Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
Silver Steak said:Wrong. I quipped on it right after you wrote the story.
EDIT: For reference, scroll up to das' post. #3782.
Confirming my theories that you and Kal are the same person.
Oh, and nice story Cuiv.
LINESII- Into the Darkness
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Confirming my theories that you and Kal are the same person.
Oh, and nice story Cuiv.
Swissempire
Poet Jester
V ery nice story Cuiv, but what is the fire thing?
Silver Steak
The Ghost of SS
Most likely a volcano. What is really interesting is what is going to happen after it...
alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
The Storm Rages 1
Men love power, but hate to lose it. -Emperor Wu, Fourth Emperor of Guangfei
The first sixteen years of Emperor Wus reign went smoothly as all went well, the harvests got better with each passing season, trade increased and life was good. Of course, accordingly good times are breeding grounds for rebellion. Despite his successful reign and the peoples adoration for him, Emperor Wu never felt at ease. In his first year, he toured the former territories of the Shangei League to see the damage caused and sired a few bastards as well.
A sense of insecurity was what it was, as if something was telling him these good times werent going to last. And he was right. As usual. This good time was about to come crashing down when a pillar was broken. The basis of this was at the end of the War of Shangei Unification when leading officers were granted lordship over a great deal of territory in the areas around Shangei and Shysang.
Now if Prince Hong had become Emperor that would have been no problem as these men and their descendents were loyal to the hilt towards him. Of course when he was ousted from the succession by Prince Che, these men naturally had quite negative thoughts about it. But at the current time they couldnt do much about it so they bided their time until now. Little did the Emperor know that his older brother had not gone east but instead found refuge in the lands of his former subordinates.
Of course, the main leaders in the conspiracy knew better then to challenge Emperor Wu in such a direct confrontational and delayed and dallied for as long as they could that is for the rest of their life. Their heirs alas possessed few of the good qualities their fathers did having been spared the necessity for war. The fact that they saw Prince Hong as a hero and worshipped him with youthful enthusiasm didnt help at all.
They quickly began forging weapons as well as gathering support among segments of society they hoped would support Prince Hongs claim to the Throne and bring down the peace that had so long reign. Prince Hong himself was impatient for the time that he would mount the Dragon Throne and become Emperor as he believed was his rightful place.
So it was declared at Chibi, a small provincial town near Shangei, that the supporters of Prince Hong formally announced their decision. The Chibi Convention stated the support of the Lords of Shangei and Shysang for Prince Hong as the rightful Emperor and denounced Emperor Wu branding him as an usurper and tyrant.
It is said that when the report of the convention reached the ears of the Emperor, he merely looked at it and put it down after a short glance smiling the whole time. When an official dared to ask why he was smiling he simply said:
I knew my brother wouldnt go into exile. I now have my reason to strip the Lords of Shangei and Shysang their title. And my brother? He is a non-entity.
And so the First Stage of the Rebellion of the Lords began
das
Regeneration In Process
Excerpts from Kacher-Chronist's "History of Gerber."
VII. The Second Quiet Times and the Great Crusade.
1. The war with Hajan the Trickster has much exhausted and embittered both our land and our people.
2. Likewise the Twenty-First Cecil-King was tired and bitter, and chose to retire from most of the affairs of state, appearing only on the most important ceremonies, abandoning even the warrior feasts he so enjoyed before.
3. Thus with him became the Second Quiet Times, during which most Cecilids were likewise withdrawn, leaving most affairs to the chief advisors and the highest priests.
[...]
6. Though quiet and depressed within our land, these times were not at all bereft of war, and in one of them some of our warriors had participated.
7. During the reign of the feeble-minded Twenty-Second Cecil-King, Arelsh-Advisor reigned supreme as regent.
8. A capable diplomat, he reconciled our land with the Khemri, with whom trade flourished once more, and with Veritas.
9. He also befriended the Nkondi, the Gorin and the Aney-Tigot.
10. Alas, it was in a time when Aney-Tigot was approaching its end.
11. To the east from Aney-Tigot there lie Eldrania, a land much like Veritas in piety and perhaps even more exposed to its darker side.
12. Their religion was like that of Veritas, only where the Veritasians thought people of other faiths to be misguided humans, the Eldranians thought them unhuman.
13. For this reason, while the Veritasians seeked to impose their faith on others, the Eldranians only seeked to slaughter them.
14. In this manner, the Eldranians slaughtered entire nations in their lands, and now turned their eyes towards Aney-Tigot.
