Ministry of War & Conflict | Archives Wing, Ironbind Tower, Drosgate
“Ink remembers what men forget.”
The Office of Martial Records and Regimental Histories is the heart of the Kingdom’s memory in war—tasked with preserving the official histories, rosters, honors, dispatches, and traditions of Eyehasseen’s armed forces. From battlefield dispatches to the stitching of a regiment’s banner, every detail is archived with reverence.
This Office answers not to sword or rank, but to truth, and its halls echo with quiet reverence, leather-bound scrolls, and drums that remember the rhythm of every battle ever fought.
📚 Responsibilities
- Maintaining the Book of Regimental Lineage, updated each year with service, honors, disbandments, and revivals
- Issuing battlefield commendations, awards, and honors by authority of the Crown
- Recording oral accounts from veterans, often by candlelight and ink by hand
- Preserving pre-Crown military orders, including the annals of city militias and forgotten pike guilds
- Maintaining the Scroll of Commanding Officers, listing every general by year, campaign, and outcome
🥁 Key Archives and Collections
📖 The Book of Living Veterans
An ever-growing tome enchanted to glow faintly near any page concerning a living veteran, used during reunions and death rites. Its pages are never turned lightly.
🪖 The Battle Scroll Repository
Scrolls submitted by field scribes during or immediately after combat. Includes inked maps, casualty notes, heroism citations, and unit psalms.
📜 The Directory of the Fallen
Alphabetized by regiment, this collection includes final letters, unfinished diary entries, and dispatches found on the fallen. Each is placed in a glass reliquary, wrapped in the regiment’s color.
🪶 Regimental Traditions & Songs
- The Ledger of Marches — every officially sanctioned regimental song is catalogued here, along with composer, tempo, and wartime use
- The Ceremony of the Torn Banner — occurs when a regiment is retired; its standard is torn in two, one half returned to the army, the other placed in the Vault of Service
- Ink and Bugle Day — commemorated once per year, on which scribes and drummers switch roles for a single ceremonial watch
🏅 Publications of Note
- Marches of the Realm: A History in Sound and Step
- Brass & Blood: A Comparative Study of Regimental Cultures
- Honored and Forgotten: The Disbanded Orders of the Early Kingdom
- Battle Under Moonlight: A Compendium of Night Campaigns
- The Silence After the Horn: Memoirs from the Field-Scribes of Dustmoor
🏛️ Visitation and Access
Portions of the archives are open to the public for research, memorials, and veteran tracing. The deeper halls, including the Scroll of Secrets and Regimental Dreamlogs, require a royal seal.