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Erindath of Sennos

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Dwarven annalist of the Age of Craggus; reads every winter as a god loosening his grip.

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Erindath wrote from within the Sennos civic-hall archives, a Latin-branch dwarf tradition, more accustomed to ledgers and civic records than mythography. He was not a priest; he described himself as an annalist, which in Sennos meant a man who wrote down what he could verify and labeled everything else as rumor. His career spans roughly three centuries of the Age of Craggus, from the early reborn-world consolidations through to the Laughing Plague's first recorded outbreaks, and his multi-volume Annals of the Reborn World remains the most cited source for that era's political and theological history.

His cultural bias runs deep and largely unconscious. For Erindath, the Age of Craggus is the natural order reasserting itself after the chaos of the Long Winter. He worships Craggus, the first daemon of the reborn world, with the steady devotion of a man who simply cannot imagine the universe running on any other principle. This colors everything. He frames the Laughing Plague's destruction of Craggus-worship as a cosmic aberration rather than a contingent historical event, and he attributes more divine intention to Craggus's early acts than the evidence supports. Human-authored accounts of the same period he treats as secondary at best; he suspects them of flattering their own culture at the expense of dwarven contributions to the reborn world.

His era is the Age of Craggus in full: the founding of the first post-Winter polities, the spread of Craggus worship across races, the prosperity that preceded the Laughing Plague, and the plague itself. He is the essential dwarven voice for this period, and his pro-Craggus framing is so consistent that later scholars can largely filter it out, which makes him paradoxically reliable for the underlying facts he records.

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