Tomes from Lil

The book titled "On Artifice" is largely on the first half.  She goes into great details describing her education and first inventions.  The Electrowhips, night vision goggles, innovations in breakfast making technology, all the way up to the creation of the world's first Electrical Vehicle, an airship she named "The Pancake."  She goes into detail beyond that about her continued studies, coming to terms with her brother's death, eventually adopting his bastard son he'd had with a Wilding girl from the Veilbeak Tribe after she died of illness, and establishing an academy in the isles.

Though the part you probably found most interesting -were- her notes on Alchemy.  "I can't go into terrible detail on the actual practice of forging equipment in such a manner, but I can say it can do some pretty shocking things.  The rumored Master Ball floating around was the result of something one of my colleagues, my co-author of my tome on these isles, Robert Bokor, had created on a whim.  That among other odd contraptions and devices.  There's a bit of mystery in the results, and as I am not a telekinetic I cannot describe that to you.  I can talk on the actual practice's structure though."

"This art came from The Empire after years of attempting to transmute lead to gold.  The military saw some use in it, and started rounding up Telekinetic to indoctrinate them into this program of theirs.  Mind you this was an era in humanity where Psychics were much more rare, and in Europe often saw as witches.  So this was a pretty huge and progressive move.  The practice -exploded- though when the Explorers's Guild came to the isle and realized just how many pscionics, mystics and aura readers were within the collection of natives here.

"There's a misconception you just toss a bunch of stuff in a cauldron and stir it around and pull out a Candy Hammer.  I'm not saying that never happened nor confirming it did (Shut up old man), but there's a bit more structure to it than that.  Basically you need three key components for this to work.

"The first we'll call "The Base."  This is your cast iron skillet in this breakfast recipe.  And while I think a magical cast iron skillet would be rad what I mean by this is it's more the object you are enchanting.  A sword, armor, cape, boots, your sexy battle panties.  What have you.  Second off you need "The Catalyst."  This is your oil, heat, butter.  It's a volatile substance that when the right pressures are applied to, causes something to happen.  This can be a -lot- of things, and it's not always clear what can work for this.  The third and final I like to call "The Bacon."  It's extra, fluff, not really required but adds some flavor and you don't really see a reason why not to include it.

"If you want to know more about how to do this though, I'm not your Breakfastermancer for that one.  Anyway, onto why Garchomps are awesome..."

The second book is titled "Odyssey of the Eastern Isles."  It's a rather large tome and documents the adventures of Tsvai and the lives of her allies, members of Explorer Guild Team #47, Light Company.  The beginning of it is rather lengthy and a bit biographical about how each of them came to the team, and when Tsvai joined them and from there on.  It documents the battle against a god she initially refers to as Urmaresheron: The Architect and Spiritomb but notes "Robert's Gengar had a very affectionate name for him that we all found most effective to describe his motivations and disposition, so from here on I shall refer to him by it. Urmabutt."

From here on it's a rather pulpy story about how they ended up in a war against Dittos hellbent on slaying all of humanity, how they infiltrated the Guild and crashed a military grade Steam Powered Battle Ship into Ivyhollow, demolishing the town and the guild's structure.  How one of their compatriots was one of these Ditto bodysnatchers and his struggle between what he had been raised to do and what he really wanted out of life.  How they came across two Giratinas who she comments eventually became a singular being, and assisted them in this battle.  The Celebis under the command of The Deciever, and how this was entirely all The Everhungry's god damn fault.

A lot of this information about these Outer Gods is something you all already know.  It's not until after she's done with her story, how they slew Urmabutt, witnessed one of their Pokémon ascend to godhood and create New Ivyhollow, taking on the name The Voidmind.  After that she documents a lot of information about the various tribes and their cultures and customs, mostly mundane stuff you all know.  What's interesting is "On Religion."

"While it's evident in the culture of the Wildlings that they worshipped these Outer Gods, I've found nothing to suggest they worshipped your mundane Legendaries outside of Arceus.  Until after The Great Conflict.  Then they started popping up and making ties with the natives.  I cannot theorize why this occurred as there was no prior reason to believe they existed here, but Robert was kind enough to fill me in on some details from his discussions with the creature he made a pact with, now known as Met Kalfu or Papa Legba, depending on how he feels about you that day.

"It seems Arceus witnessed what occurred here, and realized this region needed other guardians to ensure something like this didn't happen again.  And hence, he created them.  The unforeseen consequence is we've seen a huge spike in what we once called 'Corrupted Pokémon.'  These beings were red with rage, empowered, and very deadly.  The natives and we as well for a long time believed this was due to some curse some grumpy shaman inflicted on the land to drive the white man out, but we eventually learned in our quest that this was actually a blessing upon them by Urmabutt.  It seems these Gods are making their own champions left and right now.  Less dickbutt evil but still lethal if you get on their bad side.  Also they are much easier to turn away from these influences than the originals were.  Back in the day we needed some weird ass red crystals I can't quite recall the name of but (Alieen's taken quite a liking to them though as they have some pretty nifty fiery after affects) to undo it, now all you really gotta do is catch one and they'll get off their rocker after a bit.  We've come to an agreement to label them as 'Fiends.'

"Back on the Outer Gods though, I'd like to repeat the point of my mention of our journey across a world that was based on our own but wasn't quite right.  It was a realm created by Urmabutt that he wanted to merge with our own.  I suspect there are many realms like this, and each of these beings might be capable of creating them.  I have little ways to prove or study this theory, however, and pray that one day in the future someone will unravel that answer.