lorebook

plural lorebooks

1. A book of lore.

   The lad has a good imagination. He’ll be writing his own lorebooks soon enough.

   1978 March, Niel Hancock, Dragon Winter, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, page 36

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   In Barinthus’s seemingly inexhaustible lorebooks and data crystals were detailed maps of planets where, though no folk dwelled, beasts and plants were plentiful.

   1998 November, Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, The Deer’s Cry (The Keltiad), New York, N.Y.: HarperPrism, →ISBN, page 238

   Who remembers the foot soldiers who molder where they fall? It is the wizards, their spells, their legacy—these are the tales that fill the lorebooks.

   2001 April, Elaine Cunningham, The Floodgate (Counselors and Kings; II), Renton, Wash.: Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN, page 135