Thrapsus

The Great Library of Ferisia was the largest single repository of organized knowledge on the continent — continental maps, historical records, trade route documentation, legal instruments, diplomatic correspondence. It served as something approaching a neutral point of reference for peoples with little else in common.

The cause of the burning remains unestablished. Surviving records are contested; accounts contradict one another on almost every material question.— Chronicle Project records

Most chroniclers treat the burning as the moment at which the world's fragmentation accelerated beyond recovery. Trade routes became unreliable without the records that maintained them. Diplomatic instruments became subjects of dispute. Technical knowledge held centrally at Ferisia became unverifiable for generations.

The ruins remain in Ferisia's borough of Ashhold, preserved by civic decree. Built immediately beside them — visible from within its reading rooms — stands the new Great Library, and the chronicle project this site exists to record.

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