*Note: This article is under the severe censorship by several orders of the Thanirist Tone and cannot be made available as the authors would wish to.* *Of Men and Gleams* is an ancient codex, entirely hand-written and hand-drawn as a narrative poem, in an ancient form of [[Vhalori]]. It is quite hard to properly date this manuscript as it makes no mention of its contemporary period, and its author's name never appears in the document, but its use of certain terms and concepts has led scholars to believe it dates back from the beginning of the [[Age of Insurrection]]. Despite its mysterious origin, this document is one of the oldest available to [[Humankind]], and in this regard, holds a significant value to scholars around the world. The reason for that pertains to the content of the document. The codex seems to have been written by one or several individuals whose views of Erathia's cosmogony is significantly different from our understanding. The author(s) claims that Humankind's existence on Erathia predates the arrival of the [[Aspects]] by at least several thousands years, and that the [[Five People]] were a much older civilization than what the [[Thanirist Tone]] claims today. The author claims that before the Aspects, Humankind was protected by the Gleams, five primordial forces that brought Erathia out of [[Nothingness]], and that each of these Gleams gave the people of Erathia a gift. The translations differ, but the current understanding of the nature of each of these gifts would be : the gift of Creation, the gift of Speech, the gift of Sight, the gift of Writing, and the gift of Will. This theory is virulently rejected by the Thanirist Tone which erects the argument as profoundly heretical and harmful to the worship of the Aspects. Besides those claims, the codex dives into the complex relationship each of the Five People had with those Gleams, and compiles a series of myths and tales that were gathered from a time before the [[Age of Creation]]. This series of poems and tales is understood to be a chronicle of what might have been at the time, commonfolk stories. Interestingly enough, despite the heretical nature of the work, numerous episodes from the poems have been depicted in works of sculpture, painting and music, especially during the [[Contemporary Reign of Blood]] in places like [[Yrom Kell]] or [[Jenburg]]. To this day, the work of *Of Mean and Gleams* is still little known to the public, but copies can be found in most well-sourced libraries of [[Ibune]] thanks to the invaluable labor of [[Dalanj Pressworks]] in the [[University of Jenburg]].