Codex V: Book of Records

Last we come to something beyond the narrative of the world but something useful for scholars of the world- records. When I first underook this tedious labor there were records, but they were scattered among a thousand sources in a thousand places. It has taken my immortal power and my immortal scale of time to gather what rests before you, however short it seems. Precious time that might have been used in the writing has instead been spent in the gathering. I have either mistakenly or through unfortunate circumstance been compelled to use fragmentary sources for everything, even things to which I have been party or individuals I have known, since I cannot know every angle. For any authors who succeed me in this work, use these records and perhaps you may achieve more in a dying lifetime than I have managed in an infinite lifetime.

People. Here shall be the most important individuals in the creation, maintenance, and the decline of the world. I have been exhaustive in including not only many of the Eshan (though not all by far) and as many important olundi as I’ve come across during my work (yet still short by millions). Herein I have been assisted much by my Eshanic siblings who had revealed unto me the works and fates of many Eshan. Believe it or otherwise, we Eshan don’t cross paths for conversation quite as often as one might imagine.

Creatures. We all fall into the category of creatures but have chosen to separate ourselves according to the distinction of reason, given to Eshan naturally by Esseythu and replicated in olundi by Qazun. These here are the beings without Esseythu though their other qualities are immensely different from one another, being those of water, air, land, underland, and the void above.

The list here is nowhere near exhaustive. In truth I haven’t even attempted to list out many of the animals of the world in detail. I am not interested in it. Instead, I have written out a few examples for demonstration and spoken about the purpose of each variety in Esha. At some future point in the infinite future I might return and speak more about individual creatures and their natural breeds and capabilities, or perhaps I shall leave that work to another.

Power. For scientific purposes I have included the best of my knowledge regarding various Nemesharic powers, their origin, and their various applications. Of anything which the Eshan have created in the world these powers are the most misunderstood. They do bear in them, I believe, an opportunity to achieve some good through extraordinary power placed into the hands of olundi minds. Removing some of these powers (as able) from the hands of Eshan to the hands of olundi is an excellent first step to affecting this change, for without knowledge is superstition.

Materials. Last are the materials, to which I speak about the dynasties of the most fundamental elements and also the specialized materials wrought from Nemesharic sources. I speak about these things at all because it must be remembered by olundi that ALL the world is nothing more than Eshanic power formed (originally by Acolitus) into varying hardness and qualities to make clay to stone to iron. So called “natural” elements do no exist anywhere in the universe, for the only thing natural is Acolitus himself and the Adomeythu he destroyed- at least derived from the base term “native” to which clay, stones, and iron are quite recent creations.