"History is a set of lies agreed upon." — Napoleon Bonaparte
Two factions dominate Myrmecopolis' origin debates. The Ironroot Tribunal, led by Scarabaeus the Unyielding, asserts the city was forged when an elephant's tusk pierced the heart of a fungal god. The Mycelium Arsenal counters with Formicastra's heresy: that ants cultivated the first elephants as living siege engines, only to be outgrown by their creations. Both theories are etched into the Chamber of Flickering Annals, though entire passages are [DEGRADED] by deliberate fungal infestations.
From the lore of The Chitinous Mandate.