The Edict of Perpetual Fact

The Edict of Perpetual Fact is the philosophical bedrock of the Dwarven Abbey’s modern authority. It is not a law concerning mortal conduct, but a geological declaration defining the nature of recorded existence itself. This core doctrine, codified during the Ascendancy of the Cog, asserts that any information certified and physically etched into the official archives is not merely a record of the truth, but is the chronological truth itself. The Edict functions as a massive, conceptual Seal of Orthodoxy, ensuring the institutional narrative remains monolithic and impervious to external stresses. Its purpose is to insulate the collective dwarven psyche from the chaotic uncertainty that defined the Age of Lingering Echoes. It forcibly stabilizes the deep currents of history, eliminating the psychological fault lines caused by contradictory testimonies salvaged from the Vault of Whispers. Any external knowledge, particularly volatile prophecy or undocumented lore like the Prophetic Scrolls, is immediately rendered null and void, an act of intentional narrative suppression. The Edict, therefore, is the administrative equivalent of a perpetual deep-core anchor, holding the established reality against the inevitable entropic decay of the Great Unmaking.