Foibles of the Unbelievers
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 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.
Chapters
Chapter One
How the Elw are Fornicators and Idlers who permit their Country to Fall into the Clutches of Any Passing Foreigner
Chapter Two
On Shirerithians and how they are Ludicrous beyond all powers of description and stink to high heaven of rotten Mangos
Chapter Three
The Froyalanish who are overly fond of exposing their privy parts - to the consternation of all - and who make blasphemous claims of fornication with minor deities that are manifestations of the Will of Zurvan and who must be violently restrained from renaming all manner of things after Freya
Chapter Four
The habits and vile proclivities of the ghosts and ghouls who exist in the Boreal Realms & how their ancestral line was born through copulation with bears
Chapter Five
The Barbarians of the Cape beyond Caligae and why we do not know why they even bother to exist
Chapter Six
The shameful flight of the Ardashirians - their crimes and follies
