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[Grahar]

Recently, i created a 4200 year old world, just to see what happened. After creation, I checked the legend of this world and found Usmen.
Usmen was a gray fiend. An enormous bear twisted in humanoid form with external ribs. It chants ceaselessly. Its gray hair is long and shaggy. Beware its deadly dust! Usmen was associated with war, death, dance and chaos.
So far, nothing unusual. Usmen escaped from the Underworld in year 14, tricked a human civilization into believing he was one of their gods (which was asscociated with victory, war and chaos) and became their law-giver.
In the midautumn of 97 however, he started a career as author. His first book was about the gray fiend Usmen, with the title "Never Underestimate The Gray Fiend". The writing was quite cruel.
Apparently, nobody noticed the similarity between the gray fiend in the book and their alleged god (or maybe someone did, but did not dare to bring this up), so Usmen published another book. And another one. Each book was cruel or vicious, and concerned topics such as Usmen, the Underworld, Usmen, Death, Usmen, the secrets of life and death, Usmen and, sometimes, cities of the human civilization.
At year 1000, Usmen had published almost one hundred books. After that, I was too lazy to count. If I extrapolate, then he would have written around 400 books by the year 4200. The whole world lists 850 artifacts, most of them books. This means that almost half of the books in this world were written by a cruel demon.
I have to admit, Usmen was quite subtle. He never killed anything, not even a chicken. Why should he? He could go out and make a few lifes miserable and then be killed by some hero, or he could write bad literature for four thousand years and make a lot of lifes miserable.
Is it common, that one fiend writes such a huge number of books?

[Deus Asmoth]

It's pretty common, yeah, particularly if the demon's associated with writing. I wouldn't call a hundred books in a thousand years all that productive, though. Terry Pratchett's written more than eighty in just over sixty years. Heck, Usmen might even be a slower writer than George R R Martin.

[Grahar]

True, but compred to the less than 850 books in the whole world, it is quite a lot. However, I'm glad to hear this is not unusual, that means I might be able to reproduce of when the next update comes.