#bornstellar relation

[dougielombax]

Towards the end of Halo: Cryptum, I get the impression that Bornstellar just couldn’t go on recalling and retelling the events he experienced as he found it to be too damn painful.

Im not complaining, it makes sense.

Which may explain why his retelling of events as seen in the Bornstellar relation more or less stops with his arrival at the Greater Ark.

[dougielombax]

I love it when a story exists as its own text in universe.

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.

Brilliant stuff.