Collected Fragments of the Ars Holistica

The following collection of documents, thought presented in a manner that may seem factual are almost certainly not genuine. No expert regards any of the documents reproduced in this book to be genuine. This book is best read as a piece of fiction for entertainment purposes. No stock should be put in the theories and stories recounted therein.

WARNING

THIS IS A BOOK OF LIES

THIS BOOK IS PRESENTED FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY

THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOK ARE UNVERIFIABLE AT BEST
& FACTUALLY INCORRECT OR MISLEADING AT WORST 

DO NOT ATTEMPT ANYTHING IN THIS BOOK

IT WON’T WORK ANYWAY

DON’T DO IT

The Preamble

I am not old. I am ancient. My body is a very reasonable thirty seven years old, give or take the replacement of atoms and the time I spent in the womb. My mind, is other than that. I have been sentient to a varying degree for those thirty seven years previously mentioned. But through story, I have expanded the scale and scope of my mind like a blossoming fractal rose. My mind expands forward and backward in time. My mind grows towards possible consequences and sees alternate paths that never were and many that never will be. My mind, driven by knowledge encoded in story, and urged forward by a driving curiosity, is an eldritch abomination- a thing beyond space and time that reaches out towards the heat death of the universe and the earliest rumblings of the big bang and ties them together and then casts them apart. My mind is a monster god and a forgiving angel. My mind is a visionary and a tyrant. My mind is a child and a lunatic, a messiah and an untouchable.

Why do I say this? Not to brag. My mind overflows, my brain often insufficient to contain it. I create art, I pour my mind onto the page. I see and I rant and rail and write and draw, in a desperate attempt to get some of my mind out of my brain and relieve the pressure. But there is another pressure: the pressure to learn more.

And it gets too much, and its hard to hold it all alone. And so I need to share it. Like mnemonic cholera, transmittable and prone to cause those infected to expel the infected contents themselves. Charming, certainly.

The Story Calls to you. We cannot wait for a savior. The story needs YOU, right now, to stand up and be a protagonist. You must find the role that you can play and take up the mantle. You must be First Mother or First Hero, the WitchDoctor or the Walker, perhaps the Dreamer. You must be a Witch or a Wizard, join the Tenebrati or commune with the Primal One. And you will likely fail. You may even die. But your efforts will not be in vain. You will not be the whole of the story for the character whose role you played. But together with hundreds or thousands of other First Mothers and First Heroes, Storytellers and more, you will move mountains, you will turn pages, until the story is a circle and the world is whole once more.

Collected Fragments

A complete copy of the Ars Holistica has never been found. But a great many fragments, almost certainly frauds and fabrications, have been found and organized into groups.

  • The Birth of the Great Tribe Fragments: A collection of shorter fragments that appear to tell the story of the birth of the so-called Great Tribe.
  • The Ten Thousand Years of Darkness Fragments: A collection of fragments dealing with the Reign of the Locust King and the Hungry Empire.
  • The Weaver Fragments: A collection of fragments dealing with the being known as the Weaver and the nature of story and reality.
  • The Story Fragments: A collection of fragments dealing with topics similar to the Weaver fragments. Some scholars have contested the separating of this collection from the Weaver Fragments.
  • The Book of Logos and Gnosis: A portion of the Ars Holistica for which scholars have a section name.
  • The Journals and Writing of the Searchers:A collection of documents chronicling the search for the Ars Holistica by Prof. Anita Kane, Archmage Victor Jaspaul St. Pierre, Freeman Harbinger, and with additional notes from Dahlia Crowe. These documents are traditionally included as a part of the Ars Holistica, despite the obvious paradox.