In a warm, dark corner of the Library, dusty shelves sit filled with books piled at odd angles. Some are tomes richly bound in wood, leather, and bone--the epics of famous bards and poets. Others are folios faded and tattered and hastily wrapped in hide--the scribbled stories of backwater folk, collected by literate travelers. Though often dismissed as frivolous by the serious scholars of history and nature, these volumes contain many latent and subtle truths others miss.