[Video] Fun historic discoveries

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

[Now that she can, Bismuth isn't opposed to showing off a little. And so on the second day, an image projection appears on the network of herself with folded arms and a grim smile.

Oddly, she also has horns. Specifically, those of an antelope.]

I'm not sure how many people have wandered past that lane of statues near the market place? But you're gonna find a few familiar faces there. Me, Riddick, I think maybe Thace and someone else all got immortalized as statues. [She doesn't sound terribly pleased about the fact.] I'm not sure what for yet, but I'm open to suggestions.

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[capital_asset]

They're called The Pillars of the Martyrs, or occasionally 'Portori,' which translates in local language to 'those who carry,' or 'those who open doors.' They date to just after Fallen-Heart was taken by the rebels. They're allegorical figures: In the early Age of Shadow, it was said that the last living creatures would be a human, a lion, an ox, and a hawk, but at this point people don't remember what lions, oxen, or hawks actually are anymore except in a very general sense, which is why they're depicted as a burncat, an addax, and an ostrich.

For what it's worth, the lore behind them only seems to be known in Fallen Wrath, Fallen Heaven, and Moonfall.

[Guess who's Infilsona-ing and hating every second of it.]

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Huh. So I guess whatever rebellion we started must've only affected those places.

Well, and then the world ended, apparently. [Those are probably related, knowing them.]

[capital_asset]

And written records aren't a thing here. Writing anything at all isn't a thing here - not even the concept of it exists anymore, if it ever did.

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Yeesh. I'm a space rock with teleportation and holograph technology, and we still write things down. I'm not so surprised they've lost so much, now.

[capital_asset]

They got used to relying on psychic information storage, and I suppose written records seemed redundant after that. And then they lost much if not most of their psychically stored data...

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Well that's dumb.

[Frank. But not terribly inaccurate.]

[capital_asset]

At the very least, it seems careless in retrospect to use one type of information storage for everything. Then again, other types of physical records could easily have been destroyed in the multiple apocalypses they've had as well.

[Still, though.]