Palamar was my alter ego in college D&D sessions. His passion was the knowledge of magic, to the extent that it out-weighed most of his personal relationships. His wanderings helped him gather great knowledge, but before he could return his gift of knowledge to the world, he was entombed in a state of stasis by a spell of Imprisonment.
A grimoire [grim war] is a book of magical knowledge written between the late-medieval period and the 18th century. Such books contain astrological correspondences, lists of angels and demons, directions on casting charms and spells, on mixing medicines, summoning unearthly entities, and making talismans. The word grimoire is from the Old French gramaire, and is from the same root as the word grammar. This is partly because, in the mid-late Middle Ages, Latin “grammars” (books on Latin syntax and diction) were foundational to school and university education, as controlled by the Church — while to the illiterate majority, non-ecclesiastical books were suspect as magic. But “grammar” also denoted, to literate and illiterate alike, a book of basic instruction. (definition thanks to Wikipedia.com)
Palamar’s Grimoire therefore will be a site to decode the magic of modern topics and possibly return the favor of knowledge to a world that has taught me so much. This is my humble offering.