History Fridge / TheCityWithoutMemory

** The fate of His Rulership isn’t stated in the epilogue since ''there are no big changes in his life''. Because, all things considered, he’s still the best option for a ruler. He knows the political situation (the rememberers, for all their cleverness, only rely on what their spies can spot), he knows the strengths and weaknesses of every fraction in his madhouse of a court, he has survived forty-four plots and three rebellions, and as he sees the rememberers are rising to power and getting help from outer space, he will be able make peace with them, since he is actually well-read himself and understands the value of knowledge.

** Veri-Meri’s memory in the epilogue is in a much better state than it appears to be. First, there is the rather confusing description of his memory-wipe execution, concluding with a DisneyDeath, and then the epilogue reveals he has survived after all. Second, there is that SuspiciouslySpecificDenial in the epilogue: he swears he remembers absolutely nothing (and by that moment the readers are aware of [[SarcasmMode the value]] of his sworn word). Finally, by the time of the ending, an actual cure to memory loss is found. Knowing him, he’ll figure it out even if he has really lost his memory (as the author has shown in other cases of AmnesiacResonance, he can hardly lose his brains). So either Veri-Meri has realized that [[CheatersNeverProsper his previous life hasn’t been that great]], or he’s simply biding his time for who knows what opportunities.

** Veri-Meri’s memory in the epilogue is in a much better state than it appears to be. First, there is the rather confusing description of his memory-wipe execution, concluding with a DisneyDeath, and then the epilogue reveals he has survived after all. Second, there is that SuspiciouslySpecificDenial in the epilogue: he swears he remembers absolutely nothing (and by that moment the readers are aware of [[SarcasmMode the value]] of his sworn word). Finally, by the time of the ending, in addition to AmnesiacResonance, an actual cure to memory loss is found. So either Veri-Meri has realized that [[CheatersNeverProsper his previous life hasn’t been that great]], or he’s simply biding his time for who knows what opportunities.

** How did the Moles make it out of the whole mess alive, after being actually sentenced to death and with their ZeroPercentApprovalRating reputation a close second to everybody's hatred for Veri-Meri or Bug the Celestial? However, their unicorns must have found them – the same unicorns who were last seen carrying off Brook and Squirrel. The rememberers are just as mad at the Moles as everyone else, but Squirrel could have interceded on their behalf (as she always does in the novel), and everyone at the Shelter wants to build bridges instead of making more war. That fits nicely with the brothers' whole BreakTheHaughty arc, and probably made them realize (or at least begin to) what a treasure they have for a sister.

** It’s doubtful that the kingdom of Radiculitis and the Shelter of the Rememberers are the only inhabited places on the planet. Most likely, there are still hundreds of such little countries scattered around the globe, and bringing them out of MedievalStasis might take much more than the six years that pass between the ending and the epilogue.
** What are the origins of the atani and the Altos birds? The Krinians in ''The End of Atlantis'' make no mention of them. Have they always existed on Krina? Or are they, for instance, the descendants of other aliens who were visiting Krina at the time of the grand memory wipe?
** Are the unicorns sentient? Centipede and her sons seem to be able to communicate with them, and they show remarkable intelligence (they run away because they don’t want the war, then they manage to find Squirrel in a large city, etc.).
** Dr. Crack is an atani with a Krinian name. How did he end up in the Shelter? It’s doubtful that he was stolen from his parents – the atani would have hardly been so nice with people who stole their kids (see the Brilliance section above), and the kidnapping, judging by what we know about the pygmies, would have been nigh impossible. Was he an abandoned or orphaned child? Or was he bought at a slave market by an agent of the Shelter? Or was he maybe a slave in a Krinian household who got kidnapped along with the master’s children? Or did he initially find the Shelter because he fell in love with one of the agents (now his wife)?

** Are the unicorns sentient? Centipede and her sons seem to be able to communicate with them, and they show remarkable intelligence (they run away because they don’t want the war, then they manage to find Squirrel in a large city, etc.).

** How did the Moles make it out of the whole mess alive, after being actually sentenced to death and with their ZeroPercentApprovalRating reputation a close second to everybody's hatred for Veri-Meri or Bug the Celestial? However, their unicorns must have found them – the same unicorns who were last seen carrying off Brook and Squirrel. The rememberers are just as mad at the Moles as everyone else, but Squirrel could have interceded on their behalf, and everyone at the Shelter wants to build bridges instead of making more war. That fits nicely with the brothers' whole BreakTheHaughty arc, and probably made them realize (or at least begin to) what a treasure they have for a sister.

* FridgeBrilliance: The fate of His Rulership isn’t stated in the epilogue since ''there are no big changes in his life''. Because, all things considered, he’s still the best option for a ruler. He knows the political situation (the rememberers, for all their cleverness, only rely on what their spies can spot), he knows the strengths and weaknesses of every fraction in his madhouse of a court, he has survived forty-four plots and three rebellions, and as he sees the rememberers are rising to power and getting help from outer space, he will be able make peace with them, since he is actually well-read himself and understands the value of knowledge.
* FridgeHorror: All the DeliberateValuesDissonance that gets glossed over for the sake of the series' younger readers.

** The slave market. Hundreds of atani families get broken apart due to being sold to different owners. And the prospective buyers frown at the high prices because atani slaves ''die like flies''.

** It’s doubtful that the kingdom of Radiculitis and the Shelter of the Rememberers are the only inhabited places on the planet. Most likely, there are still hundreds of such little countries, and bringing them out of MedievalStasis might take much more than the six years that pass between the ending and the epilogue.