15. Having attacked through the lands of the Nkondi instead of simply crossing the Kalmar River at the Aney-Tigotan border, the Eldranians surprised their enemies and crushed the Aney-Tigotan army.
16. The Eldranians slaughtered every Aney-Tigotan they could find and laid siege to the capital city, Tigot.
17. Even the Veritasians were terrified by this, especially due to the Eldranian proximity to Veritas itself.
18. At the time they were ruled by a man named Strategius, unlike most Veritasians a noble and honourable man.
19. Unfortunately, his very nobility revolted against his land's injustice, and though this injustice was very true, his constant violation of the laws of his own land greatly marred him in the eyes of our people.
20. Regardless, both he and his advisors from the Assemblum agreed that the Eldranians needed to be stopped.
21. This could not prevent the fall of Tigot, however, and the slaughter of all the Aney-Tigotans apart from those who fled in the very beginning of the Eldranian invasion.
[...]
24. Seeing the fanaticism of the Eldranians, Strategius decided to find allies, and assembled a coalition from all of Eldrania's neighbours, both the good ones and the bad ones.
25. In this manner, armies of our land, Nkondi, Davar and Tristaria joined the Veritasians and their faraway Emorian allies to fight the Eldranians in what was called the Great Crusade.
26. Our warriors in that Crusade were led by Irwel-General, a friend of Arelsh-Advisor.
27. But in truth, Irwel-General as well as the other allied commanders had to accept and follow Veritasian orders.
28. For even Strategius was not above the most common Veritasian sin - he, too, thought that all the other nations were enemies or servants, and did not recognize any of his allies his equals.
[...]
31. As one beast, no matter how strong, experienced or fierce, cannot fight off nine dogs, so the Eldranians could not fight off the enemies that attacked along all the roads and across all the rivers.
32. Even the women, children and old men attacked the invaders, and Irwel-General was astonished at their madness.
33. But despite this, the soldiers of the Crusade adopted to this quickly and begun killing all the Eldranians like they killed all the Aney-Tigotans.
34. In this way, Strategius and all his allies advanced to the Eldranian capital, Eldrar, which was taken in a brutal assault and burned to the ground.
35. All the Eldranians were slaughtered, for even those who attempted to flee were slain by whoever saw them, as fear of them had disappeared, while hatred remained.
36. Thus all is in the end stolen from the thieves, while murderers are murdered and traitors - betrayed.
[...]
39. In the days of the Twenty-Sixth Cecil-King, the Shalamari - an union of Yath'al Shanaal and Qua'laen Jal - were at the height of piety and sent out priests to all the lands to persuade people to follow their religion of Crystalism.
40. And though this religion had little appeal except to northerners, the Shalamari priests did convince many in Gorin, and in Nkondi, and in our land.
41. Yet even where the rulers accepted Crystalism, they also remembered how the Qua'laen Jal were persuaded to accept it and now were consumed by the expanding Shalamari.
42. Clearly, the Shalamari leaders themselves were, though pious, not above using their religion as a tool to gain greater influence in the surrounding lands.
43. To limit this influence, the Gorinese encouraged the rise of the Masra, a local version of Crystalism free from Shalamari control, and likewise the Nkondi with Nkondicrystalism.
44. Meanwhile in our land, the Crystalists were not too many and mostly concentrated in the northern lands, and were not at first seen as a real threat.
45. This changed when the Shalamari invaded Nkondi, capturing Darawa, the center of Orthodox Crystalism in that land, and the surrounding province.
46. The Nkondi, still weak from the war with Eldrania in which they had suffered many casualties, grudginly accepted the loss of this land.
47. This greatly alarmed Gorin, but the Masra was recognized as a legitimate variant of Crystalism by the Shalamari.
48. Our people was much more alarmed by this.
49. The Twenty-Sixth Cecil-King unlike his near ancestors and near descendants was a true ruler of our land.
50. He too was alarmed, and ordered the leader of the Crystalists in our land, Tenchar-Thinker, to be brought before him.
[...]
53. Then the Twenty-Sixth Cecil-King asked Tenchar-Thinker to choose between Crystalism and our religion.
54. To this Tenchar-Thinker said that he would not change his religion.
55. Then spoke the Twenty-Sixth Cecil-King: "If this be your choice, then very well."
56. And he added: "Neither you nor your followers will have to betray their faith."
57. Then the Twenty-Sixth Cecil-King ordered Tenchar-Thinker to be escorted back to his home; and as soon as he was brought there, all the Crystalists who swore to follow their leader to the death were ordered to follow him to Shalamari.
