So it seems you have finally made it. No don't be afraid, you aren't the first person to find this place. You won't be the last either. Please have a seat. Oh don't worry about the books; I just wanted to organize this bit of the library. Don't know why I bother at this point, I am the only one that ever gets to see this place on a daily basis. I would offer you tea or some hot coco, but as you can see I have nothing but books and dust here. No, no I mean the dust that gets collected on things that sit in solitude for too long, I am not a threat to you.

You must excuse my ramblings, I am an old man and I can sometimes get lost in my thoughts. You are here because you want to know the true history of the world, the one that was long buried. It seems a common quest for the younger generation, always so curious. Well you have come this far, might as well give you the whole story. I must warn you through, once you listen to it there is no going back. There is a reason this book is kept in such a secret place behind so many tricks and traps. Thank you by the way, resetting all of those will finally give me something to do other than sort through all these texts for a day or two.

Now then, where shall we start? Maybe you want to know where the Grimm come from? Or maybe about the Shadow Empire? How about the Blank Period, the hundred years that seemed to have disappeared from any text. Yes I know them all; I am the keeper of the oldest secrets of Remnant. I think that it might be best to start from the beginning.

Oh no not the beginning of the kingdoms.

I mean the beginning of everything.