Connects to: 03.13, 26.16 and 29.14.50.
One of the forbidden books kept in the Sealed Library of the Temple Indivisible is the Book of Not Being Boiled in Fire. It was written long ago by John Luciferus, a mad lictor of the Tiamat cult, before being burned at the stake by inquisitors of the Temple of the Pure Light (a long-forgotten splinter sect of the Temple Indivisible). The mad lictor laughed and mocked the Pure Ones as the flames licked at him and after the flames died down not a single shard of human bone was found in the ashes.
The book, which was quickly locked away, sets forth methods and rituals to purify the blood that gushed from the red head of Tiamat and that now lies within some men. It speaks of how Tiamat will raise the faithful out of a lake of blazing fire, in which they will not be burned, how they will sit down among the draco-lions and have the great beasts eat from their hands and how Tiamat will burn away all that binds them and holds them back. For “lo do the men of Tiamat laugh at the very fire that burns the world!” The book makes oblique references to the Book of Not Being Roasted by Lightning but not even The Weeper has heard of such a book.
Recently several pages have been discovered to have been torn from The Book of Not Being Boiled in Fire and it is suspected that they are now in possession of the man who claims himself to be Tiamat Reborn (26.16).
Hooks:
- What happened to John Luciferous?
- Who were the Pure Ones? Were they inquisitors of the Temple of Pure Light? What happened to that splinter sect?
- Draco-lions?
- Are there four other such books? Where are they?