Divination without Magic
- Talis Tactics - Ultimate Trick Book
- Tamia Domina
- Tarbell's Guide to Distractions
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Tattered Journal - Tattered Notes
- Teachings of Ilmater
- Teachings of Loss: Dark Justiciar
- Teachings of Loss: Endless Dark
- Teachings of Loss: Forgetting and Loss
- Teachings of Loss: Light's Love
- Teachings of Loss: Oblivion
- Teachings of Loss: Own Secret
- Teachings of Loss: The Nightsinger
- Tenants of the Broken God
- The Absolute End
- The Amiable Art of Necromancy
- The Annals of Baldur's Gate
- The Approachable East, Vol. 1
- The Approachable East, Vol. 2
- The Approachable East, Vol. 3
- The Approachable East, Vol. 4
- The Approachable East, Vol. 5
- The Approachable East, Vol. 6
- The Bhaalspawn Saga: Part II
- The Bibliophile Recommends
- The Big Book of Little Drinking Games
- The Blood War
- The Book of Cheesomancy
- The Book of Suitors
- The Butler's Cane Has A Knob On The End
- The Careful Art of Tir'su Ciphers
- The Collectanea Rubrum
- The Curse of the Vampyr
- 'The Demonic Crisis'
- The Devil You Know: An Autobiography
- The Diary of Lump the Enlightened
- The Dukes of Baldur's Gate
- The Easy Life
- The Egg-Duty Clan-Call
- The Elf Song
- The Evil Eye
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The Ecstasy of Murder - The Five Year War: A Diplomat's Record
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The Folly and the Fall - The Folly of Zerthimon
- The Forgotten Forest
- The Founding of Baldur's Gate
- The Gate's Pub Crawl Guide
- The Gauntlet of Shar
- The Genesis of Selûne and Shar
- The Glitter Gala - Glittering Baldur's Gate for over Twenty Years
- The Grand Design
- The Guild: Hidden Rulers of Baldur's Gate
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The Hag's Bane - The Harpers
- The Hells Unleashed
- The Hound and the Hand
- The House of Wonders
- The Hunter's Piercing Gaze
- The Illustrated Adventures of Balduran
- The Landed Families of Tethyr
- The Leadership of the Zhentarim
- The Legend of Ansur
- The Lord of Murder's Songbook
- The Lords of Madness, Vol 4: Yeenoghu
- 'The Lost Tomb of Khaem'
- The Many Faces of Gond
- The Many Tales of Mother Campestri
- The Mortal View: Eyewitness Accounts of the Bhaalspawn Crisis
- The Most Holy Sermons of Lashbearer Catrine
- The Mountain Is You
- The Needled Book
- The One that Got A Thay
- The Parables of Dawnmaster Vaseid
- 'The Pilgrimage to Gravenhollow'
- The Power of the Crown
- The Pronunciation of Common for Monstrous Species: A Guide for Pedagogues
- The Purged Palate, Midwinter Edition
- The Quarta Sune
- The Realm According to Bumpo
- The Roads to Darkness
- The Rumour of Reithwin
- The Screed of the Willing
- The Sea Queen's Wrath
- The Shattered Seldarine
- The Soul Forger
- The Stone Lord: A New Threat
- The Suffering Masses
- The Superior Durability of Hardwood
- The Surprising Habits of Kara-Turian Warlords
- The Triad for Children
- The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 1
- The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 2
- The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 3
- The True and Impossible Adventures of Tenebrux Morrow, Vol. 4
- The Ultimate State
- The Unclaimed
- 'The Velkynvelve Pursuit'
- The Waning Moon: Consignments
- The War between Selûne and Shar
- The Warrior of Love
- The Watch and the Steel Watch
- The Way of the Wanderer
- The Well-Tended Garden
- The Wonders of Phandalin
- The Would-Be Saint
- Therapeutics
- Threadbare Book
- Tollhouse Ledger (Reithwin)
- Tollhouse Ledger (Risen Road)
- Tombstone Shop Notes
- Tome of the Faith-leap Trial
- Tome of the Self-Same Trial
- Tome of the Soft-Step Trial
- Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. IV: The Risen Road
- Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. VIII: The Outer City
- Traveller's Guide to the Sword Coast Vol. IX: Inns and Guesthouses
- Treatise on the Antimagic Properties of Sussur Tree Flowers
- Tymora, Lady Luck
- Tym's Notebook
- Unpublished Portents
- U.R.: For the Absolute's Glory
- Unsent Sending
- Urban Exploration - The Undercity!
- Valarken's Failed Coup
- Vault Pass Ledger
- Veronica Hamperclips and her Adventures Beyond The Washbasin
- Veterinary Log
- Violet's Diary
- Volo's Complete Guide to the Behaviour of Nymphs
- Volo's Guide to Baldur's Gate
- Volo's Guide to Spirits and Spectres
- Wall of the Faithless
- Warden's Workbook
- Wealth Offering to Bhaal
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Web-Covered Journal - What Abides Below
- When Love Fumbles
- Winery Records
- Writin Exorcises
- Writings of a Wroot
- Ye Follye of Karsus
- Yearning for the Moon
- Yoshimo is Willing
- You've Got Friends in the Guild
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