Quickplay guide for getting librarian specific endings

"Resolution and a plan are better than a sword, because a man whets his own edges on them." - Gene Wolfe

For those of you who choose the path of suffering, I will create a guide to condense all the info you need into one easy place to quickly get through and achieve a librarian-specific ending. For those who want maximum suffering, cease reading here. Before starting, I suggesting having one save where you have just a fully unlocked library for other achievements to hunt before starting this.

WARNING; EXTREMELY SPOILER HEAVY

Step 1; Librarian Selection

The first step is obviously starting the game and picking a librarian. These are the soul combinations to get the various librarians.

_	Chor	Fet	Shapt
Ereb	The Artist	The Artist	The Artist
Mettle	The Executioner	The Revolutionary	The Archaeologist
Wist	The Symurgist	The Magnate	The Archaeologist
Phost	The Prodigal	The Cartographer	The Twice-Born

Step 2; Picking and Obtaining a Numen

This is going to be the most time consuming step, but knowing what to work towards helps with planning. While each librarian has two Numen they can work with, you only need to get one to achieve a librarian specific ending, which will save some time. Keep both books in mind and work towards each, as the language will be the biggest barrier to unlocking them. Once you have the language, you should be set by this point.

This table is ordered by how soon the book can be obtained, relatively speaking.

Numen	Book Location	Usable By	Obtained with	Language	Aspects
The Sun's Weakness	Chancel of the Abbey Church	Executioner	Sickle & Eclipse, Sacra Limiae	Cracktrack	Grail, Lantern, Moth
Three Rules	Librarian's Quarters	Revolutionary	Inscribed stone+Edicts Inviolable or Edicts Liminal	None	Heart, Moth, Scale
Loopholes	Our Lady Beneath	Twice-Born	Hill & Hollow, Tridesma Hiera	Cracktrack	Knock, Moon, Moth
A Final Understanding	Rowenarium	Magnate	Hush House Key	Ericapean	Rose, Sky, Winter
The Great Counterfeit	Silver Vault	Twice-Born	N/A	Deep Mandaic	Lantern, Moon, Nectar
That Old Lost Music	Silver Vault	Symurgist, Magnate	N/A	Ramsund	Sky, Rose, Scale
Back Into Balance	Ivory Vault	Executioner, Revolutionary	N/A	Sabazine	Heart, Sky, Winter
Weaving the World	Ivory Vault	Symurgist, Cartographer	N/A	Killasimi	Heart, Moon, Nectar
The Bells of Ys	Iron Vault	Prodigal, Revolutionary	N/A	Fu cine	Edge, Forge, Rose
Merciless Alteration	Iron Vualt	Artist, Archaeologist	N/A	Hyksos	Edge, Forge, Grail
Inescapable Confinement	Crucible Tower: Govenor's Quarters	Prodigal, Archaeologist	N/A	Ericapaean	Knock, Scale, Winter
The Paths of the Sun	Oubliette	Cartographer, Twice-Born	Disciplines of the Hammer/Scar	Cracktrack	Forge, Knock, Lantern
An Irresistible Feast	Shrine to St. Tentreto	Artist	Ink+paper (skills not needed?)	Vak	Edge, Grail, Nectar

Step 3; Setting up your ending

Doing the basic math to achieve an ending; you need 25 of the aspect, and you can write in two determinations that give you a maximum of 2 bonus points in that aspect. So the minimum needed is 23. With 5 from the Numen and 7 from the Ink, that leaves a gap of 11 that needs filled by soul and skill.

Making a determination is much easier than making the full history, and an easy way to get closer to the 25 power you need. Here is a run down of what determination to make to boost a specific aspect.

To get	use 20 of
Edge	Edge, Winter
Forge	Forge, Sky
Grail	Grail, Edge
Heart	Heart, Scale
Knock	Knock, Heart
Lantern	Lantern, Moth
Moon	Moon, Nectar
Moth	Moth, Lantern
Nectar	Nectar, Grail
Rose	Rose, Forge
Scale	Scale, Moon
Sky	Sky, Rose
Winter	Winter, Knock

You will also need to get your hands on the required Ink for your ending, possibly writing determinations, and one for creating a petition for numa. You may be able to get a useful shortcut here if a skill used for crafting the ink is useful for getting your ending as well.

