Concordat of the Illimitable Tome

is the legendary treaty of peace between the gods that ended the “time of cataclysm doomed surely to be the end of all that be.” The, the , provided that all the myriad knowledge of men and gods be removed from the minds of men and reserved to the gods alone. This knowledge was written in the (the ) and placed in the keeping of the god  against future need. The also established strict limits on the ways in which the deities could intervene to aid their adherents and the frequency with which such interventions could take place (karma or manna). The articles of the great treaty are, by their very nature, incomprehensible to mortals, which fact is used to “explain” the sometimes inexplicable behavior of the gods.

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