--- deliantra/server/pod/books.pod	2007/03/07 19:01:54	1.15
+++ deliantra/server/pod/books.pod	2007/07/10 05:51:38	1.18
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@
 survived, and because nobody knows where the Boy went afterwards, those
 gates are still closed. I’ve heard that the School of Daemonology was
 precisely founded to rediscover that spell. But who am I to claim this to
-be true ? I’m only a man of the past that tells stories before a fire,
+be true? I’m only a man of the past that tells stories before a fire,
 and the fire is dying, and so has my tale reached the end.
 
 
@@ -567,10 +567,10 @@
 
 =head1 History of Lake Country
 
-Lake Country originally was where the elves who where exiled from the north
-by the kings of Scorn, during the Vth millenia EK. They named the area
-Vkovzerov. The major elven city of Vkovzerov was Tashkeren-tah. It was
-destroyed by a Water arch-elemental in 4453EK.
+Lake Country originally was where the elves lived who where exiled
+from the north by the kings of Scorn, during the Vth millenia EK. They
+named the area Vkovzerov. The major elven city of Vkovzerov was
+Tashkeren-tah. It was destroyed by a Water arch-elemental in 4453EK.
 
 
 =head1 Visit our Training Centres!
@@ -1282,23 +1282,17 @@
 
 It is said that of the four primary elements
 
-- there is earth which is.
-
-- there is water which changes.
-
-- there is air which moves.
-
-- there is fire which consumes.
+   - there is earth which is.
+   - there is water which changes.
+   - there is air which moves.
+   - there is fire which consumes.
 
 =head2 Overheard in a Narcopian brothel
 
-When Mother Earth was suckling her children
-
-sky suckled from her right teat
-
-but flame and sea fought to suckle from her left teat
-
-this is why they still fight to this day
+   When Mother Earth was suckling her children
+   sky suckled from her right teat
+   but flame and sea fought to suckle from her left teat
+   this is why they still fight to this day
  
 
 =head1 The Tale of Lord Butakis - The Lost Stars of the Lake, Volume I
@@ -1864,31 +1858,31 @@
 He also wrote a book that details all the ways and passages, alas, nobody
 could decipher it yet:
 
-gb2trg2gb2gur2rkvg:
-2jnaqre2nebhaq2hagvy2lbh2ybpngr2n2znc2aN,
-2vg2vf2ba2gur2obggbz2ragenapr2bs2n2znc.
-2bapr2gung2vf2ybpngrq2tb2evtug,
-2hc,
-2evtug,
-2evtug,
-2evtug,
-2evtug,
-2evtug,
-2lbh2jvyy2or2ng2gur2rkvg.
-2gb2trg2gb2gur2inhyg:
-2jnaqre2ebhaq2hagvy2lbh2trg2gb2znc2aN1,
-vg2vf2gb2gur2evtug2bs2n2abezny2znc.
-2tb2hc,
-2yrsg,
-2hc,
-2yrsg,
-2qbja,
-2qbja,
-2evtug,
-2qbja,
-2qbja,
-2qbja.2Lbh2jvyy2or2va2gur2unyy,
-2tb2guebhtu2naq2gb2gur2yrsg2gb2ernpu2gur2inhyg.
+   gb2trg2gb2gur2rkvg:
+   2jnaqre2nebhaq2hagvy2lbh2ybpngr2n2znc2aN,
+   2vg2vf2ba2gur2obggbz2ragenapr2bs2n2znc.
+   2bapr2gung2vf2ybpngrq2tb2evtug,
+   2hc,
+   2evtug,
+   2evtug,
+   2evtug,
+   2evtug,
+   2evtug,
+   2lbh2jvyy2or2ng2gur2rkvg.
+   2gb2trg2gb2gur2inhyg:
+   2jnaqre2ebhaq2hagvy2lbh2trg2gb2znc2aN1,
+   vg2vf2gb2gur2evtug2bs2n2abezny2znc.
+   2tb2hc,
+   2yrsg,
+   2hc,
+   2yrsg,
+   2qbja,
+   2qbja,
+   2evtug,
+   2qbja,
+   2qbja,
+   2qbja.2Lbh2jvyy2or2va2gur2unyy,
+   2tb2guebhtu2naq2gb2gur2yrsg2gb2ernpu2gur2inhyg.
 
  
 =head1 Order of the Gravestone
@@ -1927,3 +1921,39 @@
 is so easy to come back), and why would only the churches in Scorn have
 access to those in the first place?
 
+
+=head1 Barad-Dur
+
+In the mountains north-east of the great city we found it at last -- the
+hidden fortress of Barad-Dur. What treasures could lie in it I do not know
+for our party never gained its way past the entryway. Skulls, pixies, and
+a horrible creature I hesitate to name decimated my friends and I.
+
+
+=head1 A visit to the Alchemist
+
+...and then did the Alchemist agree to make me my potion. First he
+called to his grimm servants who hauld forth a great iron cauldron. Into
+this black device did he deposit his ingredients and, opening his spell
+book for reference, then did he cast his spell of alchemy therepon the
+cauldron.
+
+Greatly did the tub shake and move! I thought that the Alchemist had broke
+his device, but he chuckled at my ignorance. Into the cauldron did he
+reach an brought forth a filled bottle of golden amber fluid...
+ 
+
+=head1 The Philosophical Ingredients
+
+Know that there are 4 principle philosophical ingredients. In order, they
+are:
+
+   - philosophical salt
+   - philosophical sulphur
+   - philosophical phosphorus
+   - philosophical oil
+
+The great alchemist has often said that all living things are made of
+these ingredients. Proper combination of these with other base objects can
+often create potions of power and might.
+