The Lunar Compendium

"There is said to be a grand library somewhere in the vast expanses of this unknowable world. According to legend, contained within this structure are the great truths that all wonder about at some point in their lives." - From The Annals of the Trebai

The Lunar Compendium was a legendary, monumental library that was, in several cultures, said to contain the secrets of the universe. The concept of the Compendium developed independently in each culure that believed in it. A similarity in each culture's conception of the library was its relationship with the moons of the night sky.

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The Compendium was said to exist in the traditions of several different cultures, though in different forms. The most well known of these versions was that of Trebai legend. Trebai stories generally thought of the library as being located on Tei, the largest of the moons of the night sky. Jaslava, a Trebai Creation God, created the library as a way of storing the souls of all living things. Before the Second Era, either greatness or doom was said to be thrust upon a Trebai individual when Getorik's son, Adrios, the keeper of the Compendium, authored a new text that would significantly alter components of the individual's soul.
Among the Rowen, the Compendium was thought to be the creation of Jetorik, the god of the Library and the giver of written texts to the people. Like the Trebai, the Rowen believed that the library was located on the moon Tei. Upon death, the Rowen believed that an individual would ascend to Tei and give their life over to be preserved through the written word. Eventually, when no one remembered the individual, Jetorik himself would dispose of that person's book. This prompted the Rowen to keep extensive records of everyone they could.
The Eripe thought that the Compendium was a phantom structure located somewhere in the world, disappearing and reappearing out of the ocean at various points by means of magical forces. Because they believed that the moons themselves were divine, the Eripe theorized that upon death, a person's soul traveled along the ocean waves to each of the moons, to be judged by each of these gods. If the gods found that they had lived a worthy life, their life would be recorded forever in the Compendium

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Library