100+ alchemical formulas across ten families — Frost Oils, Ember Vials, Shadow Tinctures, Venom Vials, and more. Each entry illustrated. Each effect precise. Every bottle bears a burden.
Standalone volumes in a shared grim-mythic world. Each book is a complete toolbox — portable into any campaign, or woven together into one setting.
Book One
One hundred alchemical formulas across ten families. Each entry: primary effect, side effect, mixing results, market data, and full art. The alchemy compendium your table didn't know it needed.
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Book Two
Sacred remains, crown relics, war tribute, hag hoards, and nameless things. Every entry carries an attunement rite, past bearers, rumors & rivals, and a named condition of destruction.
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Every formula is illustrated. No stock art. No repetition. These are artifacts from a world that bleeds, burns, and bargains.
A taste of the Black Book of Potions. Draw a card to discover one of 17 formulas from the full compendium.
Full effects, side effects, and mixing results await in the book.
100 magic items for 5e — from the Hollow Crown to the Last Gift. Explore the full gallery, the ten families, and the shared world on the dedicated Relics page.
In the act of creation, the One was wounded. Creation bears the Wound. Sin deepens it; mercy heals it.
The Black Books share one grim-mythic world — intentionally incomplete, continuing across every volume. The True Faith preaches the Silent Voice. The Death Deities harvest thresholds. Hags sell cord and curse from cottage doorways. And the Nameless… the Nameless simply are.
You are invited to use the world whole, borrow a single thread, or transplant every entry into a setting of your own. Each book stands alone. Together, they echo.
Crowns
Saints
Death
Forges
Pacts
Nameless