The Falernian Legacy

Will anyone ever know the true facts concerning the puzzling chain of supernatural coincidence surrounding the so-called "The Falernian Legacy?" It seems unlikely. A discreet shroud of silence has been secretively drawn over these mysterious and clandestine events by those who claim, truly or falsely, that they were indirectly involved at one time or another. And indeed, alas, we do not even know who these shadowy claimants are or were since, remote and anonymous, they died many years ago and are buried in unmarked graves in inaccessible cemeteries long since lost beneath the shifting sands of unfathomable, inexorable time.
So. What exactly was "The Falernian Legacy?" For better or worse, we are not sure. We do know that there is a fragment of torn, fading and mottled parchment kept double-locked inside in an ancient and rusty unopenable tin, and that upon this parchment are vague and unreadable scratches - possibly a row of question marks - made by an unsteady and unreliable hand using a damaged quill dipped in invisible ink that was already running out when the first untranslatable words were being inscribed upon this untrustworthy document. But this is all we really know for certain.
Indeed, many so-called experts have claimed that there was no such thing as "The Falernian Legacy," and they aver that I have simply made it up hoping to sell a documentary about it to the History Channel.
But we will never know for sure, since I have drawn a discreet shroud of silence over this mysterious and clandestine "The Falernian Legacy," and will never speak of it again unless I get the grant money.

Comments

[Peter Horne]

Then there is the caucinian conspiracy as alluded to by Galen and still a deep mystery. And of course, the faustian enigma mentioned by Pliny the Elder. Where will it all end? We may never know. Maybe we should have a nice bottle of wine and forget all about it. I think it's your round.

[stephenesque]

I have always admired the stomach acids of the ancients.