d100 Documents of Despair for Chagrinspire

Languages
Typically I have
Common Spoken/Written (the modern international trade tongue)
Ancient Spoken/Written (on lots of the continent's ruins used by Allies)
Underland Common Spoken/Written (remnant of the common speech of age of darkness) 

Arcane Written Spoken/Written (the language of wizardry, varies wildly spoken)

Alchemical Spoken/Written (the written language of alchemists and the Black Sphere)

Elvish, Trollish, Dwarfish, Orcish, Gnomeish, Halflingish, Ogreish, Goblinish all common

The popular printed works here are in a late form of ancient and is somewhat recognisable to modern people through sounds odd. 

d10 Quick Documents of Despair Types
1 Propaganda
2 Reports
3 Pamphlets

4 Letters
5 Novels

6 News

7 Juvinalia

8 Manuals

9 Philosophy

10 Occult

d100 Documents of Despair 
01 Poster of an ancient General and text supporting a forgotten faction

02 Poster supporting unity for all peoples vs the null sphere forces

03 Poster of Chagrinspire with black tentacles reaching over the known world turning everyone into skeletons

04 Poster warning of Black Sphere spies lurking everywhere "Sinister eyes are always watching - careful what you say"

05 Poster warning not to use cursed enemy items and to turn them all in for recycling - "hoarding magic hurts everyone and warps your soul to the enemy thralldom"

06 Poster - surrender to the inevitable, bring forth the age on Null usually with a black circle in a triangle

07 Poster showing allied forces together in the trenches including orcs, elves, dwarves, humans, lizard folk and others fighting the black-helmed knights of Null standing around the mountain Chagrinspire

08 Stencils of a black circle or the circle in a triangle 

09 Stencils of the Allies A symbol in a circle or star or shield, common everywhere

10 Playing Cards and postcards of the ancient factions fighting against the Null Sphere overlords, each has a picture of a typical soldier smiling with thumbs up (if they have thumbs) and the A in a circle or a star symbol for the allies united
11 Form detailing ancient records of enemy artillery, some include pinups to make soldiers lodge them to get new posters. The posters are usually kept and cut from the booklet and found in trenches

12 Description of some strange enemies someone encountered in a journal with a bullet stuck in it 

13 Sappers reports of geology in area showing where tunnels were being dug and subterranean structures to avoid

14 Sappers report of a huge stockpile of unstable explosives under a hill with detailed pictures of the hill still recognisable

15 Trench map and request for equipment and supplies

16 Death toll for a 3 month period with d4x 1000 killed and injured

17 Weather reports noting strange new unatural weather and effects on magic

18 Remote viewing report of enemy trenches sketched by a psychic

19 Report on a dangerous new enemy vehichle to look out for and suggestions to stop it

20 Medical reports of zombie plague in trenches and which outposts had medical supplies

21 Pamphlet warning the Black Sphere cult plan to destroy the universe and all history

22 Brochure about how you cannot defeat the black sphere so help end everyone's suffering and allow the great nullification of all pain begin and stop being cattle for the rich who torment you, often fired from shells or air dropped in trenches.

23 Pamphlet offering eternal peace and an end to violence through the nullifying power of the Black Shere and how it needs your help to succeed vs the tyranny of existance

24 Pamphlet warning you about strange diseases you get from enemy combatants or friendly allies and spies so be careful of trench romances which are traps of the enemy to cripple you

25 Pamphlet promising land and treasure when soldiers return home and war is won, showing rural scenes and attractive youths

26 Brochure about how to get along with a species or people of the allies against the Black Sphere. Many versions exist but orcs, goblinoids, humans, elves and dwarves are the most common. Designed to stop troops fighting allies which the Black Sphere exploit

27 Pamphlet warning about mutations and how to report to your commanders, possible you might end up in a mutant legion or helping scientists in black labs

28 Pamphlet about a person finding their lover is a witch of the Black Shere on a mission to ruin morale and steal secrets. Lists the warning sights for witches and dopplegangers you can report

29 Brochure on how to cook with ration packs and how to order condiments and spices

30 Pamphlet claiming allies overlords are at home living in luxury and molesting your loved ones who live in poverty, only by helping activate the Null Sphere can we end the rich and make everyone equal and at peace forever
31 Letter to loved one asking about the farm and children

