#absolute record

Primarily as a framing device but not always.

Like the Atanatarion (and MANY others) in middle earth. (Like the Red Book in which Bilbo Baggins wrote of his adventure)

Or the Bornstellar Relation in Halo, along with the Rubicon testimony and the records of Catalog Triad #879 (scattered on Onyx and Earth).

All serving as framing narratives for the Forerunner Trilogy.

Another example would be Adjutant Revendicate’s 20-year documentation of almost the entirety of Halo lore, which they relayed to Invariant Bias at the Absolute Record as a contingency, also serving in turn as a framing device for the 2022 Halo Encyclopedia.

Prior to the arrival of the Covenant barbarians, those who would come to make up the 343 clans of the Imperial Court were warlords who feuded among each other.