The Book of Coals Repository

The Book of Coals is entirely religious scripture — a collection of myths, parables, commandments, and theological teachings created by ancient authors and shaped by centuries of cultural interpretation.

Any “magical” or miraculous elements inside the book (the Laughing Flame creating the world, the Ember Dancer performing miracles, turning ash into flame, rising from the dead, etc.) are purely legendary and symbolic within the faith. They do not reflect actual supernatural events in the real world of Teravas.

The Book of Coals

The Holy Scripture of the Ember Faith (Also known as the Coals of the Laughing Flame)

Veil I – The First Spark (Creation Myth)

In the beginning, before time had meaning, there existed only the Great Cold — an infinite, lightless, soundless void of absolute nothingness and merciless stillness. No warmth, no laughter, no life. For untold eternities this Cold reigned unchallenged.

Then, without warning or external cause, the Laughing Flame ignited itself in a single explosive act of pure, defiant, uncontrollable joy. Its laughter was so vast and so powerful that it shattered the Great Cold forever. From the sparks flung outward during that first laugh, the stars were born. From its roaring heat the sun blazed into existence. From the falling, glowing embers the first heartbeats of all living creatures came into being.

The Laughing Flame then took pieces of its own burning body and shaped the supercontinent of Teravas. The mighty Emberforge Caldera is its still-beating, ever-glowing heart. The black and jagged mountains are its charred bones. The great rivers are its flowing molten blood. The forests sprang from its charred wood, and the oceans formed from the tears of joy it wept while laughing.

Finally, the Laughing Flame breathed upon the ash-covered earth and created the First Anthros — proud, strong, intelligent, and full of potential. Yet they were cold in spirit, arrogant, and distant from the Flame.

The Laughing Flame was still lonely. It desired eternal companions who could carry its warmth, laughter, and light through every darkness. So it reached deep into its own blazing heart, tore forth living pieces of divine fire, and carefully shaped