32 words of the Celestial Tongue
Dictionary of Creation
The world is written in a language of creation.
Anyone willing to understand it knows how to speak its words.
The “32 Words of the Celestial Tongue” is a journal belonging to Fire Maiden Cecilia. It documents her experience with rekindling the First Flame and learning the Celestial Tongue, alongside the words she learned. A book that ended up in the hands of many, both for good and bad reasons.
Dictionary of Creation
Background & History
Origins
During Cecilia’s reign as Fire Maiden, she attempted to rekindle the then unlit First Flame. Putting a bit of her soul into an ember, she tried to light the meteor once more, only to succeed halfway. The girl breached into the Celestial Realm with her sight, but could not call Fasma. Her eyes also could no longer see the material plane anymore, rendering her blind.
The years that followed made Cecilia notice the Celestial Tongue, and she studied it. Seeing the words that made the world around her, written by the Celestials, Cecilia learned how to navigate her surroundings. Understanding the foundation of existence, making the Fire Maiden’s blindness less crippling. But she did not stop there.
She wanted to learn the vocabulary of Celestials and kept a journal with her findings. Over seven years, Cecilia learned thirty-two words and how to read, write and speak them. Nobody of the Wandering Flame’s Church knew about its existence until her retirement.
Spread
After Cecilia's death, the book was donated to the Luxaltar archives and forgotten about. Its ramblings were indecipherable for most, making it only significant as an item of a former Fire Maiden. But it piqued the curiosity of a council member, Eldred Van Assen.
Finding the journal amongst the records, he deciphered the Celestial Tongue to achieve immortality. Eldred succeeded, but his attempt left him stuck in a stage between life and death, becoming akin to a Lich. The man fled with the book, presumed dead by the church.
His demise at the end of the Undead Crisis led to the rediscovery of his own research, but the book vanished. It is unclear where the book is, or if its contents are intact somehow.
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