Meta-History
Meta-History was a field of study concerning the history of meta-time. It was formally recognised by the Plutonian Academy and continued on for centuries after.
One of its most difficult subfields was Tyrannical History which concerned the Hyperspace Tyrants. Elemental History was similarly difficult yet had a lower risk of assassination. Meta-Historians studied Major Space-Time Rewrites, including the First and Last Great Rewrites. They debated the most accurate taxonomies for various species including the Lesser and Greater Time Elementals.
The study existed alongside the practice of Meta-Archaeology, though largely sourced information from great libraries such as the Plume Coteries' Library or Babbling Bibliothèque of Gendar. It was subject to, and opposed, vandalism of meta-time as well as retrotemporal citogenesis, a highly frowned-upon act committed by some self-serving Meta-Historians. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
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The earliest human Meta-Historians began in the early 2000s, and gave widespread attention to the 2005-2007 Davies-Gardner account of the Cosmic Revolution, Lesser Time Elementals and the Last Lightbringer.
At some point before 2323, Meta-Historians studied the concept of Adversarial Motivation, but were set back decades when they found several diaries had been misfiled and incorrectly labelled as alter-universal.
In 2323 Olivia Kagg Waldermein argued in Love & War: A Meta-Historical Investigation of the Dawn of the Cosmic Revolution that a "facile reliance on primary sources" had weakened the rigour of the study, and called on Meta-Historians to venture "beyond the boundaries of texts marked out as relating to the Cosmic Revolution in its numberless aspects." Demonstrating this, she reconstructed a narrative of events that occurred around the Cathedral of Time prior to the Revolution. (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])
Upon encountering a pair of Pinguis, Bibendum and Puff Tremayne, whose lives were unwritten following the Unravel, Jenny Everywhere could feel in her bones that even their names were meta-historical revisions. (PROSE: A World of Pure Unimagination [+]Loading...["A World of Pure Unimagination (short story)"])
