The So-Called Giant Centipedes, or My Only Comfort in Exile | |
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Description | |
Inventory/slot |
Books |
Category |
Common item |
Type |
Book |
Expansion |
Blood and Wine |
Source |
Loot / Purchase |
Base price |
10 |
Price to buy |
24 |
Price to sell |
2 – 3 |
Weight |
0 |
Reading this book adds bestiary entries for Giant centipedes. It can be purchased from the Ducal camerlengo.
Other copies of this book can be found in the following locations:
- Inside Professor Moreau's laboratory. Another copy in a chest in a bandit camp north of the Termes Palace Ruins.
- One of the houses around the wine festival marketplace, east-northeast of The Pheasantry in Hauteville.
- One of two houses north-northeast of the Herb Store in Hauteville.
- In house around Lolivier Square.
- In a house in San Sebastian.
- On the body of a woman in the Albertus Grotto.
Journal entry
- (…) Dearly have I paid for my wrongs. Being exiled from the beautiful deserts and steppes of Ofier to this hideous green country, where all the scents and flavors are so intense they make me sick, fills my heart with sorrow and regret.
- My only comfort seems to be a small colony of scolopendros (or, more scientifically speaking – scolopendromorphs), here referred to as giant centipedes, living in the vicinity of my hut. These wonderful creatures, the sight of which reminds me of home, have most likely chosen this area to settle in because of the presence of shaelmaars, whose droppings constitute the food of smaller animals, which, in turn, are consumed by scolopendros. Sometimes I sneak up on them when they are feeding and admire their hooked limbs, mandibles so sturdy they seem made of iron, and chitinous thoraces shiny enough to let one to gaze upon one's reflection…