The past is a rough draft. We are the editors.
INTERNAL MEMORANDUM — EYES ONLY FROM: Director Grau, Bureau of Historical Necessity TO: All Bureau 9 Personnel (Tiers 1 through 7; Tier 8 does not exist) RE: The Seventeenth Revision of the Founding Colleagues, The Founding of Velgarien has been revised sixteen times. Each revision was necessary. Each revision improved upon the truth in ways that truth alone could never achieve. A mere fact is a wild animal — untamed, unpredictable, liable to bite the hand that feeds it context. A revised fact is a domesticated fact: fed, groomed, and trained to sit where we place it. History is husbandry. We are the shepherds. The sheep would not understand the metaphor, which is why we do not consult them. The Seventeenth Revision is required because an anomaly has been detected in the Sixteenth. Specifically: the Sixteenth Revision states that Velgarien was founded by the Architect-General in the Year of Consolidation, following the Great Rationalisation, during which all prior forms of governanc...
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