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| - | HIDDEN HISTORY
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| - | The Shogunate tried to destroy records of Whitewall’s
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| - | glorious origin as Ondar Shambal and paint its
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| - | Celestial Exalted residents as megalomaniacs, tyrants
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| - | and perverts. When the Syndics took over, they purged
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| - | the city archives of these false tales, but also of a good
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| - | deal of authentic Shogunate history. During both
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| - | purges, however, people loyal to the old regime hid
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| - | books that supported the history they believed.
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| - | More of Ondar Shambal survives than one might
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| - | expect. The Shogunate’s founders feared to demolish
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| - | too much of the Unconquered Sun’s own city or to
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| - | remove too much of the city’s old religious imagery.
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| - | Instead, the usurpers filled carvings and covered murals
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| - | and mosaics with white concrete. For instance, the
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| - | city’s famous walls used to bear carved scenes of the
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| - | Unconquered Sun’s deeds and allegories of his rule in
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| - | Heaven. People who recycle the stone from damaged
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| - | buildings (mostly in Foretown) often find old concrete
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| - | flaking off to reveal bits of inscriptions or bas-reliefs.
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| - | The Whitewall College of Architecture carefully records
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| - | these architectural fragments. So far, the Syndics
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| - | find it politically inadvisable to attempt widespread
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| - | removal of the masking concrete and restoration of
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| - | the images beneath.
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