The Book of Aheh, also
called The Book of the First One, has a
place of considerable importance in Brownie
beliefs. Respected by almost all Brownies,
it is the centerpiece of stories told on The Rememberance, and is thus
remembered everywhere that there are Brownies.
Its entire text is also, along with other things, tattooed on the bodies of
Brownie Shamans living in Akdor. The strange history of The Book of Aheh
stretches back almost to the time of the dispersal of the
Brownies people.
Sometime between the years of 3000 and 2500 b.S. the wandering band of
Brownies that would
later settle in the edges of the Etherial
Void encountered a stranger, a human named
Eissoss, that did not originate in
Caelereth at all, but had stumbled
from his own world through the
Void into
Caelereth.
This stranger was half dead. The Brownies
tried to save him for weeks, but finally they failed. All during the time that
they were fighting to save his life, in a croaking whisper he was also learning
the Browniin language from
them. In the last hours of his life, he wrote the Book of
Aheh. He told them that it really should be longer, containing greater detail,
but since he was out of time, he would place these details
in the First One's hands, at the same time
placing what little he could write in theirs.
A copy of the Book of Aheh has been made below this introduction. It is written
in the original Browniin, and
is seen to have been one of the main defining forces on the development of
Browniin written language.
Scholars of Browniin grammar,
vocabulary, and usage, as well as those that wish to know more about
the First One, will
find this Book invaluable.
Below you can view the complete Book of Aheh written in
the original Brownie tongue: