in the eyes of the gods , the legendary epic poem which is considered to be noriens earliest written document and of which , sadly , only fragments survive , preserved through the oral tradition of norienic lore and the painstaking work of adepts in the original language the nameless poet , narrating the early ages of the ever-shifting sphere , speaks of the runes as actual , precious stones , engraved with the infinite wisdom of the gods , who used them to oversee and reign the cosmos .