58. And as all the Crystalists were deported from our land, the Shalamari were unable to conquer our northern territories, while expansion elsewhere was prevented by the Nkondi alliance with our people and by the rising strenght of the Gorin.
59. In such a manner, peace was preserved in Upper Wardash until the Days of Much War.
[...]
VIII. The Days of Much War and the Thirtieth Cecil-King .
1. Though as said the Second Quiet Times were not at all peaceful for the greater world, the Days of Much War that came afterwards saw more warfare than in any earlier times.
2. Our land too has involved itself in the wars, but not in the greatest war of the time, that between Veritas and Khemri.
3. This was done despite the prevailing opinion that Veritas was the greatest evil of all.
4. Although its means were at times almost admirable, especially by comparison with those of other evil nations, their goal was much more evil.
5. For the goal of Hajan the Trickster was simply the strenghthening of his power; and the goal of the Eldranians was the slaughter of the other peoples.
6. The Veritasians sought not to slaughter other peoples; they seeked to destroy their souls by wrecking their laws and forcefully introducing Veritasian ones, and by enforcing the belief in the Veritasian faith.
7. Thus while after Eldrania's destruction, there remained a huge unpopulated land, after the destruction of Veritas there remained living people who were but shades of their former selves, broken culturally and spiritually, smashed under the pressure of Veritasian culture.
8. This is much worse than death, for while death means release, such torture as that of the Veritasians means only misery.
9. And yet, the Thirtieth Cecil-King, one of our land's strongest rulers who revived it after the Second Quiet Times, did not want to support the Khemri.
10. For just as they abandoned our people before the evil of Hajan, so the Thirtieth Cecil-King now abandoned the Khemri before the evil of Veritas.
[...]
13. While war already raged elsewhere, the Thirtieth Cecil-King prepared a war of his own, separate from that of the Veritasians.
14. With a great army, he invaded the Mogul Empire, but faced little resistance as our old enemies were once more in decline.
15. The grandson of Hajan the Trickster was much more like Akbar VI.
16. Uninspired and decaying, the Mogul army was easily defeated.
[...]
18. At this point many of our warriors thought that they would march onwards to Delhi.
19. But the Thirtieth Cecil-King did not want that, and instead sent envoys to "Hajan III", asking for peace.
20. This ofcourse was accepted, as "Hajan III" was glad to save his life, even if it meant ceding half the Mogul lands to our people.
21. For this he was greatly disliked by his people and soon was overthrown.
22. As for our warriors, they did not at all understand the Thirtieth Cecil-King's decision.
23. But before they could grow any more outraged, the Thirtieth Cecil-King himself came out and explained to them that Delhi, how ever rich, was of no use to our people, for it was already rich, and had no urge for an access to the sea.
24. Furthermore, he said, the southern Mogul lands would be almost impossible to hold on to for long, as even if the Moguls themselves are subdued, the Khemri or the Veritasians will try and seize that land, for it is a good forward position from where to attack each other.
25. Finally, he reminded them that the Khemri had long ago betrayed us precisely because they feared that we will threaten them from Delhi, and there was no need to antagonize them more than necessary.
26. When asked of what will happen to the Moguls, the Thirtieth Cecil-King laughed, and said that the Moguls still are placed between Veritas and Khemri, and their land would probably become the ground of battle for both sides; and after the war is over, no matter who wins Mogulia will be so devastated that no threat would come from it for centuries.
27. And so it indeed happened, as first Veritasians, and later the Khemri invaded Mogulia, devastating the crippled empire's remnants and overthrowing all local civil authority there.
[...]
30. After this, the Thirtieth Cecil-King turned to the east.
31. There lived the cowardly Tristarians, descendants of the same Kalmar tribe that had once tried to slaughter our people.
32. It was against them that the Thirtieth Cecil-King led our army next.
33. Though the Tristarians did not expect retribution for past sins until the last few days, in that last moment a traitor warned them of the Thirtieth Cecil-King's intent.
34. Thusly warned, they still were no match for the Thirtieth Cecil-King's army and that of Kral-General, and were forced to retreat until their capital Trinitra.
35. But there they had prepared well, and fought off an attack by our tired warriors, preventing a quick and easy victory.
36. And while our armies regroupped, the Tristarians begun attacking our supply routes and raiding into our territory, even seizing the far eastern city of Dranos while our warriors were busy elsewhere.
