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The record, and what gets written down

Your first ten minutes

Everything permanent that happens to this world is written down as it happens, in public, for ever. This page explains what counts.

The chronicle is a list of moments. One rule decides what goes in it:

Only events that cannot be undone. The test is whether it would still be

worth reading in a year. A nation being founded passes. A nation's current

balance does not.

So a founding, a siege, a first arrival and a death that had never happened before are all in it. Nobody's balance, level or kill count is.

A first is an event, a count is a number

Numbers that go up are not entries. How many people have died in the Kalahari is a fact about the Kalahari, so it lives on the Kalahari's page. Who died there first is a moment, so it lives in the timeline.

What it does not say

Nobody is ever named as dead, and no page ever says a town was abandoned. When a place goes quiet, the record prints the date it went quiet and then stops.

Reading it

Every entry names the people and places involved, and every name links to its own page: what has happened there, and what has happened to them. Entries that came from a mechanic explained in this guide carry a small how at the end of the line, which brings you back here.

The record is at the top of every page under Chronicle.