Five Tomes of Ancient Writings

## The Tomes

The majority of the tomes below reflect similar but conflicting prophecies and interpretations in relation to an apocalyptic event referred to as the Fiery Absolution which involves (in some shape or form), the return of Laijon, a hero from ancient times.

### The Way and Truth of Laijon

This tome foretells the return of Laijon. According to ***The Way and Truth of Laijon*** itself: “***The Way and Truth of Laijon** is eleven books as scribed: the Early Books of Prophecy, Book of the Great Hunts, Book of the Slave, Book of the Cross, Book of the Beasts, Book of the Atonement Tree, Ember Lighting Song of the Third Warrior Angel, Acts of the Second Warrior Angel, Revelations of the Fourth Warrior Angel, Song of the Stones, and the Soulless Lament. Other than these, there shall be no other gospels forever and ever, amen.”*

According to the ***Chivalric Illuminations of Raijael***, *“**The Way and Truth of Laijon**—an ancient text that to this day remains a shameful emblem of the lies and cover-ups and sins of our forebears, for they could never stand having their lies laid bare.”*

According to those who follow the ***Moon Scrolls of Mia***: *“We believe that secret truths of all things are hidden within the scrolls of Mia. For nothing is as false as the history we have all been taught, especially concerning Laijon and the holy book penned by the Last Warrior Angels… “The Way and Truth of Laijon—it is all a lie.”*

### The Chivalric Illuminations of Raijael

Followers of Raijael in Sør Sevier believe that Raijael was the one and only offspring of Laijon and Mia, and the mantle of heaven was passed on to him and his heirs.. They believe that on the day of Fiery Absolution, the Angel Prince of Raijael will reign as the true One and Only returned.  There is also a belief that the angel stones along with the weapons of the Five Warrior Angels will find their way into the hands of the last heir of Raijael before Fiery Isolation.

*“**The Chivalric Illuminations of Raijael**—a ten-volume and growing manuscript housed in the Rokenwalder Castle library—was a detailed history of Sør Sevier warfare to be read as holy script.“*

*“The followers of Raijael need only study **The Chivalric Illuminations** and believe in Laijon and swear fealty to his rightful heir, Raijael.”*

### The Moon Scrolls of Mia

The Brethren of Mia believe that it is possible and wish to avert Fiery Absolution. The ***Moon Scrolls of Mia*** speak of the return of all five Warrior Angels not just Laijon: the Princess, the Gladiator, the Assassin, the Thief and most importantly, the Slave.

*“There is only one uncorrupted truth: that penned by the Blessed Mother Mia in the Moon Scrolls.”*

*“The Brethren of Mia hold to the truths written in **The Moon Scrolls of Mia**—the lost writings of the Blessed Mother Mia. We believe that secret truths of all things are hidden within the scrolls of Mia. For nothing is as false as the history we have all been taught, especially concerning Laijon and the holy book penned by the Last Warrior Angels.*”

*“The Church of Laijon has clearly deemed The Moon Scrolls of Mia unholy and had them hidden in the vaults.”*

### The Book of the Betrayer

Spoilers for ***The Blackest Heart,*** chapter 7:

*A dark, unholy book that had rendered everything she knew about The Chivalric Illuminations of Raijael and the church in Amadon’s Way and Truth of Laijon as nonsense in her eyes. And she supposed that was the book’s purpose. To make her see that everything she’d previously known about the gods Laijon, Mia, and Raijael was utterly false. After she discovered the truths within The Book of the Betrayer, her previously held notion of a god to pay homage to seemed stupid. And according to The Book of the Betrayer, the worst of all falsehoods were found in something called The Moon Scrolls of Mia. Dashiell Dugal, one of the Five Warrior Angels, known as the Assassin, was thought to have died with Laijon under the Atonement Tree in Amadon when the fiery demons were banished to the underworld. But as all Bloodwoods knew, the real truth of the Assassin’s fate, and the fate of the ancient race of Demon Lords, lay within the pages of The Book of the Betrayer.*

### The Angel Stone Codex

The Angel Stone Codex was a set of ancient Vallè scrolls written in archaic Vallè script dating back to the War of Cleansing a thousand years ago.

*“There is an ancient text, even more ancient than The Moon Scrolls of Mia or The Way and Truth of Laijon. A text penned in an ancient, forgotten tongue, whether a dwarven or Vallè language, or a combination of both, I do not know. But my brother Ironcloud, along with another friend, work on deciphering the secrets of this ancient writing. It is called The Angel Stone Codex.  … The codex speaks of times before humans even arrived on the Five Isles. It speaks of these things hidden in the deeper and darker places of the world.”*

## POV Chapter references

The preface of each chapter is an extract from one of the Ancient Tomes. Below is a breakdown showing which Ancient Tome has been referred to in the preface to a POV character's chapter.

### The Angel Stone Codex

* Bishop Hugh Godwyn
* Lindholf Le Graven

### The Book of the Betrayer

* Crystalwood
* Shawcroft

### The Chivalric Illuminations of Raijael

* Gault Aulbrek
* Mancellor Allen

### The Moon Scrolls of Mia

* Jondralyn Bronachell
* Stefan Wayland
* Sterling Prentiss

### The Way and Truth of Laijon

* Ava Shay
* Mancellor Allen
* Nail
* Stefan Wayland
* Tala Bronachell

1. ↑ Brian Lee Durfee, The Blackest Heart, preface to chapter 5
2. ↑ Brian Lee Durfee, The Lonesome Crown, preface to chapter 26
3. ↑ Brian Lee Durfee. The Forgetting Moon, chapter 39
4. ↑ Brian Lee Durfee. The Forgetting Moon, chapter 10
5. ↑ Brian Lee Durfee. The Forgetting Moon, chapter 23
6. ↑ Brian Lee Durfee. The Forgetting Moon, chapter 20
7. ↑ Brian Lee Durfee. The Forgetting Moon, chapter 39
8. ↑ Brian Lee Durfee. The Forgetting Moon, chapter 5
9. ↑ Brian Lee Durfee.  The Blackest Heart, chapter 20