concept

Everchard Memory Tampering

Summary

Everchard memory tampering rewrote people, places, records, and absences into convenient forms while hiding missing animals, homeless people, militia, and transformed victims.

Known Details

  • People forgot Gelissa, Isabella, Malcolm, Sarah, homeless people, missing militia, and sometimes locations.
  • Keys changed number at Cider Inn Cider.
  • Census and farm ledgers altered or failed to match memories.
  • The Chorus explained that memory magic changed memories into convenient forms.
  • Outsiders, The Chorus, and some party members resisted or recovered memories differently.
  • The process overlapped with animal-human transformations, wagon abductions, and Barrier attacks.

Timeline

  • day-01: Memory instability becomes undeniable through Gelissa, keys, militia, and Malcolm.
  • day-02: Thornhollows records and Sarah’s erasure deepen the mystery.
  • day-03: The Hostel, wagons, and transformed victims expose the operation.
  • day-04: Restorations recover some victims and memories.
  • day-07: Outside militia are briefed on the mind wipe and citizen stealing.

Open Questions

  • What is the magic word or mechanism?
  • Who maintained the effect after Musher and the twins were confronted?