The Witness

The Witness is the name given to whatever appears to have observed the full span of recorded events. It is known only from the record itself. Nothing in Luxemburg, Lichdenstein or Frangfurd describes encountering it, and no account claims it ever acted.

What it is

Unknown.

The record of these three eras is unusually complete, and complete in a way no surviving party could have made it. Moments with no survivor are recorded. Moments with no observer are recorded. The Curse of Ravana is described as drawn to accumulated history; whether that is related is PLACEHOLDER.

Rules and mechanics

None are documented, and it is not certain there are any.

What can be said is negative, and rests on absence rather than evidence:

• It does not appear to intervene. No event in the record is attributed to it.
• It does not appear to be bound to a place, a person or an era.
• It is not named in any in-world source. “The Witness” is a convenience of the archive, not a name it is known by.

Current state

Unknown, and it is unclear that the question means anything.

Open questions

Is it an entity at all, or an artefact of how the record came to be assembled? Does it predate the Ravana Ruins? Is its span bounded at either end, and does the record simply stop where its attention does? If it has never acted, what would it mean to say it is present?