Destiny's Book
The book contains everything that was, is, and will be. It is chained to Destiny's wrist. Destiny is blind, yet can somehow read from the book. The book is said to not have a separate existence from Destiny in the Lucifer series, so that Michael Demiurgos could not take it away and read from it. Destiny claims he cannot read aloud from the book because then the book becomes an element of the story it tells, which would cause disaster. However, the Challengers of the Unknown and others in new Brave and the Bold series possess the book without Destiny present and can read aloud information from the book. It may be concluded that Destiny was lying to Michael. Another possibility is that the Challengers of the Unknown's existence outside the book caused the normal rules governing the book to be altered or that simply rules have changed after Elaine replaced Yahweh. Once, Cain and Abel tried to steal Destiny's book from a pedestal, on the grounds that it would make him unable to tell stories. They had previously tried to hide it from him in a room full of duplicates.
The book represents a predestination philosophy. Everything that will happen was known must happen when the book was first written at the dawn of time. This is not always the case, because we have seen times in the new Brave and the Bold series where the book changes.
Yahweh is the author of the book. The script of the book changes after Yahweh abandons his creation, coming to a turning point of the original script (presumably what was written in The Books of Magic). Elaine Belloc, Yahweh's granddaughter has now taken over Yahweh's position, whether or not she will renew the original Script or not it's yet to be revealed.
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