Institutional MemoryTheme
The Castle is itself a keeper of records, its living stone registering footfalls and preserving accounts across hundreds of Cycles, and several figures including Maren and Gault exist primarily as memory-adjacent presences rather than power-holders. Lary's address to future readers forty or four hundred Cycles hence treats the present moment as something the institution will outlive and must honestly record.
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The Castle is itself a keeper of records, its living stone registering footfalls and preserving accounts across hundreds of Cycles, and several figures including Maren and Gault exist primarily as memory-adjacent presences rather than power-holders. Lary's address to future readers forty or four hundred Cycles hence treats the present moment as something the institution will outlive and must honestly record.