# Problems on Writing the History of Sigmarite People ## By Wolfram Gamma, of the University of Theodore, Gray City, Stephens World, the Conrad System, Barony of Sybil, County of Hugo, Wolfram Soveriengty, United Federation of Takarah, 83379 ### Introductions There are several key problems when writing the history of the Sigmarite people, in this essay I shall attempt to lay out only some of the most surface level issues with each era of study. First through it is necessary to explain what the eras of Sigmarite study are. ### The Synthetic Triparition There are two major schools of though on demarcating the Sigmarites. I shall first describe the more recent method developed by Lord Curzon Lewer-Moffit of the United Federation of Earth[^1] in 69289 focuses on a sythetic tripartition of Sigmariate history into the Early Years which stretched from when Sigmar awoke as Sigmar following the First Sol War, and the Witcher conquest of the Milky Way. The second period follows directly after, stretching from the first great journey into the Sigmarites Second great journey, when Emder Frederikar led his fleet of the remnant of the Germuhsian Empire to the Rhineland, during which the first Otar Codex was created. The third period then stretched from the time in the Rhineland to its destruction. In this synthetic account Lord Lewer-Moffit declared that with the the destruction of the Rhineland, the Sigmarite people as a united people were no more, and whatever was left was to be but a great-descendent. This was a part of Lord Lewer-Moffit's overall thesis of the coming death of all the ancient great powers, a theory which has been been proven false by the test of history. However, while the generalized theory has failed, there is still a great deal of scholarly debate on the validity of his thesis as it applies to the modern Sigmarian people. To understand this, one need only look at the description of the breakup of the Sigmarian people after the destruction of the Rhineland Galaxy described by Konrad von Springstein in his ground-breaking article and subsequent lecture series "On the Destruction of the Rhineland and the Splitting of the Sigmarian People", first published July 26th, 83427. Between the yet uncontacted world ships, the various mass groups of refugees which have since integrated into every other nation (besides of course the United Augmented Republic), the formation of Venezuelar, and the recent splitting of Deutchrea into Duetchrea, Germushia, and Polandskia, never mind the fracturing of the Sigmarian identity into the Sigmorian, Catholic Sigmarism and its various offshoots, Traditional Sigmarism, Lawgarian, Free Sigmarism, and the splitting within Orthodox Sigmarism between Venezularian Sigmarism and Germushian (which is really Deutchrean) Sigmarism truly make it difficult to deny the continued validity of the Lewer-Moffit thesis. ### The Natural Method While the Lewer-Moffit thesis in the specific - the death of the great power of Germushia and the breaking up of the Sigmarian people - may not yet be disproven. But the overarching tri-partition of Sigmarian history is still a synthetic account, created within the Federation to suit Federation needs. The alternative method is to understand Sigmarian history as most followers of the Church do: as measured by the codices. To understand the History of the Sigmarian people, and Deutchrea, one need only read *The Epitomes of the Codices of the Church of Sigmar*, translated into our language by the Federations own Dr. Woflgang Von Motzarson of the University of Deutchgar. For further study, one could turn to Dr. Oswold Shumpeters' *Commentary on* *The Epitomes of the Codices of the Church of Sigmar*, which includes in its appendix Dr. Shumpeters' own epitome of the Codex Aurelius. The core of the commentary is less a running commentary of the work, than providing a historical framework for many of the Epitomes, drawing out extra facets, and specifically relating these events to Federation history. One essential aspect in understanding the codices is that these documents are religious and historical works. They are designed to be read in order, and build on one another. Each codex is composed of three parts or sections: the history, the institutions relevant to understanding that history, and the laws relevant to understand that history, and the institutions. These sections are further subdivded into 'books' by various authors - in the case of every codex after Sigmar's, the common theme was to create 'books' by collating the various important works, laws, and legal descisionus by various justices into small volumes, and then combined those volumes by chronological periods titled 'books' by the relevant Emder or Sigmarian. This latter division is necessary because in times when the Germushian empires has historically collapsed, the Church has remained the uniting force of Germushian history. Peopled rallied to it, even when the empires turned to republics, and those republics disintegrated. The Church united. When times of need arose the various principaplities and nations of hte disintigrated repbulic united together under their historic form as an Empire. This epmire remained storng until over time the religious ferver whcih untied hte people is overocme by cultural fervor for the Germushian ideal. Then the Empire begins to slip and a republic forms. Once in Republican from the Church soon after suffers a recession in power and social importance. This, combined with the republican form fo Germushian government favouring the idenitty of hte various province/principalities of hte republic leads to the central governemnt fading, and the provinces growing strong on their own. They remain strong on their own until their interla greed and disorder drives them apart, and slowly people are brougt back into the Church. Through they church they are reawoken to their Germushian cultural connections, and eventually, as a time of crsisi begins to develop, a new empire forms, the whole thing repeating itself. The cycle of Germushian history embodied in the codices, first properly laid to form in the codex Gadrellar, but which remained a recurring cycle throughout Germushian history, of disperate states to empire to republic to disperate states united in religion and broad culturlal identity, until united back again into an Empire. --- - [^1]: Lewer-Moffit was the 273 year holder of the renowned Grayson Chair of Inter-Cultural & Hat history, held by head of the historic cultural history department at the University of Red River on the planet Rannock, in the Charleswood system, in the Pembina Barony, in the Riel County of the Lewer Sovereignty