By the time Essei went into space, the Orumantic Writings were studied, where they were studied at all, as the records of an earlier and more superficial age.

The Orum were a legend. Zzoor was a creation myth. The Tosai were a story told about what Cogum might once have been.

The Writings were not destroyed. They were moved, in this period, to a single archive. Its location is not given here.