Darkness and Despair

 was a book of poems written by Lady Bellany Norwit, while a captive of the orcs in 723. Brianna Barter discovered it in the small trunk that accompanied her since Thane and Rames recovered her and Bellany's possessions in High Shaman T'zar's lair.

The book contained a poem "Dark Lover", written about Bellany's love for the High Shaman. It was probably this poem that Brianna quoted to Timothy Evin, as a cover, to fool a spy presumably sent by Headmistress Vargrend.