[quote=@DepressedSoviet]
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Basically, over his career he'd have published creature encyclopedias a la D&D's Monster Manual Books, detailing the creature, things it can do, identifying traits, known habitats and times of activity, that sort of thing. It's pretty likely that they'd have many, if not all, of these tomes. I'll leave the exact number up to you.
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I actually like this concept. Excusing crappy backstory, your character is a nice expy of van Richten, my favorite character of my favorite D&D setting, which Ravenloft, obviously. That's why I think both of our characters would hang out very well together.