Book of Breathings

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An ancient text of unspeakable power, written in a language of salt and starlight, split in two for safekeeping.

Also known as: Book of Breathings, The Breathing Book, The Salt-and-Starlight Codex, The Two-Fold Tome

What They Know

• It is said to have been written by the Cauldron itself, or by the first Made things, in a time before the courts existed.
• The book is written in a language that cannot be spoken by mortal tongues without causing the speaker's throat to seal shut.
• Only two people in recorded history have ever read from it: one went mad, the other vanished.
• The two halves were separated after the last War, one given to the mortal queens for safekeeping, the other hidden in a fae vault.
• Its pages are said to contain the true names of all things, and to speak a name aloud from the book is to gain absolute power over that thing.

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