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[[File:Foibles of the Unbelievers.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="left" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">Original Title Page to the 1550 edition of ''Foibles of the Unbelievers'', including its extended title.</div>]]

The Foibles of the Unbelievers is a [[Babkhi]] satire on the Elw, the Hyperboreans and others amongst the [[Twelve Peoples of Elwynn]] first published anonymously in 1550 during the upheavals of the [[White Lily Revolt]]. The attitude of the author in this work is uniformly scathing and visceral in regards to the indigenous population and the other ethnic communities in Elwynn whom the Babkhi could observe on a day to day basis. It is no coincidence that the book first appeared a mere seven years after the [[Kai Aphmyarkaiph]] destroyed the political power of the [[Babkhi]] and marked the nadir of the community's prestige and fortunes. 

It was first provided with illustrations in a series of plates engraved, ironically enough by Walaam Hog-Arthion, an Elw, in 1563. The scenes Hog-Arthion chose to illustrate had less to do with the overt racism of the original Babkhi text than it did on the endemic corruption of late high feudalism in Shireroth during the reign of [[Kaiser Mors VI]] when the [[History of Subdivisions#House System|House System]] was widely regarded as a direct attack on the well-established sense of Elwynnese nationality - something that would, by 1567, blossom into a full blown independence movement.

[[File:Attentive Scholars.png|250px|thumb|right|<div class="left" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">''Elw Kuffar Academicians: Attentive and Full with Learning'' - from the set of engravings included in the  1563 edition of the [[Foibles of the Unbelievers]].</div>]]