Book of the Flood

Arguably the oldest written history in existence (albeit in fragmentary and partial form), the Book of the Flood is believed to be a written account of a far older Tevashi tradition of oral histories and mythologies. It is estimated to have been written at some point between 500BFF and 1,500BFF (around 3,250 to 4,250 years pre-AK). The time period that the events described took place in is difficult to assess with any real degree of accuracy, but is conventionally stated to be 3,000 BFF to 2,000 BFF (around 4750 to 5750 years pre-AK). The Book of the Flood concerns the War of the First Alliance of the dwarves against the Ordning of the Giants who ruled over the  world at that time, in which the dwarves were eventually victorious.
The Flood for which the text is named is the final event described - a cataclysm that swept over the world and created the oceans of the present day, released by the giants unleashing the “Fires of the Deep” (Tzat Dun) upon the “Great Glacier” (Tak Azem).
The original Book of the Flood consisted of a number of clay tablets, created in the Predynastic Period of Vash Edom. The majority are believed to have been lost or destroyed during the Second Dynastic Period  , though one of two of the original tablets were said to have survived to the time of Alavar Scriptorum; a number of copies had, however, been made in the interim. The last of the original tablets was lost following the Eruption of Mat Zadat  in 544 AK, along with the majority of commentaries and other texts relating to the book.
In the centuries since the fall of Tzim Tevash certain Tevashi scholars have managed to reconstruct much of the original text from the copies and commentaries which survived the destruction of Vash Edom; however to this day less than half of the original text has been restored, and there is a significant amount of disagreement over the accuracy of much of what has been reconstructed.

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Book of the Flood

On Kel Enda'nara

“Then the King of the Giants brought down his rod a third time, and broke the westernmost finger of Tak Azem, which rushed into the lands below; and from where the the ice had departed came forth a valley and a lake, and the valley would be called Kel Enda'nara”

On the Eladrin

In the fiftieth year of the rule of King Tzumenakka, an envoy did arrive from the people-of-the-seasons, bringing news that the Coldhearted One had from his palace of Luminous Sorrow been deposed, and taken thereupon his exile to the place they called Bitterness; and that his conqueror had proclaimed herself Queen of Frost and Soul of Winter in his stead

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Medium

Clay

Authoring Date

500 to 1,500 years Before First Founding

Myth

War of the First Alliance

Location

Vash Edom