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Witnesses

People whose memories remain when reality revises, displaces, or erases what they knew.

Definition

A Witness is a person who retains memory of a place, person, event, or history after surrounding reality has changed.

A Witness may remember:

  • A building that apparently never existed.
  • A person removed from every written record.
  • Two versions of the same day.
  • A road that once led somewhere else.
  • The original name of a misnamed thing.

Reliability

Witness memory can still be affected by fear, trauma, ordinary forgetting, and magical interference. It should be compared with physical evidence and other testimony.