Welcome to the New Order
Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2008 3:51 pm
The seventeenth day of Stardance 5905, the Day of Dust and Lightning, is the day of our victory.
For too many centuries, the Babkhans have been a blot upon Lirikoth, the vast and fertiles territories to the south of the Island. This Day of Dust and Lightning, it ends.
Of the Nine who chose to trust Hesmi Jayandrion, five, already old during his reign, did not live to see this day. The other four have stepped down. The Colleges of Kawivelin have been...rearranged. The local assemblies will spend many days sorting through the politics of the matter, but this I know: I, who ritually renamed myself Yyiji Tonkothion, am Elder Prince. I have declared a Kai Aphmyarkaiph a Great What-We-Are-Becoming across all Lirikoth, under the signs of the Spiral, the Star, and the White Orchid.
The lands claimed by Kai-Raikoth, Greater Hyperborea, are as follows: the Hyperborean Isles, the Cimmerian Archipelago, Hyfrost and Bjorngard. The Star, Spiral, and Orchid have been raised in all these territories, not by force but by love.
The Queen of Night's Repentant Children and the One Hundred Eight Concentric Circles have been dispatched to Caligae and Viyajar respectively, to liberate them from Babkhan domination. The King of the South and his people now realize what we of Hyperborea have known all along: that the Babkhans of Elwynn are a stain on the Duchy, and they must be rooted out like any other infestation. When those two cities have fallen, we will march on Ardashirshahr and erase the name of the Great Traitor from the map.
There will be no killing or looting. Those are Babkhan ways, not ours. There will be a rearrangement of government, a reeducation of those who can be educated, and a deportation to foreign lands of those who cannot.
I invite all the people of Elwynn to join in our What-We-Are-Becoming by casting off foreign influence physically and spiritually. Those who raise the banner of the Star and Spiral and Orchid above their towns will be recognized as friends, and rewarded. Those who do not will be presumed in sympathy with the traitors until they prove otherwise.
In the meantime, I declare the following provisional renaming of cities: Ardashirshahr will be renamed Tielion Loki, "City of Loki", after the Kaiser who has most uncompromisingly opposed Babkhan influence in the south. Viyajar will be named Alumelith, "Fjord of Elith". And Caligae will be named Galisbeis, "Newly Reborn"
The three portions of Lesser Zjandaria will be renamed as follows: the northwestern portion will be "Raeyomen", the northeastern portion "Alumikoth", and the southern portion "Lokithiat".
Rai Avon-El, named as the Steward of Elwynn, is in Shirekeep, under Imperial protection. We extend that protection to his lands and people. No man who takes up arms in our What-We-Are-Becoming may harm any of Avon-El's personal holdings. However, we will not recognize his authority as Steward until he sunders all connection with Babkha. I feel confident that Duke Nider will support my decision in this when he returns.
For too many centuries, the Babkhans have been a blot upon Lirikoth, the vast and fertiles territories to the south of the Island. This Day of Dust and Lightning, it ends.
Of the Nine who chose to trust Hesmi Jayandrion, five, already old during his reign, did not live to see this day. The other four have stepped down. The Colleges of Kawivelin have been...rearranged. The local assemblies will spend many days sorting through the politics of the matter, but this I know: I, who ritually renamed myself Yyiji Tonkothion, am Elder Prince. I have declared a Kai Aphmyarkaiph a Great What-We-Are-Becoming across all Lirikoth, under the signs of the Spiral, the Star, and the White Orchid.
The lands claimed by Kai-Raikoth, Greater Hyperborea, are as follows: the Hyperborean Isles, the Cimmerian Archipelago, Hyfrost and Bjorngard. The Star, Spiral, and Orchid have been raised in all these territories, not by force but by love.
The Queen of Night's Repentant Children and the One Hundred Eight Concentric Circles have been dispatched to Caligae and Viyajar respectively, to liberate them from Babkhan domination. The King of the South and his people now realize what we of Hyperborea have known all along: that the Babkhans of Elwynn are a stain on the Duchy, and they must be rooted out like any other infestation. When those two cities have fallen, we will march on Ardashirshahr and erase the name of the Great Traitor from the map.
There will be no killing or looting. Those are Babkhan ways, not ours. There will be a rearrangement of government, a reeducation of those who can be educated, and a deportation to foreign lands of those who cannot.
I invite all the people of Elwynn to join in our What-We-Are-Becoming by casting off foreign influence physically and spiritually. Those who raise the banner of the Star and Spiral and Orchid above their towns will be recognized as friends, and rewarded. Those who do not will be presumed in sympathy with the traitors until they prove otherwise.
In the meantime, I declare the following provisional renaming of cities: Ardashirshahr will be renamed Tielion Loki, "City of Loki", after the Kaiser who has most uncompromisingly opposed Babkhan influence in the south. Viyajar will be named Alumelith, "Fjord of Elith". And Caligae will be named Galisbeis, "Newly Reborn"
The three portions of Lesser Zjandaria will be renamed as follows: the northwestern portion will be "Raeyomen", the northeastern portion "Alumikoth", and the southern portion "Lokithiat".
Rai Avon-El, named as the Steward of Elwynn, is in Shirekeep, under Imperial protection. We extend that protection to his lands and people. No man who takes up arms in our What-We-Are-Becoming may harm any of Avon-El's personal holdings. However, we will not recognize his authority as Steward until he sunders all connection with Babkha. I feel confident that Duke Nider will support my decision in this when he returns.
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