It Occurred that I hadn't said elsewhere that the History we're often told is Not the history that actually happened. Viz: the events we're told of are only one side of the tale, and the other only becomes known to us in later years. A Good example of this is the tale of Le Quesnoy, a little French village saved by New Zealanders in World War One.
So impressed by the actions of the NZ Troops twenty years earlier, the German Commandant of the Town permitted the daily ceremony of Remembrance to continue, essentially unbroken, throughout WW2, until the Allies captured the town in late 1944.
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Of unspoken History, and why humans don't recall.
Men -- humans -- make history and relate it, ultimately at the behest of God(s) we barely have the strength to believe in, or memory of.
Nor yet should it be thought that humans actually remember..... they don't, and never have.
THAT is the function of the Immortals, the Vampyri, the Winged Ones, and the Drachae. Humans are both food and herd to any of the foregoing, and shall ever remain so: That is the price paid for the Privilege of having your Race's Memories Held Precious by Another Race. If Nothing Else, REMEMBER That, humanity.
