Checked back in on my world anvil, which I tried out for a bit and just could not get into as an organizing tool, and found this incredible sentence:

While nobody now remembers precisely who first settled in the abandoned fort that would eventually become The Free City , the one thing everyone can agree on is that it was some goblins that did it.

Yes there's literally an entry titled "Some goblins"

I remember talking to my girlf and showing her this info box for some reason and her reaction just being "Ah, you and I approach things very differently" because I'm playing EXTREMELY fast and loose with dates and purposely leaving blanks at the edge of the map, as it were, and she's, like

I have to know every main character's lineage back 12 generations and I'm going to simulate the tectonic motion of the world so that I can place farmland in correct areas and figure out the common evolutionary ancestors to all the different genders of elf I have