"It's in all kinds of languages and I can understand all the normal human ones thanks to the magical powers we have, but some of the more ancient languages and myth languages are nearly impossible to figure out. I'm hoping some of the books here in Santa's library can help us decipher them."

He went through a few pages and pointed to a spell that did have a translation in the margins. The page was covered in little droplets of what looked like dried blood.

"Even some of the ones that I have deciphered have these vague riddles explaining what the spells do and what the side effects of casting them are. I need to figure the clues out so I don't cast anything that kills me. One of them, a spell that makes it so you can give another myth a power up, apparently makes you bleed out of your eyes, ears, and nose until either someone pulls the book out of your hands or you die, unless you have enough willpower to control the spell better. It almost killed me the time I tried to use it."

Some of those droplets of brown did look a little more recent.