From The Secret Memoirs of Na-Shimin
“Despite all the evils committed by the Bladeists, one has not yet been added to the list. They have yet to bore one to death. After all, they are the most interesting peoples in the world.” –Princess Liu Shi
The splendor of the Imperial State has never been greater. Gorin, Khemri and Guangfei. The Three Greatest Imperial States the world has to see. The Valins believe in the absurd notion of the “rule by the people” and not the glory that an Empire brings. Their blind faith in their One and their love of a Republic shall be their inevitable undoing. For the Imperial State is the finest government known to man.
With a benevolent monarch, there can be no greater benefit towards man and society. Yet what goes up must come down. It is inevitable and I know that in my heart the glory of the Han cannot last forever. Even, Heaven Forbid, that one day the Imperial State will fall. For 600 years Emperors have reigned and ruled but I know a time will come when it shall end. And so, I have divined and focused my energy to see the future of my beloved homeland. The Land of The Great Rivers and the Land of the Dragon.
Her future is not clear, murky it is indeed. Dirt and pollutants fill the basin and I see conflicting views of the fate of Guangfei. Each revealing in their own, all in great despair and tragedy…
The great house shall fall,
As the old order ends.
The head shall drown
in its own blood.
It shall be lifted to the heavens,
and a great cheer shall come.
Great armies shall march through the Gates,
moving barns they shall be with mighty hosts.
Birds shall be flying under the grey night sky,
the earth and heavens shall shudder.
And an old man shall weep one last time.
Seven shall be the number that shall end,
four shall be the ones to land the blow.
Three shall divide the first,
and two shall reign for divine.
One to rule them all
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“Hell has no fury like a woman scorned...”–Lao Tzu
It was a dimly lit room, if not a dark one. Sparsely decorated, and a plain room to boot with no traces of its true purpose. It was a small room in a small building, one of many in the large commercial district of Guanzhong in the second ring. The sole objects in that room was a plain wooden desk, two chairs, a set of writing utensils, a shrine, and a painting of the Shun Emperor. The sole inhabitant was a young woman, in her early twenties. No one would ever call her beautiful, she was simply pretty.
The eyes showed nothing but the cold soul somewhere behind them. The sword at her side and the crossbow on the desk did nothing to deter her cold reptilian image. Clad in the rough clothes of peasants she looked like one. She was smiling now, the angelic smile of an Oneists Angel as she looked through the papers she carried in her hands under the light of the candles.
The smile did not fit with her eyes and as she took a quill and wrote a few characters on a sheet of paper, the angelic smile became a demonic one. A woman in her natural environment, her natural talents, and satisfied in it. On cue, an attendant from the outside came in and approached the desk bowing once before taking the pro-offered document and leaving the room. The woman was left to her work, once more in idle bliss with one thought in mind.
Death to the Valins…