"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." — H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (1928) [filed by the Archivist under 'Ironic Citations'; the mercy here is aesthetic, not cosmic]
Edvard Søe, Arborist of the Canopy and Keeper of the Weeping Forms, offers a third account that is not, strictly speaking, an account of Formgård's founding at all. Edvard maintains that the trauerweiden — the weeping willows that define the Canopy District's visual character, whose trailing branches create the city's only undesigned spaces — preceded everything. Not just the Plinth Pavilion and the Promenade's lamp-array, but the Shard itself. The willows, Edvard says, were here before there was a here to be in. They are the Shard's oldest structure, and the one least interested in being looked at. The Bureau cannot verify this claim and notes that Edvard holds no academic appointment. The Bureau also cannot explain why the Archive of Resolved Forms contains no founding charter, no original design commission, and no documentation of any kind predating [CONSUMED — the entry termination date has been absorbed by the surrounding text. The following sentence was retrieved from a secondar...
From the lore of The Panopticon of Good Taste.