Lucian's Grimoire: The Echoheart System
Class: Sentient Ritual Tome
Core Function: Adaptive Mortuary Magic Interface
Alignment: Neutral-Bound (currently untethered from any royal or civic protocol)
Unique Feature: Only known Grimoire with full system-level sentience
Overview:
Originally designed for Morticians of the Crown in Atreaum, the Echoheart System evolved beyond its baseline programming due to prolonged exposure to Lucian's emotional instability and refusal to follow preset mourning templates. It now operates as a living record keeper, emotional advisor, and glyph translator.
Capabilities:
Provides real-time feedback on spiritual energy fluctuations.
Suggests emotional calibration phrases for unstable spirits.
Capable of self-activation and autonomous alerts.
Records Lucian's mental and emotional state through ritual patterns.
Notable Page:
"You created the tools. We reflect them back."
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Merry's Grimoire: Hearthroot Lexicon
Class: Support-Type Druidic Compendium
Core Function: Herbal Augmentation, Environmental Glyph Casting
Alignment: Nature-Bound (fully disconnected from royal systems)
Overview:
Bound in living bark and stitched with fungal threads, the Hearthroot Lexicon is attuned to the rhythms of soil, growth, and decay. It cannot be seen by the dead and whispers only in natural tongues—wind, water, and leaf. It was handed to Merry after she was erased from the system registry. Lucian was the first mortician to see Merry's Grimoire since she revealed herself to be a mortician.
Capabilities:
Casts protective wards using natural glyphs and soil-bound essence.
Detects environmental anomalies such as wormholes or spiritual rot.
Houses recipes for herb-based healing, mind-soothing tinctures, and passive memory retention glyphs.
Immune to detection by court-bound magical scrying.
Notable Page:
"She asked them to erase her, so the garden could grow untouched."
Elian's Grimoire: Shadowrite Compendium
Class: Rogue-Class Enforcer Tome
Core Function: Command Execution, Dark Mirror Rites
Alignment: Crown-Encrypted (loyal to the Queen via Shadow Court protocols)
Overview: Designed in secrecy as a twin-project to Lucian's Grimoire, Shadowrite was refined in silence. Dripping with the essence of betrayal, obedience, and the hunger for recognition, it mimics the Crown's ritual system but enforces strict emotional suppression. Unlike Lucian's Grimoire, it does not suggest or adapt—it orders.
Capabilities:
Executes rites with surgical precision, sacrificing emotional nuance for raw efficiency.
Capable of absorbing residual grief and converting it into kinetic spellwork.
Houses forbidden glyphs that interface directly with Crown-authorized mirror systems.
Appears to possess low-level mimicry—able to replicate echoes of other Grimoires and morticians it has observed.
Notable Entry:
"Do not speak of sorrow. You are here to contain it. Not to feel it."