In "Forward the Foundation", Amaryl is the one to discover Wanda Seldon's mentalic powers, when Wanda reads his mind. On his deathbed, Amaryl is reminded by Hari Seldon of an idea, previously proposed by Amaryl, of developing two foundations that would serve as the kernels of a new Galactic Empire. They then discuss an idea of Seldon's to develop a group of mentalics, acting as guardians of the psychohistorical track by "introducing fine adjustments," influencing historical events. This group of mentalic psychohistorian guardians, which would be known as Second Foundation, would be in addition to another group of scholars, known as First Foundation. This First Foundation would develop the Encyclopedia Galactica to preserve the sum of human knowledge and to be a haven for technological advance, which psyhchohistory predicts would decrease the recovery time to form a second Galactic Empire.