Entering the Sleeper's Hall, Nami may find — on a cracked stone pedestal at some distance — a tome with elements of chronicled mythology discussing the Chained God. She can either leaf through it on site or take off with the book.
The tome is clearly very old, but the change in calligraphy and fresher ink in the writing of the more recent pages suggests new entries have been made over the years. It is an ongoing chronicle. Some dates scattered here and there in the text confirm that belief. The writers at times criticize each other's speculations and theories, claiming some historians were insufficiently learned in the sciences, or had certain political biases.
Most of the book is about the great conflict between the Chained God, the Father of chaos, and the men of Ephes, who took the oh-so-heartbreaking decision to turn on the deity and chain him to avoid the apocalypse and rebirth of the world. In a memorable passage, historian Gallia Salusa mentions fate had favored men in terms of the timing of their undertaking: it was possible to chain the god because he had finally achieved physical form. The book does not mention how, but speculates the god simply grew his distorted, disgusting worm-like form through the purity of his accruing power. The Chained God, the book notes, is not the only great destructive or divine power that prowls around mankind, and that each of these forces — existing as mere abstract power or influence — covets a physical form.
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Entering the Sleeper's Hall, Nami may find — on a cracked stone pedestal at some distance — a tome with elements of chronicled mythology discussing the Chained God. She can either leaf through it on site or take off with the book.
The tome is clearly very old, but the change in calligraphy and fresher ink in the writing of the more recent pages suggests new entries have been made over the years. It is an ongoing chronicle. Some dates scattered here and there in the text confirm that belief. The writers at times criticize each other's speculations and theories, claiming some historians were insufficiently learned in the sciences, or had certain political biases.
Most of the book is about the great conflict between the Chained God, the Father of chaos, and the men of Ephes, who took the oh-so-heartbreaking decision to turn on the deity and chain him to avoid the apocalypse and rebirth of the world. In a memorable passage, historian Gallia Salusa mentions fate had favored men in terms of the timing of their undertaking: it was possible to chain the god because he had finally achieved physical form. The book does not mention how, but speculates the god simply grew his distorted, disgusting worm-like form through the purity of his accruing power. The Chained God, the book notes, is not the only great destructive or divine power that prowls around mankind, and that each of these forces — existing as mere abstract power or influence — covets a physical form.