Great Erasure
The Great Erasure occurred at exactly the day before the first day of Kantar, 1 IM. People of Otan awoke that day in anything from rags or robes, unaware as to how they came to be so attired; unaware as to how they became so situated.
Eventually the clues around them made it clear for many, what and who they were. As days progressed, they began recall the vagaries of their professions, their homes, their relationships. Farriers recalled how to shoe horses, scribes remembered their cursive scripts, and farmers remembered to feed their flocks.
Any memory from before the Great Erasure was forever gone, however. People in love had to fall in love again. Old enemies had to strive to become new enemies.
Search For the Past[edit]
Nothing remains of the past before the Great Erasure though evidence of a past exists. Here are some of the methods that scribes have used to piece together the time before the Great Erasure.
Memories of the Elders[edit]
With the Great Erasure only two and a half centuries in the past, there are a great many living persons who lived through it. While they have no memories from before the incident, they have vivid memories of the first moments after. These memories give at least a clue as to what likely existed prior to the Great Erasure.
For example, if you were to start the first day of 1 IM in a castle, you could perhaps estimate the age of the castle by examining wooden elements, rust on metal fixtures, deterioration in the grout on the castle walls, buildup of bird feces and dozens of other clues. Those careful enough to make these observations immediately, can project historical knowledge back to at least the apparent history of what was visible to them.
Historical Tomes and Documents[edit]
A great many documents exist that were evidently written prior to the Great Erasure, however not a single document exists that gives a historical clue or reference to the time before the incident. In the search for historical documents, timekeeping records, or even growth marks on family doorframes, not a single piece of historical evidence has ever been found.
The Divine Experience[edit]
Various auguries and divinations have been attempted to learn of the past from the gods. These attempts have all been in vain, however. The gods either cannot recall themselves, or refuse to speak of the past. Many a cleric who persisted too aggressively found themselves in trouble with their deity, to meet with ill omens.
Outlying Clues[edit]
There are a few religious tomes which do not specifically spell out the history before the Great Erasure, though they do seem to leave clues about the time before. Over the past few decades, missing pages and scrolls from these tomes have begun to surface, sometimes rejoining their original text. This has given clerics of that faith an unprecedented view of the past. The clerics, unfortunately, have not been forthcoming about their discoveries with the public.
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