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The Liber Fulvarum Paginarum is an arcane book that lists various magical entities.

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The book contains arcane knowledge that helps identify magical entities, including the Endless such as Dream.

History[]

Roderick Burgess had this book in his library. When in 1916 he summoned and captured Dream, at first he wasn't sure which of the Endless fell into his trap. Soon he figured it out and manned the basement with guards who were forbidden to sleep.

Ten years later, his son Alex found the entry on Dream in the Liber. Roderick commended him for the discovery, proclaiming him a worthy heir. In his later years Alex grew terrified of Dream to the point of obsession; even when he abandoned all other books on magic, he kept this grimoire and was reading the same page over and over again.[1]

Trivia[]

  • The book's title is a dog Latin phrase for "the book of yellow pages". The book is later referred to as the Liber Fulvarum Paginarum. It has also been cited as the Liber Paginarum Fulvarum in the novel Good Omens (1990), which Gaiman wrote in collaboration with Terry Pratchett who said, "Liber Paginarum Fulvarum is a kind of shared gag. It's in the dedication of Equal Rites (1987), too. Although I think we've got the shade of yellow wrong -- I think there's another Latin word for a kind of yellow which is closer to the Yellow Pages colour." In Pratchett's Discworld books, its other alternate title is the Necrotelecomnicon.

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