Pseudo-Ka-Ess

Pseudo-Ka-Ess (or the Fishwife poet) is the name used by academics to refer to the anonymous scholar who edited and compiled the first edition of the Tales of Ka-Ess. At the time of Ka-Ess von Manlizard's unsettling demise, his works had not been catalogued or organized for publication. Historians are divided as to whether the Fishwife poet merely prepared these works for publication or if he made significant modifications to the poems and histories included in the Tales. Although Pseudo-Ka-Ess arranged its components in roughly chronological order, the fragmented and varied nature of the narrative suggests that the elements of The Tales of Ka-Ess were not originally intended to be read as one unified work.