The Saga of Archaemon

Open the clasp of the chest and pull from within the saga of Archaemon, Icon-born, and builder of the city of Oorsa.
The chest is made from the ruby eyes of the Entamenic Serpernt. It's latch forged from the bronze of Tolanci's ruined spear, and the tablets this story is written upon chizeled from the stone sheared from the face of Mount Sainia as Archaemon wrestled with his father, the Shepard.
Revel in his victories, for they are victories for us all. When he crushes his enemies, our enemies are crushed. When his wounds are healed, as are ours. 
When he feasts, so do we all. 

-The opening of the Saga of Archaemon

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The Saga of Archaemon, or more simply just the Saga, is an ancient story that was found before the nation of Sin-inun was discovered. It was recovered by an archeological expedition lead by a man who was certain that the ice-wastes around the North Ring were once habbitable, perhaps no harsher than any other winterlands.
That expedition did not find the frozen cities they set out to find, but they did find the long-since cold husk of an ancient airship, perched upon a spike of ice like a sea vessel upon the crest of a wave and frozen in time. The airship did not match any design that the expedition was familiar with and they were immediately intruiged. The leader, a Lebarallian man by the name of Travers Sterett, was even the first to climb the side of the ice spike himself, and set to lowering artefacts down.
In the hold, which was already full to bursting with what would have been treasures when the ship was flying (and some still were), they found a chest far more ornate than any others. It was not locked, and so at first it was assumed that it was empty, but the fact that it seemed untouched by time and the elements pushed them to see for themselves. Inside were a series of intricately carved tablets numbering just uner two hundred, and each bearing a section of the story of Archaemon.
From his birth to a human father or mother (the text uses the term interchangably) and supposedly the Icon known as the Shepard of the Black-Iron Hook, to the myriad enemies that he fought and slew for both good and bad reasons, the tablets seemingly expound greatly upon this singular being Archaemon for no other reason than to drape him in glory.
Most experts of the time simply assumed that the story came from a long-gone civilization (If it resided within the wasteland ring was still up for debate, even if this discovery convinced Traverse Sterett of his hypothesis until the day that he died) that had another, supplimental mode of worship than the Icons that we are familiar with.
It was much to their shock that the society that held this Archaemon so high was still around at the center of the North Ring, and actually flourishing.
It was doubly shocking when the subject of the story was revealed to be real, alive, and available for a chat.

Type

Manuscript, Literature

Medium

Stone