It was considered to be the most solemn book to be written by Ezra Dunster himself. The known leadership of the See of Old, the location of the Archcathedral, was responsible for sanctioning the writing of its origins, at first intended solely for academic purposes. But things manifested differently as time went by, and the Book in question became rather a source of instruction for survival than simply serving as a collection of pages for general reference. Within the knowledge developed from the magical community, a subject of the same character eventually emerged, known simply as the discipline of "Care of Magical Creatures." Although it was initially thought of as an Almanac of the complete listing of the mythicals to be found anywhere else in the universe (including a collection of the rarest and extinct creatures), the Book of the Most Curious Mythicals was repurposed to serve a greater objective, primarily in the development of opposition and defense from the reversal ...