Emerging Forth into the Light is a holy text to followers of the Chaskan and Khapeshan deity Shai. The text is primarily concerned with the correct means to bury or otherwise inter the dead, as well as with providing guidance to the souls of the deceased as they make their way towards judgement.
While Emerging Forth has a fair degree of variation amongst the Chaskan followers of Shai, in Khapesh it is rigid and inflexible and has been carefully passed down over the millennia. The funerary rites and rituals of Shai are of central importance in Khapeshan religion, all carefully recorded and preserved so they will never be forgotten. In addition to rituals performed for the dead, all are also buried with copies of Emerging Forth to help prepare their souls for the Rivers of the Dead.