Codex Terragnosis Entries

Page 11617, line 14, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Geos IV, 819PT.

"In his prime, Tanavast was capable of a technique which the ever ardent World Singers named 'Sphere of Division'. During which his blade swung in every direction at speeds considered impossible even with their technology. So fast was the cut that for the instant the swing took there was no space within 2km that was not a sword. World Singer and Eternal Warden testing revealed that not only were targets hit through their shields, they were also struck on the back as if from behind. Tanavast never shared his secrets."

Page 2573 line 104, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Laman X, 940PT.

"In the final days of the Breaking of the World, the continents were torn asunder. Where land had once been, ocean was. And the reverse true. Mountains were ground down to level with the earth and what was not bathed in flame was buried in ice. The axial tilt of Fraternis shifted by 7 degrees. Such was the ruination wrought by the Knights who had broken the oaths that created them; though at that point they had long forgotten both their origin and the oaths. They instead called the condition, 'Blood-drunkeness'"

Page 7811 line 4, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Demix II, 381PT.

"After the oathbreaking and the splintering of the Herald's Breaths, those Knights which remained suffered a slow decline of knowledge and society over the generations. Excess replaced duty and sensation replaced honor. By the end, even they no longer understood how their own technology functioned."

Page 3022 line 311, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Neald I, 788PT.

"Each Order had their own particular reputations among the wider populace of non-knights. Will Shapers were known for granting advice where none had been asked. Fate Bringers always had more secrets, no matter how long you knew them. World Singers dismantled anything left in their possession for too long. Peace Forgers were known to make their sincerest promises sound like threats while Eternal Wardens were believed to harbor an insatiable hunger for the colored wax sticks used for drawing."

Page 4322 line 911, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Domon XI, 1120PT.

"The God Eater pinned the piece down with it's black spikes. The largest chunk of the Demiurge it had shattered. From the cracks in its body winged halos ringed with eyes spilled forth and died. The God Eater plied its questions to the piece of divinity, wrenching from it the 7 secret Names of God. The Commands only served to drive the God Eater further to madness."

Page 12417 line 117, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Geos IV, 833PT.

"Some World Singers refused to call their creators 'The Architects' or 'The Engineers' as the other orders did. As the World Singers saw it, an Architect or Engineer made it their duty to ensure all of their creations endured, when in reality their creators had made many worlds and many beings, then left them to their own devices. And thusly, they called them 'The Gardeners'. As a gardener might care deeply for their flowers- they will not weep for each fallen blossom."

Page 20481 line 13, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Hidial III, 848PT.

"Though His followers feverishly searched his last words for some universal wisdom; a final divine riddle; they found only the gurgles of a dying God."

Page 3529 line 104, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Milaax XX, 1421PT.

"The Knights slowly grew disillusioned with their prophesized 'Last Battle'. In the end, they decided that the Contract was as close as they'd ever come and falsely believed they had won.

In truth, the Last Battle would not be fought until half a million years later."

Page 11111 line 75, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Odo VII, 1287PT.

"Ignari the Keeper, Demigod of Secrets, was strange even among the demigods. He was known to scatter spell scrolls across the Frontier, often in ancient ruins and with some sort of mercurial 'puzzle' guarding it. In this way he became the closest thing to a 'patron demigod' of ratcatchers. Some even prayed to him, in hopes of finding better scrolls."

Page 7811 line 4 word 7, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Demix II, 322PT.

"Farmer Jacob Massey of the village of Elderbrook yielded from his harvest a pumpkin weighing four-hundred and fifty pounds."

Page 9665 line 205, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Meltran I, 49PT.

"Atomic weapons were employed in great number by the Ur in the War In Heaven. Though the weapons were only marginally effective against the Knights, the Ur achieved a greater victory in their deployment. Destruction of the planets which the Knights defended."

Page 12238 line 97, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Neald I, 761PT.

