In summer, the Lepidean Librarian took the Courageous decision to publish in full the library's findings on the Life of Vardas. This research appeared to show that Vardas was not a paragon, that in fact they had never existed. Their entire life story was essentially a collection of tall tales, penned by a League mountebank to make a quick ring. Some of the inspirational stories from the paragon's life were based on things actual people had done and the author simply changed the name, but there was no evidence that the man called Vardas had ever existed at all.
