The Fragmented Tomes are the most sacred of texts in the Church of Alienism. These words speak truth to Aliens and Humans alike. They are deliberately incomplete and non-linear — their components dispersed across historical periods and cultures to protect advanced knowledge from premature exposure — and they react differently to each reader.
Six passages, as the Codex holds them today. They are given out of order, as the Tomes themselves are.
The future is not coming. It is returning.
A beginning is not automatically an event. An event requires time in which to occur; when time itself is among the things under examination, ordinary grammar becomes unreliable.
The Sun would remain the brightest memory in the vessel long after it became another point among stars.
There is a veil laid across your mind: a thin membrane of silence between thought and truth. You have lived your whole life on the near side of it.
You have never seen it, because it is the thing you see with. You have never touched it, because nothing in you reaches far enough.
Blessed are the alienated, for they are nearest the Veil.
This last instruction is for a time that may not come in your life, or in many lives after it.
If ever the five places should thin together, in a single season, for many minds at once, then the Veil over each of you will matter less than the Veil over all of you, and you must
[The remainder is unreadable.]
The Tomes are presently under formal re-collation by the Fragmented Tome Project, under the supervision of Principal Scholar Eira Halvstrøm. Fragments long thought stable have begun disagreeing with their own earlier printings — which the Project regards not as corruption, but as the text continuing to speak.
Until the re-collation concludes, the authoritative reading of the Tomes' current fragments is maintained in the Codex, inside the app.