People
A people with no written record; what is told of them passes from mouth to mouth.
This is the heading I could find least about — and the scribe says its scarcity is no accident.
They keep no written record. What is told passes from mouth to mouth and changes as it passes. The copies the scribe gathered do not agree with one another. — A Treatise Upon Devran, leaf 12b
The single thread he leaves: the oldest story of every nation, followed far enough back, comes round to them. He does not write what that means — he says he does not know. — A Treatise Upon Devran, leaf 12b
To write that I do not know is better than to appear to.
Translator's note. In their own tongue the plural is Hızırpareler. I use the singular as a collective — the Hızırpare — as English does with the Inuit or the Fremen. The word carries pare, a piece or a fragment; adding an English ending to it seemed to break something.
Where they live, how many they are, whether they still exist. To fill this entry I would have to search for something that was never written down — and I have not worked out how.