Two Books Theory
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Two Books Theory[edit]
The two books theory states that there are two copies of the Book of Life: one for the Creator—residing outside of the Raposa realm—and one for the Raposa on their planet. This theory is used to explain why the Book of Life is sometimes portrayed as either green or red, and also explain why the world didn't end with the events of The Fall.
The Green Book[edit]
The Green Book of Life is the "master" copy, similar to an admin account on a computer. It contains only the most important pages required for life and physical reality as a whole. The Green Book resides outside of reality altogether (or, rather, contains all of reality within its pages), and is the sole reason reality as the Raposa know it exists. Since this book is not made of physical matter, nothing composed of matter can access it.
Furthermore, this is the book that you, as the Creator, drew into at the beginning of the first Drawn to Life. Raposa, their world, and universe are all contained in this copy only accessible to the Creator and those of equal power to them. Because the Raposa page (as well as all other life) is contained within the Green Book, anything that happens to the Red Book will not instantly extinguish all life on Neve. This is supported by the fact that Raposa—as well as a majority of fauna—still exist in the many years following Wilfre's destruction of the Red Book.
The Red Book[edit]
The Red Book of Life is the Raposa (or mayor) copy similar to a user account on a computer. It contains all of the non-vital creations that would aid the Raposa in survival. Typically, the Book of Life is only entrusted to the Mayor of Capital, and this is the Book we see most often throughout the events of Drawn to Life.
While the Red Book is still powerful on its own, it is incapable of creating life with souls like the Green Book can. All complex life drawn into the Red Book will manifest instead as Shadow Constructs, and results in the Red Book attempting to absorb a part of the Raposa's soul who performed the action in order to fulfill the creation order. This results in both the corruption of the Raposa and the soulless Shadow Constructs.
Although the removal of any page from the Red Book of Life can prove to be an existentialist threat, such damage is not immediately life-threatening as one would expect given the damage to the Book of Life in the first game. Since all vital pages are stored in the Green Book, damage to the Red Book is survivable. This explains why the Raposa world was able to persist given the absence of the Sun, Moon, Rain and other seemingly vital processes. These objects still physically existed (present within the Green Book), however their properties (controlled by the Red Book) were muted with the loss of these pages. For example, dense cloud cover still existed even without the influence of weather such as Rain Clouds, enough to block out the sun, which still produced enough light to support most life and enforce a stable planetary orbit. Once these pages were restored, their effects became fully apparent.
In short, it appears the Red Book only directly controls small-scale physical objects on Neve or limited effects of large-scale creations, while the Green Book controls the variables that support life, and life itself, in the Raposa universe. The Book of Life would have been entrusted to the Raposa to help them survive in an hostile world by allowing those trusted to hold the Book the ability to manipulate properties of the world in a manner advantageous to the species.
Trivia[edit]
- This theory was partially validated by Joseph Tringali prior to the launch of Drawn to Life: Two Realms.
