The Oracle’s Library is not merely legend—it is the astral architecture of memory itself, a cosmic library that exists beyond the Rift and records every moment, thought, and decision across the multiverse. In the Starfall Galaxy, where the Rift-Storm shattered worlds, the Oracle’s Library is both treasure and torment: a perfect archive in a galaxy defined by forgetting.
You are an Archive Recorder, someone whose mind is permanently linked to this infinite repository. Whether you were born with this connection, initiated through a ritual by the Azul Archive, or accidentally touched something in a Primordial ruin that opened your third eye to the cosmos, you now carry the burden and gift of remembering everything the galaxy forgot.
When you close your eyes, you don't just see darkness—you see threads. Luminous filaments stretching across astral space, each one a memory, a decision point, a fork in time. You can follow them backward, watching history unfold in reverse, or sideways, glimpsing parallel realities that never quite coalesced. The Rift muddies these visions, fragmenting the Record with paradoxes and temporal echoes, but you've learned to navigate the noise.
Archive Recorder Background
Source Galaxy Guide pg. 97
Your mind is mystically linked to the Oracle’s Archive, an astral repository of all knowledge and memory. You might be a member of the Azure Archive.
Choose two attribute boosts. One must be to Intelligence or Wisdom, and one is a free attribute boost.
You're trained in the Occultism skill, and a Lore skill of your choice. You gain the Assurance skill feat.
The Azure Archive
Most Archive Recorders either belong to or are watched by the Azure Archive, a faction obsessed with collecting all knowledge. They maintain hidden vaults across the galaxy—crystalline data-cores, psychically imprinted stones, even cloned brains encoded with cultural memory—all in a desperate attempt to make forgetting impossible.
The Archive views Recorders as living relics: walking backups of the cosmic database, invaluable for retrieving lost knowledge but also dangerously unpredictable. After all, someone who can access the Oracle’s Library can potentially rewrite their own past—or learn secrets powerful factions would kill to keep buried.
Signature Customs
Memory Anchors: Recorders often carry physical objects tied to important memories—not for sentimental reasons, but as navigation beacons for finding specific entries in the Record. A stone from your homeworld helps you access memories of that place; a friend's gift lets you trace their timeline.
The Headache: Chronic migraines are an occupational hazard. Your brain is processing information from across time and space simultaneously, and sometimes the bandwidth overloads. Many Recorders develop rituals—meditation, specific drugs, or psychic dampeners—to manage the sensory overload.
Timemarking: You unconsciously timestamp everything. "I met you 3,247 Yoms ago at 14:32 Standard Cycle." It unnerves people, but precision is survival when your mind spans millennia.
Variants
Gap Diver: Specializes in accessing pre-Gap records, navigating the corrupted, fragmented memories from before the cosmic amnesia. High risk, high reward—and high chance of madness.
Future-Seer: Claims to access not just past memories but potential futures recorded in the Akashic threads. Viewed as heretics by the Akashic Society, who insist the Record only documents what has happened, not what might.
Memory Thief: Uses their connection to the Record not for research, but for espionage and blackmail, extracting embarrassing or incriminating memories from targets and selling them to the highest bidder.
Non-Combat Applications
Forensic Reconstruction: You can use your Occultism training and Archive connection to reconstruct crime scenes by accessing psychic impressions left in objects and locations—reading the "memory" of a weapon or a bloodstained floor.
Lost Knowledge Retrieval: Your Lore skill, combined with your link to the Record, makes you invaluable for deciphering extinct languages, identifying forgotten technologies, or locating planets that officially "never existed" before the Gap.
Temporal Corroboration: In a galaxy where history was rewritten, your ability to verify what actually happened makes you both sought-after and feared by historians, legal systems, and anyone with something to hide.
Societal Impact
Archive Recorders occupy a strange space in Starfall society. The Chronologists Guild views them with professional jealousy—Recorders access memory without needing Metronomes or temporal engines, which threatens the Guild's monopoly on time-related knowledge. Corporations hire Recorders as industrial archaeologists and patent verifiers, while governments deploy them as living lie detectors and historical auditors.
But there's a darker side. The Rift-Storm Cataclysm left scars in the Archive Record itself—corrupted entries, false memories, and "ghost data" that seems to predict futures that never arrive. Some Recorders have gone mad trying to reconcile contradictory records, while others claim to have seen evidence that the Gap wasn't an accident—it was a deliberate deletion, and the entity that performed it is still out there, watching.
Adventure Hooks
The Stolen Memory: A wealthy patron hires you to retrieve a specific memory from the Akashic Record—the moment their spouse disappeared during the Rift-Storm. But when you access the memory, you discover it's been redacted, replaced with static. Someone is editing the cosmic library.
The False Record: You've been having visions of events that never happened—a battle that was never fought, a planet that was never settled. But then you meet someone who remembers the same "false" history. Are you accessing memories from a parallel timeline that bled through the Rift, or is someone planting fake memories in the Record itself?
The Gap Scholar: The Azure Archive offers you an impossible task: descend into the deepest layers of the Record and find out what happened to the Progenitors. They warn you that every previous attempt has resulted in the Recorder either dying, going insane, or returning with no memory of what they saw.
The Archive Recorder background is for characters who carry the weight of cosmic memory, navigating the thin line between enlightenment and madness in a galaxy that desperately wants to remember—and desperately fears what it might find.
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