The Book of Questions

The Book of Questions (Old Sumrë: Thaigh Lerñolemenmălmalsȯnė) is the final book which occurs in the Sumrichronicon and it is devoted to asking questions about mysteries in the sagas but also unanswered questions of the world in general. Some of these questions have various answers submitted by various shamans either by conjecture (like all answers in reply to questions from the sagas) or by experimentation or research if the question regarded another topic from the world. It was a rule that every answer contain further questions so that each thought could be pondered to in further detail. The following text will be the book in its entirety translated from Old Sumrë to English. The original questions will titled in Old Sumrë.

=Kė Örundi rinab?= “Who are the Örundi?”

In the first of our poems in The Book of Creation there is written a line “not the Örundi, they who perceive!” with the context that before creation the Vainti light could not be seen by anything except by Unwe himself and by the Fates. This line suggests that before creation happened there were another race of beings apparently named “Örundi” who existed and could percieve the Vainti. Who are the Örundi? Where did they come from? Are they dead or do they survive? Why haven’t we heard of them since?


 * 1) Farosdi the Witchdoctor answers: If we were created of the Wainta light. Is it possible that the Örundi were ancient beings created of the Vainti light? After creation when Unwe died and the Vainti light fled into the void perhaps these beings fled with the Vainti and still live in the void beyond the universe as a relic of ancient life from before creation. If this is true then who made the Örundi? Was it Unwe himself who wove them with the Vainti? Perhaps we shall see at the end of times when the Wainta and Vainti will collide and destroy each other.

=?= One question still echoed in Pėjart's mind, just what was the second roar? where did it come from? was there another Fate out there that was equally as powerful as Pėjart? These questions would trouble the Fate for eternities afterwards.