28th Prairial, 1836: Arriving at the site, we took stock of the preparations of the previous season. The precautions taken to preserve the scriptorium and library in the offseason were successful. We have already discovered several additional copies of The Little Book of Kusinne.
Hieronymus’s offseason dig at the battlefield near Aksu proved just as fruitful. He posits, based on the sparrow-markings on the iron weapons, that it dates to the conquest of Aksu by Kuchina in the first century, before their unification into one realm.
As you know, my contention has been that the legendary Queen Fadya, who supposedly undertook this unification, was clearly mythological; perhaps stories of a local guardian spirit were used to create a propaganda for national unification. After all, the stories of the different religious factions mourning at her funeral side-by-side is clearly intended as a metaphor for the triumph of political power over the local religious cults.