> [!infobox|wikipedia] > # Gilded Grimoire > [![[Gilded_Grimoire_small.webp|cover hsmall]]](Gilded_Grimoire.webp) > ###### Location Information > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Type | Point of Interest | > Location | [[Camaar]] | > Defining Feature | Camaar's arcane bookshop and magical consultation service | > ###### Status > Attribute | Details | > ---|---| > Status | Active | The Gilded Grimoire is an arcane bookshop and consultation service in [[Camaar]], specialising in magical texts, scrolls, and paraphernalia. It keeps a stock of genuine arcane wares that is impressive for a city of Camaar's rough, salt-stained character, and is best known among local adventurers as the place to have unidentified loot named and appraised. The shop is run by [[Elara]], a studious human mage whose expertise is as reliable as her attention is wandering. ## Location & Geography The Gilded Grimoire sits in New Camaar, the city's commercial district — the newer, better-lit sprawl of stone south of [[Camaar|Old Camaar]], where most of the port's shops and services have collected. It stands among the everyday trade of the quarter, a chandler's and a smithy and a baker's for neighbours, its shelves crowded with leather-bound tomes, rolled scrolls, and the assorted glassware and reagents of a working mage. Within, the order is academic rather than mercantile: a place arranged for study and consultation as much as for sale. ## The Shop Where most of New Camaar trades in the practical needs of sailors and tradespeople, the Gilded Grimoire deals in the arcane. Its stock runs to spell scrolls, magical curiosities, and the occasional enchanted item, but its real value to visiting adventurers lies in [[Elara|Elara's]] services: she identifies magical items, offers consultations on the arcane, and will craft to commission. She has earned a reputation for fair dealing — and, for those who can negotiate well, a willingness to discount in bulk. Her appraisals are trusted, though not infallible; some magic runs deeper than even she can name. ## [[The Bloody Nails|Campaign: The Bloody Nails]] #### [[Session 10 - The Coastal Cave]] While resupplying in Camaar, the party brought their accumulated loot to the Gilded Grimoire for identification. [[Elara]] named a *Dagger of Warning*, a *Rope of Climbing*, *Dust of Disappearance*, and a collection of potions — but a strange white gemstone recovered from a goblin cave defied her, feeling only "deep and ancient" and unlike any standard magic she had encountered. #### [[Session 17 - A New Journey Begins]] On a final resupply run before departing for [[Val Miriel]], the party found Elara floating against the ceiling, mid-thought, by way of a *Fly* spell — a situation she declined to remark upon. After some deft negotiation by [[Vaeleran]], she extended a roughly 25% bulk discount on the party's purchases, which included a *Bag of Holding*, a *Cloak of Elvenkind*, and a *Decanter of Endless Water*.