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@ Geist

Those are good points for why they would bring the Book of Scriptures, but I'm still not sold on the Siege of White Cliff being where the Book was almost burned. I just realized that agents of the Outsider trying to set the Abbey's holy book aflame could very well have been what sparked the conflict (pun intended).

Also, after taking a closer look at the epitaph there are some things about the wording that bother me. It says Johnny B. "aided in hiding" the Book of Scriptures. First off, it would be strange to use the word "aided" if he did it by himself. Secondly, he was "hiding" the Book of Scriptures, which wouldn't really rhyme with "snatch[ing] the blessed book from the licking flames".

My new theory is that when the cult of the Outsider was still the dominant religion, they held a book burning aimed at silencing the growing Abbey of the Everyman. However, John Breton and at least one other person managed to stop them from finding the Book of Scriptures. The others could be Benjamin Holger and/or John Clavering, as they were around during that time and already have other things on their epitaph.

Our hero John Breton aside for a moment, do you have any insights on my original question?