Book of the World

The Book of the World is an enigmatic tome discovered in Asram in approximately 1254 DR; from the oxidation of the pages, the book was probably created some 400 years before that. The book consists of some 300 sheets of a thin, flexible metal upon which a simplified runic script in an extremely ancient form of Thorass has been scribed. Only a single copy of the book has ever been found, but it was evidently once the center of a body of religious beliefs. It contains a massive amount of mythological content, apparently having sprung from a sophisticated culture of a kind never known to have formed in Asram.

The Book of the World is notable for providing an origin myth for dragonkind, apparently a mythologized recount of the Tearfall in the Dawn Age. Godlike beings mentioned in the myth include Asgorath, Zotha, and a dragon called the Renegade, credited for the creation of metallic dragons. Interestingly, the Thorass word for renegade is bahmat, very similar to the modern name Bahamut.