THE ROCK TALES (TRUMESDRUMMERONS) |
The "Rock
Tales" (also known as
Trumesdrummerons,
Trumesdrummerons, or the Barollegendia)
are a compilation of dwarven religious writings, tales of
Trum-Baroll, and
Unsthommerons’ (Stone
Fathers') stories is known as the Barollegendia to
humans, but as
Trumesdrummerons (Trumesdrummerons),
"Rock Tales", to the
Thergerim. It is their only
"holy" book and
physical copies of the book are revered in an almost talismanic sense among the
older dwarves. One reason for this is that every copy is made by hand, by the
book’s future owner - the paper cut with a stone blade, stacked and pierced, and
sewn with natural fibers. The dwarf then binds it, often with bat skin or
drell
leather, and grinds her own ink from lizardgall and Urav-lichen. Then, under the
stern eye of the Denirim, she painstakingly copies the runes from the Denirim’s
own Trumesdrummerons. A single mistake means the book is burned; fortunately the
text is not a long one, and the
Thergerim tongue
not long-winded.
This fanatical attention to detail means that dwarven historians can be highly
certain of a certain text’s veracity - since the original was literally carved
in stone, contemporary copies can still be checked against it! The site of this
holy place, however, is only known to the Denirimerons of the
dwarves, and their
pilgrimage there (where it is believed that they make their copy directly from
the sacred stone itself) is shrouded in secrecy, lore, and misdirection. In
fact, a Denirim will occasionally travel without any purpose, various distances
from his home cavern simply to mislead any observers (dwarven or otherwise) who
might wish to spy out the UravdeniTrumhund, the True Holystone’s Home.
Information provided by
Bard Judith
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