32 Letter from home from a lover declaring the affair over

33 Letter to home with a sad war poem about madness

34 Letter about health of a horse with a secret ancient code giving the location of a bunker

35 Letter from family who have survived a plague and now refugees

36 Letter from parents declaring love for child soldier

37 Letter to leader complaining about allied troop's behavure

38 Letter home with soldiers dreams of family and house

39 Letter with a tinned cake or biscuits or sweets

40 Letter to a priest talking about all the people they killed

41 The Fountain of Liberty - story of a soldier from poor background who rose the ranks and freed prisoners of war from a Black Sphere slaughterhouse and factory, inspired by a mostly true stoory

42 Life at War - a patriotic soldiers stories of comraderie with allies, popular and printed in many languages with cultural changes

43 Blood at Blackpit - story or a five year millitary campaign against more advanced technology which eventually won with vast sacrifices of allies lives

44 Allies against Evil - novelisation of how all the sides came together and the rulers who started the global crusade against the Black Sphere. Makes the diplomats and rulers heroes. There is an annotated version by the enemy mentioning all the awful things those rulers did

45 Romance at War - story of a soldier falling in love with a nurse and maintaining the relationship by post for months before one killed by a bomb and the other took a vehichle on a triumphant suicide attack, widely circulated and aproved 

46 Before the War - story of a rustic idyllic family before the war and how lovely it all was, by the time it was written every side had industrialised to compete against the Black Sphere. Many want the world to return to this fictional state 

47 Vampires Heart - horror romance about woman whose lover is corrupted becoming a vampire serving the Null Sphere. The heroine has to destroy him because she loves him. Now a popular play and puppet show 

48 The Generals Daughter - Story of a Orc marrying a noble woman and the problems with their families but through courage and vast depopulation of all peoples across the globe in the apocalypse they eventually came around and became firm allies against the black sphere

49 Billy Goat at War - story of a soldier lost in between trenches with their heroic pack goat who saved their life and fought mutants and undead to help get home to home lines with shattered legs. At the end the goat winks and gallops off to no mans land 

50 The Orphans of Shadelport - story of magic sewer children of this city collected over hundreds of years. Some even ended up in the early part of the Apocalypse
51 Newspaper announcing rations and countries collapsing to chaos from famine

52 Newspaper reporting first council of Lich Lords of the Death Temple and the Paladins of Law agreeing to fight together against the forces of the Null Sphere 

53 Newspaper list soldiers dead yesterday expanded edition and reports on flesh rotting disease and mutants on the homefront

54 Newspaper reports shortages of the wonder fuel of the age invented by alchemists, some suggest the only reason we were allowed to copy the technology was because the Null Lords knew the age of it was over

55 Newspaper reporting terrible sea battles with underwater battleships and undersea telegraphs cut

56 Newspaper reports numerous cities vanishing and only a few were wished back into reality

57 Newspaper reporting a decline in divine power and worship in this age of technology and alchemy

58 Newspaper claims rival faction overun with doppelgangers and tensions shaking the Allies' ability to work together. Black Sphere agents have helped spread this crisis

59 Newspaper reports New fleet of mechanised vehicles and automatons to keep up the fight

60 Newspaper reports generals shot for the massive failure of big push operation where almost a million died and no ground was gained
61 Fithy smut comics about ancient celebrities and radio show characters, badly printed

62 Cigarette cards various sets like: the gods, animals, allied people, weapons of war, wonders of the world

63 Saint Chrysophasia a comic about a war-nun saint destroying a fortress of the Black Sphere but was killed by the explosion of demons accidentally released from the gates, bindings and wards inside the fort

64 Stardust a comic about a team of wizards and children who explore magical places in whimsical manner

65 Ratballs a humorous weekly children's comic about a rat who torments enemies in the trenches with other hilarious child war heroes stories like Meddling Kids vs the Cult of the Black Orb. Many of these characters are found on cloth patches and figurines also

66 Football Comics full of heroic sport comics about balls in vast ancient stadiums

67 Fishing Comics full of all fishing action adventure with spectacular art

68 War Crime Comics showing all the brutality of war and its maimed survivors, a gloomy and depressing comic about real horrors of war with features on enemies trials and executions

69 Dashing Dame Watercress Comics has this plucky noble heroine save people on the homefront from diabolical plots of the Black Sphere. She always has a dishy new soldier love interest every issue and takes always a page to change clothes

70 Cinema Funnies with news on the latest cinematascope entertainments and comics based on the more popular ones and some pictures of on screen silent stars 
71 Manual on how to set table for military dinners and arrange seating plans

