The Almagest of Khushvant Sen

A kind of "living document", copies of this work reside in the libraries of every one of the Ten Cities, and many beyond. Scholars in each city are charged with maintaining their Almagests with new information as required, and with coming together every number of years in committee to reconcile their Almagests across the League (and beyond). The scholars of Nous are the chief drivers of this tradition, they being preeminent scholars and intellectuals among the Ten Cities, and the most obsessed with knowledge for its own sake. The eponymous Khushvant Sen was once one among their number, many years ago, and the originator of this peculiar idea of intercombining knowledge. Khushvant is considered a Saint among certain sages' guilds of the Ten Cities, especially in Nous.

There are of course times where little changes other than recondite quibbles; and yet, there are years where suddenly everything changes regarding certain facts, and vast revisions must be made to the Almagests. Not that former copies are destroyed, but rather, new copies are made and the historical scrolls sealed carefully away in cases to preserve them against decay so that historians can consult old records as necessary in their research contrary to the reality of the current world.

There have been times when such debates about what to change in the Almagests have broken into literal fistfights between scholars, which would be perhaps less surprising for those more in-the-know concerning the academic rivalries that lie behind such conferences. Nevertheless, most councils regarding changes are more peaceful than that.

An etymological note: "Almagest" means something like "the magisterium" or "the greatest" referencing the encyclopedia's place as the "master of encyclopedias".

As a "living document" and "magisterial encyclopedia" what is recorded so far is meager, but please bear with the Scribes. It was deemed helpful to translate the Almagest into the Chronicles for ease of access to additional information, but the process is, like all works of writing, a slow one. We hope the additional information is helpful, or at least interesting:

The Almagest of Ardha by Khushvant Sen, et al.