The City Korai Records Office is the central archive of Uji. A Government institution where every Korainian life, event, and administrative action is recorded, processed, and preserved. From birth registrations and soulmate pairings to market permits, fishing licences, and Tribunal rulings, the Records Office functions as the backbone of civic order.

Within its domed halls, Record Keepers maintain the system that defines and tracks existence on the Mainland. They are divided into two distinct departments: the Department of Historical Records, under the Third Rank led by the Elder of Philosophy, and the Department of Biometric Records, under the Fourth Rank led by the Elder of Health.

For Historical Record Keepers, their work is archival and interpretive; preserving texts, digitising older records, and documenting everything from Government decisions to cultural outputs such as programming box shows and domestic manuals. Their role shapes the narrative of Uji as much as it preserves it.

By contrast, Biometric Record Keepers operate at the pace of the present. Their work is administrative, data-heavy, and relentless. They process births each cycle, register soulmate pairings, update citizen records, and fulfil requests from other departments across Government. Though much of the system is digitised, these requests are frequently routed through them — a dependency that keeps the department in constant motion.

This divide has fostered a quiet internal hierarchy. Historical Record Keepers are often regarded as scholarly and composed; Biometric Record Keepers as overworked and undervalued. The tension is largely invisible to the public, but within the Records Office, it shapes the daily rhythm of work.

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