The Mireglass Folk tell that the faction began after the Sinking of Nine Lanterns, when nine villages were swallowed by a single season of poisoned floodwater. In the aftermath, a marsh-scribe named Veyla Thorne gathered survivors, salvagers, oathbreakers, and wet-handed priestesses into one uneasy circle. Her insight was simple and brutal: in a land that changes its shape every tide, memory is a weapon, and whoever records the land decides who belongs to it. She founded the first Ledger Hall in a half-collapsed eelhouse and assigned each survivor a duty, not by birth but by what they could preserve. The faction's early years were defined by rescue, mapping, and the recovery of identity tokens from drowned homes. Their first major triumph came when they proved that a neighboring lord had claimed Mireglass peatlands by citing forged boundary stones. Their watershed moment came during the Night of Split Reflections, when Veyla ordered the burning of a cache of maps to prevent an invasion route from becoming common knowledge. The choice saved thousands, but it also taught the faction that truth, once found, could be more dangerous than ignorance. Since then, they have lived as custodians of memory, law, and dangerous secrets, half public archive and half hidden government.