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The Well of Ascension · 2007
I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The inscription makes reliable memory a physical problem. A convincing message may be useless if the medium itself can be changed without its reader knowing.
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The opening epigraph of The Well of Ascension begins Kwaan’s inscription, discovered at the Conventical of Seran. Sazed’s investigation makes the material carrying a text crucial to whether that text can be trusted. The warning anticipates Ruin’s ability to alter records that are not set in metal.
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- Chapter 1 epigraph, opening of Kwaan’s inscription discovered at the Conventical of Seran. — reference 1Chapter 1 epigraph, opening of Kwaan’s inscription discovered at the Conventical of Seran.; selected line and sceneReference checked
- Chapter 1 epigraph, opening of Kwaan’s inscription discovered at the Conventical of Seran. — reference 2Chapter 1 epigraph, opening of Kwaan’s inscription discovered at the Conventical of Seran.; selected line and sceneReference checked
- Chapter 1 epigraph, opening of Kwaan’s inscription discovered at the Conventical of Seran. — reference 3Chapter 1 epigraph, opening of Kwaan’s inscription discovered at the Conventical of Seran.; selected line and sceneReference checked
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