The Grim Anatomy
from Dragon Age: The World of Thedas Volume 2 [x]
In 9:16 Dragon, a strange book was recovered during a University of Orlais expedition into an uncharted section of the Western Approach. The book is written in an invented script by an unknown author, apparently on the subject of animal physiology.
The author of this book, dubbed the “Grim Anatomy” by its finders, dissects various creatures using unorthodox methods. The resulting diagrams illustrate in great detail how nugs, giants, wyverns, and others look on the inside. Careful study is paid to the eyes of the nug. Based on the drawings and a limited deciphering of the text, the author seems all but obsessed with understanding what animals see and how this might differ from our own perception of reality.
In later pages of the Grim Anatomy, the author tears a giant’s eye straight from its socked. “If the eye is the window through which it crawls, then where in the skull does it hide,” they wonder. “It” likely refers to a demon attempting to possess the beast.
It is widely believed that the Grim Anatomy’s focus is on demonic possession, specifically how a demon, itself a tangible being, can enter into the mind of another and manipulate it. Here, the author observes the motor skills of a possessed wyvern. “It is not wearing the creature’s skin,” the notes read. “It has become the creature; its mind, it’s senses…its blood.”
The last pages of the Grim Anatomy are largely unreadable, torn, and singed. It’s as if someone attempted to destroy the book. What little can be made out speaks of rot and emptiness. The accompanying diagrams are bizarre, no longer resembling the physiology of any known animal but instead a mess of overlapping and interconnected geometric shapes.
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