Oseudan Oral History

Oseudan Oral History refers to the methodology of verbal record keeping held as tradition by historians of the Oseudan Empire.

Origins
Despite the nearly legendary writing and calligraphy skills of the Courts of the Oseuda Empire, history has never been recorded in a written form. As the history of rulership, as well as that of land and property ownership, is considered a Divine Right, it is considered sacreligious to record such information in a form that can be easily tampered with or even destroyed.

The small group of sanctioned historians (known as Imperial Keepers) retained both by local lords and by the Empress herself are primarily charged with maintaining the oral history and dissemination of information throughout the Empire. As history is passed along through a highly codified set of rituals to Regional Keepers and shared with no less than one thousand such Keepers (Imperial, Regional and Local) in any generation, discrepencies are very rare.

Conflict Resolution
Any time a discrepency in the history is found, a convocation of no less than ten Keepers, with a minimum of one Imperial, one Regional and one Local Keeper attending. Such convocations are usually held at either temples or shrines to Arvana Sanys, preferably those with some form of veracity confirming enchantments. Each Keeper then calls to mind the relevant piece of history, speaking it to an impartial civilian recruited from the nearest settlement. If more than one conflict is found in such a convocation, the assembled Keepers sequentially speak the history to one another until the discrepencies are resolved.

Due to the highly sacred nature of oral history, anyone found deliberately altering the history or found unworthy of the role of Keeper is offered a choice. Death of body or death of memory. This choice, barring divine intervention or magics beyond the normal ken is permanent.