As recited by the bard Petrosius Ulsnesos

Beyond the seas,
Aloft the tallest the mountain,
laid a place sprawling with life
as water in a fountain.

The people had nothing to fear,
no danger ever got near,
the gods protected them like a faithful guard dog
until one child got lost, blind man in the fog.

There are a great deal of information available through books in the Library of Salen, this article gives a glimpse into a few of them.

Travelogues

A Discussion Over Tea

Author: Shu Fueng Han

Contents: A Discussion Over Tea contains information about the northern fiefdoms, their geography, culture and military strength. It is written in the form of a discussion between a wise man and his pupil.

Availability: This work is generally available in the southern parts of Adylheim, but are rarely seen elsewhere.

Sample Passage: According to a certain person, a number of years ago Tagadano Kyen told this story: In the practise of medicine the northerners make little difference between those who are high born and those who are low born, believing that both may be treated equally.

Some say that the Gods were the first created, the strongest, the first creatures to come from the chaos. They are wrong. Before this world and all its myriad cousins was created, before this, before there were gods, before there was anything, there was Chaos.

Chaos was everything and everything was Chaos. Chaos is the end as surely as it is the beginning. How long Chaos existed, how long before anything came out of Chaos, these questions are not the right questions. One cannot know the answer. There was nothing before the Chaos, if there was, the Chaos swallowed it up and turned it into itself. How long the Chaos existed is impossible to know, but one day, one day, something stepped out of the Chaos. We call him Primus, the first being. His first words were "I am", and the Chaos sang to him, then came his brothers and sisters, and they returned his call and said, "We are too".

These were the first, they were the Chaos Giants and there has never been anything ever like them, for they alone were birthed from pure Chaos, nothing else has ever been created from it. Their powers were Vaster than the Gods, 16 in total, the Chaos Giants, they decided finally, no one knows how long it took them. To create servants, companions, these were the Gods as we know them today. And the Gods were lesser than the Giants, they were weak, but they were many.