

In _One Piece_ , it seems like little to no people knows what happened during
the Void Century.

How is this possible?


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Void Century: how can a whole century go by without anyone knowing what happened?


The World Government is heavily protective of whatever happened during the
Void Century, and actively seeks to keep people in the dark about it. They
burned every book they could find that contained info on the subject, and
killed everyone they found who knew about it while preventing as much info
from leaking as possible. The Ohara incident is a direct example of that; its
inhabitants knew too much about the Void Century to be allowed to live.


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There are 2 factors that contributed to the fact that no one knows what
heppened during the Void Century; Time and Effort.

The more important out of those two is Effort. Specifically, it's the Effort
of the World Goverment. The WG has spent centuries hunting and killing anyone
who knows anything about what happened. Ohara is one example of this; it was
burned to the ground in order to destroy whatever they knew.

The other part is Time. A full 800 year has passed, 800 years during which the
WG has hunted/killed anyone who knows anything about the Void Century. It's
easy to think that some people here and there would have kept the information,
passing it down to their children to safeguard it, but think about the risks
of doing so! If you knew that telling your kid about it would see them killed
if the WG ever even suspected it, then wouldn't you at least consider keeping
silent to protect your children? Over the course of 800 years you have **a
lot** of generations that had to face this question.

I find it likely that there were scholars and "old families" that knew stuff
about the Void Century for several centuries following it. There were
definitely people who knew stuff after 100 years had passed, most likely after
200 years, probably after 300 years, but after 400 years it'd probably gotten
rather rare and we're still only halfway to "current time" in One Piece.


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