A Thorough Study in Monstrous Biology and its Linkage to the Kraken - Valo Rehn (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
When no answers to my queries in childish count could be mustered I sought to dedicate my life to the uncovering of such dangerous secrets as these ORGANISMS must hold. (I bold such verbiage as to bring attention to this one of many assumptions we have held and could continue to hold for generations. We may, when the science comes to call, require a reclassification of the word itself, for such living breathing entities must not be brought to stable with the mundane likes of Gannar and Sika.) So I set to a path of understanding, the danger I would be in, and hopefully by it, what strange Workings were wrought in the craggy flesh of the crystal bearing demons.
Perhaps the oldest surviving document on Attovia still used in academics. As far as anyone knows only a single copy ever existed, and its author Valo Rehn is a historically unknown figure. Despite this, the book contains documented research on Monster Biology that to this day has yet to be repeated. Some experiments described within are exceedingly dangerous or require one to get their hands on live samples of very rare creatures. Those experiments that have been successfully recreated have consistently proven the books legitimacy.