Basics 101

[Scot Storm]

What about you?

[Lord Cyclohexane]

As it's portrayed in "I, Strahd" and a few other tidbits of in-character text, the memories of Ravenloft natives typically seem to be altered along with the landscape, when a brand-new domain pops up in the Core. Only outlanders and darklords appear to be innately exempted from this revisionist-history effect; the Great Upheaval wasn't unusual in that geography changed, but rather in that ordinary people remembered that it had been altered so drastically.

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Hmmm, that really brings into question the Kartakass History section in Gazetteer 1 then. Since usually the memories are altered (and I'm assuming all historical documentation written in the preceding timeframe) but that it *didn't* happen during the Grand Conjunction, that makes me wonder about the Historical note that S makes. She notices that the Kartakan history tells about how Invidia had previously invaded Kartakass but that the two had never bordered each other, ever. I wonder if, instead of S's theory, if actually Kartakass and Invidia HAD bordered at some point and only Invidians' memories were changed whereas Kartakass kept the true memories of how things were.