lorebook

English

Etymology

From lore +‎ book.

Noun

lorebook (plural lorebooks)

1. A book of lore.
   • 1978 March, Niel Hancock, Dragon Winter, New York, N.Y.: Popular Library, page 36:

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

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

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

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

     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.