Sagas and Epics of Now and Before
+1 big oilskin bound tome that has been carefully decorated with painted illustrations on the covers showing old-fashioned drawings of monsters and mythical heroes and epics. Unsanctioned material – obvious at a glance. Sagas and epics of now and before. In Orcish. Old myths. Painted illustrations are Termagan related. At one point a depiction of a Panoptican spider beast. Not just orcish myths. An orcish story teller writing for an orcish audience but recording myths that they’ve encountered from other cultures. Goblin stories. Some stuff in there that Connie recognises as not-wholly accurately transcribed Schubert Chokecherry vs Bog Cranberry. Not a magic book of any kind but it does contain a lot of otherwise largely forgotten bits of lore and stories and stuff. Could give a +2 bonus on all perform auritory and perform sing checks. +2 circumstance bonus on knowledge for heroics tales and lineages and stuff. Half-forgotten weird goblin folktales in here. Goblins with guns and uniforms. Painting of “the brass” in orcish.
Orcish storytellers often use odd poetic terms for things. Like with norse sagas and classical mythology, there is a recognised cannon of poetic ways to say mundane things. It is a words that can be translated as brass, the metal. A poetic way of saying it that translates literally as button metal. The military aspect is preserved in the orcish. The word for button metal is Zurun-maedin. Zurun button. Maedin metal.
More commonly, the way to say brass would be Nahash.
Also contains the Goblinoid folksong, The Engine of Cause.