Thauzunian Bible

The Thauzunian Bible was the central sacred scripture of the Thauzunian Orthodoxy, the dominant polytheistic religion of Thauzuno before the Fall. It was a compiled body of religious texts regarded by adherents as divinely guided and ritually authoritative, though composed and transmitted by generations of priests, scribes, and temple scholars. The Thauzunian Bible contained a wide range of literary forms, including mythic histories, legal codes, hymns, ritual instructions, genealogies of gods and rulers, moral teachings, and philosophical reflections on duty, order, and divine balance. Prior to the Fall, it functioned as both a religious foundation and a civic reference, shaping law, governance, and social norms.   The text developed gradually over several millennia, with its earliest material traditionally dated to around 5,000 BCE. Rather than originating from a single prophet or founding figure, the Thauzunian Bible emerged through institutional compilation. Regional temple authorities preserved and standardized earlier oral traditions, myth cycles, and ritual formulas, which were later consolidated into an official canon overseen by the Orthodoxy. Different sections of the Bible were associated with specific priestly orders or temple centers, and while doctrinal consistency was enforced, interpretive commentary was permitted and preserved alongside the core text. As a result, the Bible reflects both continuity and internal debate within the religious system.   Structurally, the Thauzunian Bible was divided into major groupings that addressed different aspects of divine and mortal order. These included cosmological accounts of creation and the gods, narratives of divine intervention in mortal history, codified laws governing worship and conduct, and liturgical texts used in public and private ritual. Moral instruction emphasized obligation, hierarchy, and balance rather than personal salvation, teaching that societal stability depended on proper alignment between mortals and the divine pantheon. The gods themselves were portrayed as powerful but interdependent, bound by cosmic rules that mirrored those imposed on society.   Before the Fall, copies of the Thauzunian Bible were maintained in major temples, administrative centers, and religious sites, where they were used for instruction, arbitration, and ceremonial recitation. The destruction of these institutions during the collapse led to the near-total loss of the canon as a unified text. What survives in the post-Fall world consists of fragments, quotations, and distorted retellings preserved through oral tradition, archaeological recovery, or restricted archives. Despite this fragmentation, the Thauzunian Bible remains one of the most influential and studied relics of pre-Fall Thauzunian civilization, offering rare insight into its theology, values, and systems of order.