Original Grimoire Card [spoiler]Dearest sisters, It’s taken me two years — a quarter of our lives — but I’ve found the proof. We aren’t native to the Fundament. Our ancient ancestors came here to hide. The plate of stone we live on, our Osmium Court, is one fragment of a rocky planet that crashed into the Fundament and broke apart. All the other nearby continents — the Helium Drinkers, the Bone Plaza, the Starcutters — came from the same world. Perhaps the other races of the Fundament are migrants too. We live on the shrapnel of our homeworld, floating on an ocean deep inside a gas giant. That’s what Fundament must be. A titanic gas planet. The endless storm above us must be one layer of the atmosphere. And the sea we float on... there’s more down beneath it. So much more! You understand what this means, Sathona. The Timid Truth is a lie. We aren’t meant to be the world’s prey. We weren’t born to live and die in the dark. We have a better destiny. Tell our father, sister Sathona. This is the proof of his life’s work. With love, for your second birthday, Your first surviving sister, Aurash[/spoiler] This is the first verse (chapter) of the first Book of Sorrow, a collection of stories compiled by Oryx. This verse is a letter from one sister to another about the nature of their current home world, known to them as Fundament. She starts off by saying that she has been on a voyage around Fundament for two years, a quarter of their natural lives, looking for their origin. What she finally discovered was that they are actually survivors of an event where their natural home world crashed into the massive planet; the continent they live on, known as the Osmium Court, only a fragment of their home. And they weren't the only survivors: several other continents exist on Fundament (Helium Drinkers, the Bone Plaza, the Starcutters) came from the same world, each with their own people on it which grew to be slightly different due to isolationism. All of these different continents now float inside Fundament, a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_giant]Gas Giant[/url] of titanic proportions. Their continent floats on a layer inside the planet (since the planet is gaseous, it is constructed more like a sun than planet Earth, in which it has many layers of different densities. The deeper you go, the more dense the gas is until eventually you reach a layer so dense a land mass could float upon it.), and the layer above them is so chaotic it is constantly storming. The sister then begins to think of what could lay in the "ocean" beneath them, and arrives at a conclusion: although they have been living meekly and scared for most of their lives, which they call the "Timid Truth", they have a greater Destiny. She asks her sister, Sathona, to inform their father of this discovery as it is his life's work. At the end, she wishes her sister a happy birthday and reveals her identity to be "Aurash". This is the first in a series of 52 Verses from the Books of Sorrow. Please leave feedback on whether this was easy to follow and what can be done to improve it!