"Before their success with the Weapons, the Architects had two failed attempts at engineering protectors for the mortals."

Page 1944 line 306, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Demix I, 311PT.

"First were the dragons, which were innately programmed with the Commands *DESTROY. PROTECT.*. But this resulted in a greedy and egotistical creature. Powerful, but prone to stagnation."

Page 21334, line 28, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Geos V, 871PT.

"Second were the mimics, which were innately programmed with Commands *CHANGE. SURVIVE. PROTECT.*. Though quite similar to the Commands that gave rise to mortals, the result of this creation was a creature that ultimately preyed upon the mortals as ground-dwelling parasites rather than defending them."

Page 102 line 97 words 11-18, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Laman II , 502PT.

"The final iteration were the Weapons, created with the Commands *PROTECT GOOD. DESTROY EVIL.*. This was the first time they had attempted interjecting morality to temper the instructions. For a million years it was sufficient, and the Weapons fulfilled their function. Eventually, however, the subjective nature of the instructions and the Weapon's free will resulted in catastrophic malfunctions of the Commands. Their scholars theorized that this was a result of the first two words of the Commands swapping, or the destruction of the Commands themselves. Neither were entirely correct."

Page 202477 line 306, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Demix III, 402PT.

"Some of the Weapons, at the precipice of their failure chose to follow in their creator's footsteps by creating life. First were the Tiste Antii, four races made in their image. The last were the Soultaken, also called Changelings, made much later during the agonal breaths of the Weapon's dying race. The Tiste Antii forsake their designed purpose and secluded themselves from the world. The Soultaken, on the other hand, were made with no purpose at all."

Page 29 line 19, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Lepp V, 1394PT.

"Time crawled to its end. The last stars, red dwarfs, had burned into cold balls of iron and the iron decayed into radiation. All that remained were the longest-lived, supermassive singularities. Naturally, the Ur enslaved them."

Page 111197 line 98, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Heng XI, 701PT.

"Following Ajax the Invincible's fall, the divine rage with which Cyvris had created him with cooled into a sober, ruthless cruelty. His second child would reflect his new cunning and methodical nature."

Page 557 line 13, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Omo I, 18PT.

"The command '*CHANGE*' manifested many strange abilities in the mortals. Their Warrens, the plane within which their individual sentience was stored, leaked power at a constant rate. Through unconscious effort this power was pooled with that of other mortals and the result was manifestation of ascendant beings. Dependent on the power from the mortal's Warrens, and thus their worship or fear, these supernatural beings were as much slaves as they were their divine rulers. More still, even their very minds were subject to change based on the whims of mortal prayer."

Page 1011 line 48, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Geos II, 535PT.

"Black holes were particularly potent weapons against The Knights. Not even the Surge of Position could escape the event horizon. Due to the dilation of time from the incredible gravitational forces, those that fell inside still live, though they experience only a second of time for every half-million years on the outside. Thus the universe's entire lifespan passes in moments before their very eyes."

Page 1219 line 91, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Meltran IV, 239PT.

"And so, Fraternis entered what would later be called the Grim Age or the Age of Strife. The survivors of the Tyrant's divine cataclysm scraped and crawled in the ruins of their devastated golden age, destroyed yet again by the Spirit of Domination. The destruction of the previous God of Death left a power vacuum into which many Ascendant creatures vied for control. A stalemate occurred and a pact broke it. Each of the competing powers agreed create a single Avatar of Death who would have domain over certain kinds of souls. All of the Avatars of Death had great respect for Momon Anwè as he did not bludgeon the line between life and death, instead choosing to straddle it carefully, one foot on each side at all times."

Page 7811 line 5, of the Codex Terragnosis. Decoded by Cryptographer Demix II, 389PT.

"The death of the Tyrant was heralded by the arrival with a new moon above Fraternis. The heat that this moon radiated raised global temperatures, causing ancient glaciers to begin melting and the many aberrant beings, long imprisoned in ice, to thaw."