Postscript to Histories, Year 1029
This book was delivered to Leviathan’s End two months after the Battle of Ranan. It was given to the Captain of Jao by an anonymous courier on the docks of Tnegt in Zoatia. The Captain says only that the bearer was a plain, average man, no different from a thousand other couriers he has seen throughout his life.
The book is bound in leather and printed on the fine paper I have used for all the recent volumes of my Histories. The typeset is the same, as well. Yet it was not printed on the press I keep in the hold of this ship, and neither, despite the clear use of my voice, is it written by me.
If this book is a hoax, it is an elaborate one. If it is not, if it is a true account of a history that has not taken place, then the questions about its authorship, printing, and arrival here are ones for which I have no answer.
—Onaedo, Year 1025