The Book of Neb
With the fall of reality in The Before the Akashic library as both a magical construct as well as a real place ceased to exist. In its absence, the god of magic decided to create a script known as The Book of Neb-Neter-U to contain the sum total knowledge of Akasha, and magic in general.
Aside from being a glossary of every spell and form of magic imaginable, it has a secondary function as an inside view to the mind of the Stilborn King. This has made it an important piece of academic knowledge for contemporary theologians wishing to study the Old Pantheon.
The knowledge of the script was brought to mortalkind by artifice of a thief acting at the behest of the god Gin, event that quickly developed into a horrible cataclysm, culminating with the creation of mindless undead and the rewriting of the laws of magic; the concept of spell-slots and spell points. The tablet was promptly retrieved by Neb-Neter-U and almost every copy was destroyed.
It was not until the Shadow Queen Quizra achieved her apotheosis by killing and absorbing the god Vitem Morta using High Magic (spells of level 10+) that Neb-Neter-U decided rewrite the laws of magic again, making the use of such powerful spells by anyone but him and the most ancient of dragons impossible.
The book is divided in three sections. Firstly, it features an introduction that serves as a warning to those reading it:
THE BOOK
Mortal kin of Abram, son of Vadik, the Envoy, the Tatulani, and the Created they who threads betwixt the Only Truth – life and death imminent: You are all disallowed to place eyes in this script for the knowledge here imprinted are of a forbidden nature. Heed my warning and pay no mind to it, and turn onto yourself the wrathful eye of the Stillborn King. Those that were, those that are, those that shall be in the spaces unknown to the ilk of death but between them, those who walk serene and primal, undimensioned to them and unseen. This book is for you.
This part is notable for being the only one that survived to this day. The original tablet featured an enchantment that made it so any who read it would understand it as if it were their native tongue. It is strange that Neb-Neter-U would willingly deal with intelligent life, as theologians studying the Old Gods have written extensively about the Stilborn King’s animosity against it.
The second section is the most extended in the way of prose; it features the god’s outlook on the multiverse; the concept of Nu, what the theologians have named the three Nebian aspects of life, his views of the place of the gods within reality, and his reasons behind magic. The second part features a series of subsections and addendums that reveal the god’s habit of philosophizing about his own existence.
The third section is the strangest but most simple, it is said to change depending on who reads it and at what time; it features every possible way of utilizing magic to reach one’s goals. It is unknown what the actual length of this third section is, but some scholars have theorized it contains an endless amount of knowledge.
NU
The divine are the fruit of the tree that existed Before. They are something born of everything and nothing at the same time, thusly, is the difference between nothing and something so far between?
Nu is a tree, and it equally is where this tree came from; an endless amount of possibilities, a primordial sea from where everything emerged, and the concept of creation included.
For mortal kin it appears as an infinitely large tree that extends across the planes, it acts as a conduit for magic, taking it across the planes with its roots.
In a metaphysical way it appears as a lake or a sea, its waters hold every law of reality, for what are gods but the strands that weave the multiverse.
THE GODS
Current manifestations of the veil of creation are meaningless in nature. It could have been anything else, this is the reason why I believe that the mortal habit of worshiping the divine as of itself is a fallacy; we were created with the intent of keeping the universe together, that is where our existence lies and our purpose ends.
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