The Ath-Yoniath Fragments (Ath-Yo-Nye-Ath)

The Ath-Yoniath Fragments is a collection of poetry that seems to originate somewhere in the 400s AS. It is unknown by what means it was published originally, but has been copied forward to the present day, albeit in slim numbers. Scholars of the work insist that direct textual copies of the work are effectively useless for analysis, and only copies which retain the author's idiosyncratic formatting choices are of use. The difficulty of making such "fully accurate" copies is a significant contributor to the rarity of the book.
The author claims to be Ellar Dimelis, the last scion of a minor Lon'res noble house following The Sundering. The Lon'res nobility are generally understood to have universally vanished during the Sundering, and whether this is an earnest claim or a literary device used by an anonymous true author is still hotly debated, but either way, Ellar himself seems to be quite mad. His commentaries and segues ramble and meander, and he seems to be suffering from extreme anxiety while penning them. The poetry itself is scattered, with some poems seeming to begin in the middle and ending just as suddenly, while others are rendered as a circular loop on the page. Structures very, from couplets scribbled in the margins of other verses, to hypercomplex meter lasting for dozens of pages.
The content of the text ranges from alarming to unsettling to incoherent. Descriptions of fantastical but gloomy realms are balanced with ruminations of the nature of several Void gods, a few of which are mentioned by name. Ellar's commentary seems to claim that much of this information takes the form of memories gained after witnessing the Sundering occur, though he claims to be unable to elaborate on the nature of that event. Several pages are completely blacked out with ink, and others include diagrams of devices that don't seem to have any actual function.
Monstrous visions increase in frequency as the book progresses, and the commentary passages reference these visions seeming to bleed from the poems into Ellar's actual perception during the writing of the text, and Ellar seems to grow increasingly terrified by this from page to page. The verse grows more erratic over time, and eventually even the commentary loses all coherency, to a point that has inspired some speculation that the final pages aren't actually written in Elvish like the bulk of the work.

Historical Details

Legacy

The Fragments are the basis of a literary mystery. It's unknown and seems relatively impossible to determine, if the author's claims of identity are true. It is clearly written in fluent Elvish, making full use of complex grammar and syntax, and using certain archaic forms that did not survive into the Diz'res variety of the Elvish language that had been well established by the time of the book's appearance in the historical record. However, verified claims of Lon'res nobility surviving into the fifth century AS are considered non-existant, and the verse contained within represents several colossal breaks with the conventions of Elvish poetry, and uses metering and rhyme schemes not common to any known variety of literature of the time.
The cloud of mystery around authorship only further complicates analysis of the text itself and the intent behind its publishing. The book remains obscure, and for many of those who know of its existence, the work remains their only encounter with the Void gods, making reading difficult and uncomfortable.

Medium

Papyrus

Authoring Date

~400 AS

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