Aethelbrand's Histories

Aethelbrand's Histories is the most well known record of historical events in post-Sundering Rhyduania. Most copies are contained in sets of seven to twelve volumes, painstakingly copied at great cost from previous copies, making most privately owned sets minor family heirlooms. Versions featuring illuminated pages, illustrations and maps can sometimes fetch prices in the hundreds of gold pieces, whereas individual text-only volumes left over from incomplete sets can go for a handful of silvers.
While Aethelbrand's account is not the most in depth one available on any particular subject, it's generally regarded as the most complete account of known history. Nearly everyone on the continent with a formal education or a scholarly profession has read the Histories, although for most sages, their personal copy of the Histories comes to be used as more of an index to help decide on which of the more specialized works by other authors the sage should reference.
Aethelbrand himself was a Karthin man of distant Norveen descent, educated in Khasahn, who resided in Blackbush. He seems to have finished compiling his Histories around 2900 AS according to most reliable accounts.
A disturbingly popular but widely discredited idea is that Aethelbrand's Histories was actually written in 1389, the first thousand years depicted in the books never happened and were inserted to exaggerate the effects of the Sundering, and that the main purpose of the writing is to smear Nasir Shazeiros, who, in the eyes of the claimants, either did nothing wrong or never actually launched the Primrose Crusade.

Type

Record, Historical

Medium

Paper