An ancient Roulean tome written by Archephoros. Amul ibn Rakhil quoted the following passage, "To fight the dark, one must sometimes be a shadow." Yasif ibn Salayyar quoted the treatises as saying, "Death is never a balm." Mansur al-Rajan read this tome during his training to become a Zharalim. Our best estimate for when this text was written is around -1068 RC. For more information see the Timeline of Ispar.