I'm wondering where these books can be found in the game. Books 2 and 4 can be found fairly easilly, but 1 and 3 seem harder to track down. Finding their actual locations via the Construction Set is a bit difficult, so I'm wondering if anyone's managed to find the locations where they can all be found (preferably static spawn points, instead of as part of random loot lists).

Vol. III is in Arcane university, vol. I is random only. You can cheat to get it if you do 'Bear Season'. Kill the bears, save before you turn the quest in, he gives you one of a selection of books. Just reload until you get the one you want. I think AG I is one of about six or so that he offers.

I see, thanks.

Kind of odd that volume 1 is a random, one-chance-only reward. For being the first of 4 books of a prolific series, it seems quite bad to force a player to metagame to get it to be able to complete the series. You could play the game a dozen times with different characters and never get the full series, with no hints and never realizing where the missing book is, especially if you don't always do that quest (I actually tend to avoid it because those bears are nasty and the quest is otherwise nothing special). Volume 3 isn't much better, with a single copy locked away with no hints to its where-abouts, but at least it's a static placement in the AU, always available to those with a keen eye (which apparently I'm not, as I've been to the AU with a couple different characters before; and of course my current one isn't a mage).

Vol 1 isn't one chance only, I don't think. I seem to recall seeing a copy and I've not done that quest.

I like the way they've done it. I like a challenge when exploring and completing sets.

Sorry, should have been clearer. Vol.I can be found in random loot anywhere, as well as being one of the rewards for Bear Season.