Notes on Recording History
During the earliest days of settlement on Postantera, recording history was not really the main focus of the aeternums. They just wanted themselves and their followers to stay alive through the hardships of war, migrations, and explorations. Most of the documentation of the early days were either from the aeternums themselves or records of movements and the like. Each and every movement of camps, food levels, population numbers, and other governmental forms were meticulously recorded.
How Being Immortal Might Affect Telling History
History is often employed in the real world for people to learn about the past generations. How would the institution of history work in a world where there are immortal beings? Just like you and me, immortal beings called Homo sapiens aeternum have the same brain and memory capacity. Invariably they will forget what has happened over the years, but will have much more time to work with. There is a split in what people think about the ability of an aeternum to remember past events. Many scholars believe that aeternums begin to lose their reliability after about one hundred years after an event, while some still might think that the aeternum memory is no better than a regular human's’ memory. To others, they believe memory varies on a person-to-person basis. It has become a habit for aeternums to chronicle their daily lives in journals, memoirs, diaries, and the like, all have which help them in jogging their memories thousands of years down the line, if not becoming historical sources in their own right. However, most scientists concur that an aeternum’s memory must always be corroborated with proper historical evidence like any other testimony. The problem with early Postantera is that there are some gaps in the records, so aeternum testimony has to be relied upon for the whole story.Remove these ads. Join the Worldbuilders Guild
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