"Memories" Charles the wizard explained to his perplexed student Timothy "aren't yours exclusively but part of a larger web that includes everyone and every thing that was witness to the event and that web must therefore stretch not just backwards but forwards too.
"Why forwards?" asked Timothy
"What we regard as history is a record - highly selective but still - of past events and as time passes some very memorable events may become myth and legend, highly distorted no doubt but usually based upon a kernel of truth which is why they persist in being retold as stories rather than remembered as factual records.
The book that you saw in the Elven Tower was a list of coordinates which when entered into their Time Mirror shows what occured elsewhen as they call it because they often can not locare the time or place exactly or indeed at all.
So to spare you a long and tedious explanation, what caught your eye and obviously your ear, is a song that celebrates a righteous ruler who purportedly became venerated for his generosity to those most in need. A similar legend is still extant in the mountains of the Eastern continent except that it tells a different story in which their religion was kept alive by the decisive action of your good king's brother who murdered Wenceslas at their mothers behest."
"The List Keeper Liet told me he doubted that there was any truth to either tale and he'd only preserved the coordinates because he enjoyed the songs from that era which he was sure lay far into the future." said Timothy.
"He knew this from the musical instruments shown and heard and hoped it might inspire me to try and make something similar."
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