The Guarded Rubrics are an ancient library entrusted to the Tal'mahe'Ra by the being called Inauhaten.
Overview[]
Inauhaten gave the Tal’mahe’Ra the Guarded Rubrics, the distillation of necromantic praxis over the course of millennia. Their topics touched upon some of the Books of Nod, and even contained much of the same text, but possessed an overall eschatological bent that eclipsed the accounts of Caine. The Rubrics did not record the beginning of existence, but they precisely detailed the end, and one of the signs was the brood of Caine coming home to Enoch. The Guarded Rubrics said the blood of Caine would become the instrumentation of judgment, bringing about the end of the world.
After Inauhaten’s departure, one thing became clear: The Rubrics were more than a duty. They were an all-consuming, essential quest. They who controlled Enoch controlled the course of the apocalypse. The path illuminated by the Rubrics was set. Only those touched by both life and death, beyond both, could seize the course of destiny.
The Tal’Mahe’Ra possesses one of the most complete archives of early Cainite history in the world. Even the fabled Library of the Forgotten cannot match it in the quantity or quality of the lore it houses. The ruwat, the designated lorekeepers of the Sect and the guardians of this archive, release information from it solely on a need-to-know basis, and only with the permission of or with a directive from the unanimous vote of the Del'Roh and the Wazir council. In such ways does the Sect maintain a clear ideological and cultural identity for its younger members and pacify the ancestral hatreds and biases of its elder members in one stroke, while also concealing those things that no one outside the ruling council wishes to be commonly known.
References[]
- VTM: Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand, p. 19
- VTM: The Black Hand: A Guide to the Tal'Mahe'Ra, p. 13, 20, 25, 40, 93
