Chant of Light

The Chant of Light is a religious tome of chants that make up the foundation of the Chantry. The Chant is divided into Canticles that cover a wide range of subject matter such as cosmogenesis, human history, the personal history of the Maker's Prophet, or the foundation of the Chantry. Some are simply collections of hymns. Some are the specific teachings of the Chantry while others are meditations on the Maker or encouragement to the faithful.

Even within a Canticle, the same story may be told more than once with different styles, as each stanza may have been composed by a different disciple.

Canticles are described by title, stanza, and verse.

According to common belief, The Chant was written in its current form by the first Divine. There are heretical Canticles which have been removed from the work.

Canticle of Shartan
This text is considered heretical and has been removed from the current Chant of Light.

''At Shartan’s word, the sky ''Grew black with arrows. ''At Our Lady’s, ten thousand swords ''Rang from their sheaths, ''A great hymn rose over Valarian Fields gladly proclaiming: Those who had been slaves were now free. -- Canticle of Shartan 10:1

Canticle of Threnodies
Threnodies is not a person's name, but a dirge or lamentation.

''And so is the golden city blackened ''With each step you take in my Hall. ''Marvel at perfection, for it is fleeting. ''You have brought Sin to Heaven And doom upon all the world. -- Canticle of Threnodies 8:13

Canticle of Andraste
''And there I saw the Black City, Its towers forever stain'd, Its gates forever shut. ''Heaven has been filled with silence, ''I knew then, And cross'd my heart with shame.

-- Canticle of Andraste 1:11

Canticle of Trials
''I shall not be left to wander the drifting roads of the Fade; ''For there is no darkness, nor death either, in the Maker's Light. ''And nothing that He has wrought shall be lost. -- Canticle of Trials 1:14