First Book

The First Book is the first of two tomes found in The Castleverse needed for locating the Third Castle. It serves as verbal atlas or map, but requires the Second Book to be completely translated.

History
The First Book was presumably written, along with the second, nearing the end of the Second War of the Ancients, to allow Sentient beings guidance to the Third Castle, and by extension The Artifact, in case of dire emergency. It was placed in the smallest of the Castles, and the easiest to access.

Toward the end of the Ancient's War a dragon was made sentinel of the Castle to guard it against thieves, as opposed to the hoards of zombies and demons that guard the other two. After the book was retrieved by Etrius it was passed along to Dr. Romanov, who used it to locate the second, and eventually the third Castle.

Content
The First Book is speculated to be a written map or set of instructions to find the other Castles, however the Second Book was required to help find the third Castle. It is thought that the second book is needed for it to be translated, so it is possible that the first book is encrypted, and the second is the key to the encryption.

Trivia
In the original animation the book was bound in green, like the Second Book, but this was changed to red in Castle III to help distinguish it from the second book.

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