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[[File:Sword of Fire.png|350px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>The Sword of Fire, portrayed as being wielded by its latter-day possessor the Empress of [[Minarboria]].</small></div> ]] | [[File:Sword of Fire.png|350px|thumb|right|<div class="center" style="width: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><small>The Sword of Fire, portrayed as being wielded by its latter-day possessor the Empress of [[Minarboria]].</small></div> ]] | ||
| − | The sword | + | The sword subsequently, somehow, fallen into the hands of the [[Minarboria|Empress of Minarboria]], a Gnostic and chthonic realm populated by the undead and genetically modified post-humans, and has thereby, arguably, passed once more out of the hands of mortal man and back to those powers which were once decried as demonic by the Cedrist religion. Another facet perhaps to the ongoing Benacian Schism between the bloodlines of the [[Kaiser Raynor I|Kaiser]] who enslaved the demon tree [[Malarbor]] and those who worship that same tree's sprouting, the shrub [[Minarbor]]. |
| − | [[Kizzy Drakland]], current Queen of [[Malarboria]], possesses the Sword of Fire after a trial of worthiness by Kalgachian occultists. | + | [[Kizzy Drakland]], current Queen of [[Malarboria]], possesses the Sword of Fire after a trial of worthiness by Kalgachian occultists. Kizzy was, in turn, obliged to surrender the Sword of Fire to [[Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion]] in 1662 under the terms of the Convention of Drakorda, which permitted her to depart from the lands of what had then become the [[State of Modan]] following a [[N&H Party|Humanist]] revolt against daemonic rule. |
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| + | The Sword of Fire, as the centre piece of the state regalia of Modan, represents the celestial fire by which the human supremacy was established upon the hostile alien world of Micras, and represents the reforging of the ancient continuity between the greatest empire, that of Khaz Modan, and the revived State of Modan in the fallen and degrade modern age where - in the absence of purifying fire from the heavens - coexistence with inhuman and nonhuman sapients has long been tolerated, to the ultimate degradation of humanity. | ||
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''See also:'' [[Cedrism]], [[Religion]] | ''See also:'' [[Cedrism]], [[Religion]] | ||
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Revision as of 11:49, 29 July 2018
The Sword of Fire: Forged by Agni in The Celestial Temple, the Sword of Fire was gifted to the Mortal realm long before the fall of the Khaz Modanian Empire, and the rise of Shireroth. The sword belonged to the Line of Emperors who ruled the Khaz Modanian Empire and was seen as a sign of the royal throne of Khaz Modan. Legend tells that the sword was lost several centuries before the fall of the Empire and was not found again until Kaiser Raynor I vanquished the dæmon creature, Rrakanychan and reclaimed the sword for Mortal Man. It is said that the wielder of this Great Sword would have the power to command flame and bend it to their will. Under the control of the dæmon creature, Rrakanychan the sword was used to set ablaze entire villages, forests and plains, reducing even the strongest fortified walls to rubble.
The sword subsequently, somehow, fallen into the hands of the Empress of Minarboria, a Gnostic and chthonic realm populated by the undead and genetically modified post-humans, and has thereby, arguably, passed once more out of the hands of mortal man and back to those powers which were once decried as demonic by the Cedrist religion. Another facet perhaps to the ongoing Benacian Schism between the bloodlines of the Kaiser who enslaved the demon tree Malarbor and those who worship that same tree's sprouting, the shrub Minarbor.
Kizzy Drakland, current Queen of Malarboria, possesses the Sword of Fire after a trial of worthiness by Kalgachian occultists. Kizzy was, in turn, obliged to surrender the Sword of Fire to Daniyal ibn Daniyal Simrani-Kalirion in 1662 under the terms of the Convention of Drakorda, which permitted her to depart from the lands of what had then become the State of Modan following a Humanist revolt against daemonic rule.
The Sword of Fire, as the centre piece of the state regalia of Modan, represents the celestial fire by which the human supremacy was established upon the hostile alien world of Micras, and represents the reforging of the ancient continuity between the greatest empire, that of Khaz Modan, and the revived State of Modan in the fallen and degrade modern age where - in the absence of purifying fire from the heavens - coexistence with inhuman and nonhuman sapients has long been tolerated, to the ultimate degradation of humanity.
