When the Inner Scale asked for an addon with one hundred chapters and ten thousand verses in each, the scribes did the arithmetic and went very quiet. One million verses, written out in full, would weigh close to two hundred megabytes. World of Warcraft would sit at the loading screen, thinking about it, for a very long time.
Hand-written first
So Disciples of Devotion is built in two layers. Every chapter opens with real scripture: all 2,349 hand-written verses of the Canon, the Chronicle, the Legends, the Teachings, the Rites, the Scripture, the Codex and the Politics of Begging, each gathered into the chapter where it belongs. Chapter 3 is the Four Sights. Chapter 64 is the life of Hessk. Chapter 100 closes with the Catechism of the Open Palm.
Then the Verse Engine
After the hand-written verses, the Verse Engine takes over. It builds each verse from hand-written pieces of the faith, arranged by fourteen sacred forms: blessings and woes, sayings of the saints, the deeds of the faithful, the acts of the Coil. Each chapter adds its own figures and holy places, so the Book of Kings speaks of Ssethra and Thalluk while the Book of the Void speaks of Shedwraiths and the Vault Wyrm.
Say not, "I am too loud to be loosened"; say rather, "I am content, and the item may drop," as a weary healer taught.Devotion 42:7731
The same verse on every computer
The engine never rolls dice. Each verse is built from its own number, so /dod read 42:7731 gives the verse above for every faithful, everywhere, forever. Within a chapter no verse repeats. A guild can choose a chapter on raid night and read it together, line by line, and everyone's screen will agree.
Built for Midnight
Reading pauses in combat and during boss encounter chat lockdown, then picks up on the same verse. Single verses can be spoken in Emote, Say, Party or Guild; timed reading always uses emotes, because the game only allows Say on a click. Your target's name is read into verses that call on the faithful. And every chapter has its own icon: a metallic medallion with a sigil for its Book, cut from the portrait of Xal'Reth the Eternal.
The whole addon is about one megabyte. Download it here, or try the live reader on the Devotion page, which runs the very same engine in your browser.