The Visit to the Lantern Archive

Name: The Visit to the Lantern Archive
Date: Rainmoot 30, Year 684
Description: Edran descended into the Lantern Archive beneath Greyharbor's weathered lighthouse, where the sea-salt air grows thick with the must of centuries. In the Archive's dim halls, lit by oil lamps that cast trembling shadows, he sought forbidden cartography—maps of memory that charted the contours of forgotten roads, documents detailing cities the world had chosen to erase, knowledge that slipped like water through the hands of those who tried to hold it. Orlan Vey, the Archive's keeper, a figure as austere as the limestone walls around him, permitted the inquiry. Yet some visits leave marks that must be scrubbed away. In the days that followed, Edran's name vanished from the visitor ledger, expunged as cleanly as if he had never come at all. The Archive has always known how to forget what it chooses.