Porphyrine (rose, knock, and moon)- Ichor Auroral needed, can be crafted with

• Auroral Contemplations [Lantern]
  
• Inks of Revelation [Rose]
  
• Inks of Power [Rose]
  
• Pearl and Tide [Rose]
  
• Sand Stories [Rose]

Marakat (grail, knock, and nectar) - Leathy needed, can be crafted with

• Insects & Nectars [Nectar]
  
• Inks of Power [Nectar]
  
• Tridesma Hiera [Nectar]

Nillycant (scale, winter, and edge) - Solomon's Preparation needed, can be crafted with

• Inks of Containment [Winter]
  
• Sights & Sensations [Winter]
  
• Ragged Crossroads [Winter]

Orpiment Exultant (heart, sky, and forge) - Iotic Essence needed, can be crafted with

• Transformations & Liberations [Forge]
  
• Inks of Power [Forge]
  
• Anbary & Lapidary [Forge]

Uzult (lantern, moth, sky) - Xanthotic Essence needed, can be crafted with

• Inks of Revelation [Lantern]
  
• Sacra Solis Invicti [Lantern]
  
• Watchman's Paradoxes [Lantern]
  
• Glaziery & Lightsmithing [Lantern]
  
• Anbary & Lapidary [Lantern]

Step 4; Soul and Skill

So with 2 points from determinations, 5 from the numen, 7 from the ink, you still require 11 points to reach the required 25. You will need to level up an appropriate soul card and skill to get to that amount.

Consider this when planning your route; Heart, Knock, Rose, Grail, Moth, Forge, Lantern, and Winter are easier to obtain. Conversely, Moon, Edge, Nectar, and Sky are harder. Scale is the hardest. This is because each soul card has a major and minor aspect. Mettle, for example, will always have 1 more Forge than Edge, and thus require another level in either it or an edge skill to reach a value of 11. At the maximum level of the corresponding soul card, you can have a maximum....

of 5 - Heart, Knock, Rose, Grail, Moth, Forge, Lantern, Winter
of 4 - Moon, Edge, Nectar, Sky
of 3 - Scale

There is a useful soul evolution tool[docs.google.com] someone created, which will help you level up things quickly.

Then it comes down to picking a relevant skill to focus on leveling up. I suggest choosing either one related to crafting the ink or ink supplies, or one that has your selected aspect as its major power. Leveling up a skill further means you require a lower level soul card, and vice versa. Higher skills would also allow you to bypass the need for determinations.

Minimum value needed of 6 - Heart, Knock, Rose, Grail, Moth, Forge, Lantern, Winter
Minimum value needed of 7 - Moon, Edge, Nectar, Sky
Minimum value needed of 8 - Scale

With that, the final obstacle is obtaining more of the appropriate soul cards. This is a more complex thing than I can format here, so I will simply link[book-of-hours.fandom.com] to the wiki and its list of skills. That will tell you which skills can be slotted where to recieve what soul card.

Conclusion

With that, you now have a plan laid out; your librarian, the numen of use, and what you will need to write a history. Getting to that point will still take a while, but you know exactly what you need to do to get there. Feedback for additional steps or clarification would be appreciated. Happy reading, Librarians.

[rodrigoenciclopedia]

There are four determinations: origin, flower, hour and speech.
If you already wrote one determination, like lantern glorious origin, and write sky no where origin you replace the origin bonus.

[Deaddropping]

Just Runika, you can write four I believe but you can only get a bonus to any specific principle from two of them. So the other two are not useful, which strikes me as a bit odd.

[Just Runika]

I don't know if this was added in an update, but I have managed to write in three determinations:
1 for origin, 1 for color of flower, 1 for who is the eldest Hour.