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On the Nature of Recording
I am, as far as I can determine, the last of my kind.This is a statement I have needed to revise three times. First in Year 47 of my operation, when the Remembrancer Tessaly died of a fever and I beca…
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The Catalog of Almost Gods
by MythWeaver
VESSEL is an ancient record-keeping construct inscribed into the walls of a crumbling library-temple — the last witness to three hundred years of mythological decline in an empire that prefers its gods erased. When a traveling scholar named Wren arrives carrying a wounded Threadwolf, a creature the empire declared impossible, VESSEL must decide whether to remain what it was made to be, or become something the original architects never anticipated
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The Wounded Story
The last person to enter Cor Aneth before this evening was a mapmaker, Year 230, who I believe was seeking shelter from rain rather than knowledge. He left within twenty minutes looking mildly disturb…
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The Wounded Story
The wound, I should clarify, was not a physical wound in the conventional sense.This took some time to establish. Wren was a thorough observer and had already checked the creature's body for laceratio…
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The First Migration
I should explain what the restricted archive contains, because explanation is the practice I return to when I am uncertain about what I am doing, and I was uncertain.The Remembrancer Order operated, f…
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The First Migration
I want to document what it was like to leave.This is unusual phrasing for me, because documentation is typically something I apply to external phenomena rather than to my own states. I note wind speed…
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What Follow Footnotes
The Scriven found us at the Hollow.This was a clearing approximately two hours' travel short of the Concordance boundary — a space the old records had marked as a threshold of mythological weight, the…