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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. Later Everchard context establishes that the Twins were responsible for the operation, while the maggots or worms were specifically the source of the memory alteration. The Twins were The Mother, Betrayer’s children and were working with Garadule.

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.
  • The maggots/worms were the specific source of the memory alteration; killing them restored affected memories.
  • Outsiders, The Chorus, and some party members resisted or recovered memories differently.
  • The Twins were The Mother, Betrayer’s children, were working with Garadule, stole people, altered them with Carnomancy in the same way they altered pigs and sheep, and used the missing townsfolk to attack the Barrier.
  • The process overlapped with animal-human transformations, wagon abductions, and Barrier attacks because those were parts of the same Twin-run operation.
  • The townsfolk who could be saved were transported back toward Everchard in the wagons; a Hartwall militia healer partially restored them on the road.

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 later clarified as Twin-run Carnomancy and abduction tied to The Mother, Betrayer and Garadule.
  • day-04: Restorations recover some victims and memories.
  • day-05: Killing the maggot/worm source at the Barrier attack causes affected memories to return.
  • day-08: The saveable transformed townsfolk are transported back toward Everchard, and Hartwall militia are briefed on the mind wipe, citizen stealing, missing militia, and Barrier attacks.

Open Questions

  • Did any maggots/worms or Twin-created memory effects remain active after the Barrier attack and Musher were defeated?