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THE QUAELHOIRHIM TOMES |
The
Quaelhoirhim Tomes,
housed in Elving, are one of those extremely odd documents that history turns up
every so often. An ancient script, written about 400 b.S.,
though possibly compiled over hundreds of years (one page is thought by the
elves to be over 8000
years old) it is part description and census of the
Santharian world at that time, part
detailed history, part literature and poetry and part lore and myth though its
descriptions of events prior to and during the First Santharian
War are considered to be some of the most accurate existing descriptions.
The title is possibly a misnomer, the tomes may well not have been written by
the Quaelhoirhim at all. Some believe that it is one of
the few surviving documents from the great
Aellenrhim
Library that house the Odosía (Styrásh
Odosía),
the everlasting books. Thus, it may well be
Aellenrhim
in origin. The Quaelhoirhim
Tomes were possibly a gift to the
Quaelhoirhim
friendship, or it may be a later amalgamation of
many rescued documents from all over Santharia.
Certainly one chapter concerns Ylfferhim
prophecy, which suggests that many
books authored by many different elven tribes
have been compiled into this two volume work. Though, by whom and when is still
hotly debated. Certainly parts have been very badly damaged, for example
several important pages regarding the origins of Maengolth's
Blood have been written over with details of a possible tactical assault
on the Fores, perhaps that during SW III. The
elven script underneath
is sadly barely legible, though the overlying
human penned details are fascinating in their own
right.
The Tomes were copied by Quaelhoirhim
scholars in Elving into a more legible and more sturdily bound volume
which was later given as a gift to King
Santhros by the elves as a mark of
continued friendship. This second volume is now housed in
New-Santhala,
and rarely viewed, except by those most esteemed historians
who are given explicit permission from the highes levels
in the establishment.
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