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'''Meta-History''' was a field of study concerning the [[history]] of [[meta-time]]. It was formally recognised by the [[Plutonian Academy]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}) | '''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 Tyrant]]s. [[Elemental History]] was similarly difficult yet had a lower risk of [[assassination]]. Meta-Historians studied [[Major Space-Time Rewrite]]s, including the [[First Great Rewrite|First]] and [[Last Great Rewrite]]s. They debated the most accurate [[taxonomy|taxonomies]] for various species including the [[Lesser Time Elemental|Lesser]] and [[Greater Time Elemental]]s. | |||
The study existed alongside the practice of [[Meta-Archaeology]], though largely sourced information from [[great library|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]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}) | |||
== Historiography == | |||
The earliest [[human]] Meta-Historians began in the early [[2000s]], and gave widespread attention to the [[2005]]-[[2007]] [[Russell T Davies (in-universe)|Davies]]-[[Julie Gardner (in-universe)|Gardner]] account of the [[Cosmic Revolution]], [[Lesser Time Elemental]]s 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 [[diary|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 source]]s" 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]]: {{cs|Love & War (short story)}}) | |||
Upon encountering a [[pair]] of [[Pinguis]], [[Bibendum]] and [[Puff Tremayne]], whose [[lives]] were unwritten following [[the Unravel]], [[Jenny Everywhere (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Jenny Everywhere]] could feel in her [[bone]]s that even their [[name]]s were meta-historical [[revision]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A World of Pure Unimagination (short story)}}) | Upon encountering a [[pair]] of [[Pinguis]], [[Bibendum]] and [[Puff Tremayne]], whose [[lives]] were unwritten following [[the Unravel]], [[Jenny Everywhere (A World of Pure Unimagination)|Jenny Everywhere]] could feel in her [[bone]]s that even their [[name]]s were meta-historical [[revision]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A World of Pure Unimagination (short story)}}) | ||
