Legomenon for Egderus' friend called the HISTORIAN

This oddly-named person appears as a character (or at least a referent) in numerous other Writings — by Egderus, Aric, the mysterious Missionary, and even the Scholar who curated most if not all of the others' Writings generations later.

This phenomenon has made it possible to work out a more complete (if still speculative) chronology of the Historian's life than can be done for almost any other figure in the Archives:

• As a young man, the Historian was (for a time, at least) the favorite of the (or a) son of the Golias who ruled in Egderus' youth, and it was during this period that he met and debated the Missionary;
• Later, he somehow fell foul of the Office of Inquiry, and was imprisoned and tortured by the Good Doctor during the period when Egderus served as the latter's scriptor;
• Egderus, Aric, and Aric's commander, Robenc, conspired to free the Historian (each for a different reason) by bringing down the Good Doctor;
• In his flight from the city, the Historian took refuge in the mountains, where he was rescued by a small group of apparently aboriginal people, possibly members of the so-called Remnant, from whom he later carried off a box containing sacred artifacts, as he recounts in his 'deathbed' confession, transcribed in {Historian's Tale}. The theft set in motion a calamitous sequence of events that resulted not only in his own death, but in the total extermination of his erstwhile rescuers, as a consequence of their vengeful pursuit of him into the domain of the Golias;
• This box, along with his Notebook, was recovered by Egderus and his scriptor Markito, as described in {Egderus and the Historian}.

The artifact from which the text of {Historian's Notebook} was originally extracted of course no longer exists, but it is described within its own pages as a kind of writing kit given him by his hosts, made of stiff sheets of cured skin or bark upon which he scratched letters with a stylus, which we can imagine was fashioned from a sharpened stick or shard of bone.

Many commentators — the Scholar first among them — have found this Writing implausible enough to prompt skepticism about the Archives as a whole, given the Notebook's complex (some would say overly convenient) intertwingling with so many other stories told therein.

But there is a countercurrent of opinion that regards this kind of pyrrhonism as mere literary snobbery, and admires the lyrical quality of the Notebook's portrait of an autochthonous people transmitting a deeper truth about the Remnant — and the entire culture of Egderus' time — than can necessarily be 'proved' by mere evidentiary factuality.

Finally, the attribution of {all fall down} to the Historian is perhaps tenuous, though of long standing, despite its evident resemblance to the thought and perspective of that Ancient critic, the Last One.