Ludoh

Ludoh /'luːdə/ was a prominent historian and writer who lived in Tarnaria in the 1st century of the second revolution. While she left a significant literary legacy, especially the part that describes the lives of others, surprisingly little is known about her. She was born in Deeras and died in Asdoh. Virtually nothing is recorded about her life in between.

Ludoh's work is one of the most important accounts of the history of early Tarnaria. Her main focus was the history of Toor and, specifically, the Dolysoh dynasty. Unlike the works of another prominent historian of the era, Porteek, Ludoh's writing is considered to be less reliable, although independent evidence does suggest that the gist of her historical narrative is correct. However, she tends to be more compromising when it comes to ambiguous evidence, opting to pick a hypothesis and present it as fact. She also never cites her sources. Coupled with the fact that most of her works go into the most intricate detail of the inner workings of the ruling class, the reliability of her account is suspect, unless she herself had direct access to royalty.

The latter is suggested by Porteek, who believes that Ludoh might have been as confident as she was in her conclusions, because she either participated in some of these events herself or, when dealing with the history of the dynasty, received accounts from the members of the family. However, in none of her writing does Ludoh ever state her role or even if Ludoh was her real name.

Apart from historical writings, Ludoh left a whole body of fiction, mostly dealing with romanticized accounts of the Dawn. She also wrote down some of the earliest Xaewoon strons, which allowed modern historians to compare them to the records of the canon throughout the ages and conclude the high accuracy of the Xaewoon oral tradition.