72 Manual for a common model of automobile or motorcycle

73 Manual on operation of several related weapons illustrating how to break down and clean

74 Manual on the operation of earth moving machine or train

75 Manual of regimental cooking for hundreds of soldiers and how to improvise with rat and pigeon and various emergency food substitutes 

76 Manual for doctors on base and camp hygiene 

77 Manual on operating a prison camp

78 Manual speculating on how to sabotage the sphere

79 Manual on telegram systems and network operations

80 Manual on building rail lines and exact measurements (the allies and the Black Orb had the same gauge)
81 Book of the Black Sphere - depressing book of philosophy warning all life is suffering and that the Null Sphere will see us from ever existing so we will be at peace forever

82 A Generals LIfe - a popular general mixes personal anecdotes with maxims for life which are pretty ordinary like make money and have a family

83 Allied Peoples Annual - showing all the various people across the world united against the end of reality and the Black Sphere. Lots of people in folk costumes or naked in some lands. Discusses how the war has unified everyone and other will never be a war again

84 Kryon's Book - a saint who helped unite various factions and died fighting the lords of the Black Orb. Cited by many faiths at a time when religion was in decline. It has elaborate tracts on keeping your soul and body purified with ritual and hygiene that has probably saved lives

85 Spirons Secrets - revelation brought by daemons who teach the apocalypse can be maintained infinitely to produce infinite suffering by messing with the plans of the Black Sphere but they also help them because the allies can't win either. Just keep the war going no matter what

86 Utopia is Calling - how to rebuild the world into paradise when the war ends and everybody has had enough of conflict (which didn't happen)

87 Army of Women - story of the Saint Heiralon who led an army of women and made an order to supply crusaders against the Null Sphere Lords. She was destroyed by demons but her order still exists in hiding for when needed 

88 It only Gets Worse - a guide to ending life as an act of mercy with many stories of persons the writer murdered to relieve their suffering. It concludes all life is suffering and pre-emtivley slaying before people can suffer is great also. It also advises torture and is banned for its perverse detail on this

89 Litanies of Hatred - description on many demon cults who assail the Black Sphere some because they want a universe of suffering others are demon mercenaries paid by gods. Some like the plague and famine demons may be only slightly less dangerous as allies 

90 The Book of Null a small pocketbook of depressing philosophy showing the pointlessness of life and how it is nothing but suffering. But wait the cult of the Black Sphere can end all suffering forever they just need your willingness to help stop all everyone suffering ever
91 Alchemists Primer a basic book of recipes for beginners that you can cook on a stove or campfire in cooking pots. Introduces some other concepts and how they hope to have mastery over all matter and magic one day. Start a career in alchemy today its the way of the future!

92 Arcane Engineers Book of Magical Construction with formula to determine volume of raw materials for your golems and other machines. Arcane formula to transmit soul energy in wires and store it in glass vessels

93 Occult Formula of the Black Sphere, a primer with spells for a 1st level wizard 

94 Songs of the Dead, bardic songs based on sorrow and despair for an order of masked mourners who wail at funerals for the death god

95 Bark Book of the Druids, condemning the use of alchemy, metal and machines and begging the reader to return to rock and soil. Include earth elemental summoning advice and other prayers depending on the edition. Also various theories of the blight over the wastes around Chagrinspire and ket ruins may be limiting growth and recovery 

96 Demonomicon of Karlix, a primer for demonic wizards with starting spells and a guide to the top ten demon lords offering benefits in the war against the Null Lords who make everything pleasureless and pointless 

97 Diabolicon of Searna, a primer to serving hell and all the awesome abilities you can get and how to learn from a secret evil school with no tuition fees! Includes spells for a bigining diabolic wizard

98 Elemental Masters Book of Law, a primer for lawful wizards who seek to dominate elementals and learn the various paths of elements. There are four volumes in all for each element each with a guide to pleasing elemental nobility and spells for a beginning wizard

99 Book of the Infinite Void, a manual of pleasing the outsider gods from beyond the universe always hungering for souls in the darkness and kept away by wards and spells. This book has tips for finding secret awful rites to let them in and banish them but only beginning spells for a wizard of the outer void. Even they don't like the Null sphere or the Daemons plans for eternal apocalypse

100 The Pheonix of Creation, an alchemy primer with ancient stories of alchemy and recipes for a beginner practitioner. It also has basic information on minerals, herbs, making apparatus, making a philosophers stone, magical materials and kabbalistic numerism to warp reality. The Grey Gnome version instead praises the anti-phoenix who will snuff all creation and end all sensation