Veristitalian
Scholars who chase the truth of the past, building unbiased accounts of what happened so that it can inform what comes next.
A veristitalian is a scholar who goes after the truth of the past, assembling accounts as free of bias as they can be made so that what happened can be used to reason about what to do next. The discipline sits close to atheism. Jasnah Kholin, pressed on her lack of faith by King Taravangian, describes it not as a disease but as a belief in her own abilities, in her family, and in what her parents taught her. Refusing the teachings of the Devotaries is not the same as discarding right and wrong. When Taravangian holds that the Almighty determines what is right, she answers that mathematics, morality, and human will all stand independent of him.
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