Ancient Scripture

The Dutri itself is an ancient set of scriptures that explain the creation of Riiga itself, as well as many of the Hireos and Odanon, and the creation of the first few races. Unfortunately, four slabs were destroyed right after the carving was completed, so a part of this history is gone.

History

When humans found Hunnuklad in 3802BD, they found with it numerous scriptures. The scripture on the alterpiece in the centre of the old library was one which was later translated to say Dutri, which means 'choice'. Many people tried and failed to translate its contents, but nobody could. Not even Carson's notes helped anyone. When the high priest at the time, known as Father Duosol, met Nikina, the god of creation, he gave Duosol a set of instructions. Duosol, being one of the most famous priests of Riiga and a man of complete faith, obeyed.

Nikina told him firstly to gather twenty-one scribes, each sufficient writing material. They were to be seated in the prime chamber of Hunnuklad, where Nikina would read out the Dutri's contents in their own language. Nikina told each scribe to write only one portion of what he explained, so the Dutri was separated into twenty-one pieces. Nikina also said he would only speak the Dutri once, so the translated scriptures must be taken absolute care of. Nikina read out the Dutri soon after, and each scribe wrote frantically when it was his or her turn. They were supervised by guards the entire time.

When this was done, Nikina showed them to a large round room with walls consisting of twenty-one great stone slabs, so high that scaffolding was constructed to reach their tops. Nikina told them to carve what the scrolls said into the walls, and for the scrolls to be burnt immediately after. This was so that none could argue against the words, as they were set into stone. However, as the scaffolding was being removed after the completion of the carving, a great crack appeared across pieces 8, 9, 10, and 11, and the stones fell and shattered. For fear of going against Nikina's word, Duosol approached the god and told him what had happened. Nikina said it was the fault of the carelessness of the workers, and said nothing more. Judging by the sequence of events, it is believed to contain more information about the race in the temples (piece 8), and some time after, the birth of Renin (piece 9) and the first humans (pieces 10 and 11). Two of the stones split into 52 pieces, and the other two split into 53 pieces. All attempts at reassembling them soon failed.

Immediately, Duosol employed many clever people to try to fathom the language of the scripture which is now known as Manamor, but none could translate more than a few letters here and there, even with the English translations at hand. Duosol continued to try to translate the scriptures until the day he died.

Usage

The Dutri has become the basis for the Order of Dualkedor (named after Duosol's son, Father Dualkedor) which guards Hunnuklad and owns and runs all the churches of North Nidonn and some throughout Central and the West. Because humans are descendants of Nikina, this order believes that it is the role of humans to uphold the traits described in the Dutri referring to Nikina's four parts: light and energy, spirit and soul, peace and choice, and birth and growth.

• Light is representative of the power the order has over The Enemy and his minions.
• Spirit is representative of the spiritual journey that all humans should make if they wish to be at peace when they are taken to Adumbra.
• Peace is representative of the efforts of the order to maintain a peaceful environment where people are educated to make correct choices.
• Birth is representative of the primal desire for humans to multiply so that they may share all of Riiga to the fullest.

These four areas are what the Order of Dualkedor base their principles on. Anybody displaying traits of Garukavar or The Enemy - "hatred and vulgarity and dishonesty and shallownes", "manipulative words of apprehension and false desperation") is an enemy of the Dualkedorian Order according to the Dutri. Sometimes the order uses force to oppress anyone like this, and other times the order uses peaceful methods.

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