Earth Log 0015 How to Read an Earth Log

This entry is part of a small set of Project Reference entries that orient readers around the corpus rather than telling its story. Earth Log #0013, the first Register of Inscriptions, lists which entries exist and how to verify each one on chain. Earth Log #0014, the first Chapter Summaries, describes what each entry is about in plain prose. This entry explains how to read any of them. Together the three are intended to make the corpus navigable for a reader coming to it cold.

Every Earth Log follows the same shape. The shape is intentional. A reader who learns it once can read any entry with the same eye, and a reader far in the future can read an entry of which only fragments survive and still know what part of the original they are looking at.