A maester's vanity is his footnotes, and a maester's honesty is his corrections. This moon past, the Chronicle's fact-checkers caught and mended three errors that had stood uncorrected in the archive, and we set them down here plainly rather than quietly scrub the parchment and say nothing.
The first concerned the Sack of King's Landing at the close of Robert's Rebellion. An earlier draft of our account let the burning and butchery inside the city read as a single lord's unilateral act, when the histories are plainer than that — the city was taken by more than one hand, and blame for what followed belongs to more than one man. The entry has been rewritten to reflect the fuller record.
The second concerned Braavos. Our essay on the Free Cities had let the ninth city's founding drift toward a date it does not hold in the histories; the record has been checked against the sources and set right, along with the note that the city's founding was an act against Valyria, not an outpost of it — a distinction earlier phrasing blurred.
The third was smaller but no less worth mending: the wedding at Whitewalls, staged as cover for a rebel muster in the Blackfyre line, had been misdated in one of our entries and now reads correctly as the year 212 after Aegon's Conquest, matching both our own Dunk and Egg chronicle and the wider history of the Blackfyre Rebellion.
None of this is remarkable in itself — histories get corrected; that is what makes them histories and not scripture. What we want on record is the method: every entry in this archive is checked against the published books, and when a checker's second pass finds a fault, the fault is fixed and noted, not buried. That discipline, more than any single fact, is the thing the Chronicle asks you to trust.
The full account of how this archive is built, sourced, and corrected — and who stands behind it — is kept on our about page, open to any reader who wants to see the ledger for themselves.