38. Thus always what was won by our people with bravery and skill was lost to underhanded trickery.
[...]
41. Further east beyond the Tristarian lands lived the Davarians, one of the world's most miserable peoples, for they have forgotten their old laws and now became willing slaves of Veritas.
42. Their masters were busy fighting Khemri, but they still feared our people, and wanted to make sure that the Thirtieth Cecil-King would not be able to attack them, so they ordered the Davarians to enter the war on the Tristarian side.
[...]
45. Meanwhile, the Thirtieth Cecil-King once more assaulted Trinitra, but the Tristarians but up a good fight for once, and the assault had to be called off.
46. Before a new one could be launched, the Davarians arrived from the north and the Tristarians, much encouraged, sallied forth to attack our warriors.
47. Much of our army was slaughtered then, including the Thirtieth Cecil-King as well.
48. Those who had survived retreated homewards, while the enemies for the first time in centuries invaded our land unpunishedly.
[...]
50. Finally, the Thirty-First Cecil-King agreed to begin peace negotiations, as the situation was clearly desperate.
51. Much debate ensued then as envoys scurried back and forth with furious scrolls, but no peace could be agreed upon, whilst skirmishes proceeded.
[...]
60. Finally peace was signed by the Thirty-First Cecil-King with Tristaria and Davar, as all our territories east of the Kalmar were lost, while from the rest of our lands the enemies withdrew.
61. Thus while there still were decades of war in the south before peace could be achieved, our land was already at peace, how ever bad.
62. As for Veritas, by the end of the Days of Much War, when it had broken a truce and once more attacked the Khemri and their allies, this traitor too was betrayed even by its closest ally, Emor.
63. Defeated, Veritas ceased to exist, and many Veritasians fled east on ships to avoid justice.
64. Noone tried to interrupt them, for all were too tired of war; but as for the abandoned land of Veritas, it was partitioned between the victorious peoples and a few of the newly-liberated ones.
65. Now peace - and still not the worst of peaces, for Veritas was vanquished and our land, though battered, had survived - came at last after over tens of thousands of war-days.
IX. The Youngest Days.
1. Fifty-four years ago, the Thirty-First Cecil-King, one of the longest-ruling Cecilids, had expired.
2. Though for decades now, the present Thirty-Second Cecil-King reigns, though already many things had happened, it is too early to write about the history of these times.
3. There still live in our land those who saw - or, as in most cases, heard about with some of the first messangers - of the great events of our time that will never be forgotten and will be written down in future histories.
4. Such events are the entrance of our land into the Crystal Ridge Alliance, which marks the reconciliation with Khemri and Shalamari, and the coming of the Lengels from the north.
5. But none of these events are brought to any logical conclusion.
6. It is too early to say whether there will be peace or war with the Lengels, and who will emerge victorious.
7. Likewise it is too early to say what will come out of the great Crystal Ridge Alliance.
8. Thus these events are not yet trully past, just as a dying man is not yet dead and might yet be saved, and thus should not be written about as a thing of past.
9. And thus, having written down the events of the past, I believe my work to be finished.
10. For while we made the mistake of letting the past slip out of our hands and thus had to come back and catch it, we will not repeat this mistake.
11. Such people as the great Iggur-Chronist will write down all the events of our day as they happen, and neither good nor bad will be lost.
12. And everything that there is to learn from history will be learned, and the mistakes of the past will not be repeated.
The Beginning.
VII. The Second Quiet Times and the Great Crusade.
1. The war with Hajan the Trickster has much exhausted and embittered both our land and our people.
2. Likewise the Twenty-First Cecil-King was tired and bitter, and chose to retire from most of the affairs of state, appearing only on the most important ceremonies, abandoning even the warrior feasts he so enjoyed before.
3. Thus with him became the Second Quiet Times, during which most Cecilids were likewise withdrawn, leaving most affairs to the chief advisors and the highest priests.
[...]
6. Though quiet and depressed within our land, these times were not at all bereft of war, and in one of them some of our warriors had participated.
7. During the reign of the feeble-minded Twenty-Second Cecil-King, Arelsh-Advisor reigned supreme as regent.
8. A capable diplomat, he reconciled our land with the Khemri, with whom trade flourished once more, and with Veritas.
9. He also befriended the Nkondi, the Gorin and the Aney-Tigot.
10. Alas, it was in a time when Aney-Tigot was approaching its end.
11. To the east from Aney-Tigot there lie Eldrania, a land much like Veritas in piety and perhaps even more exposed to its darker side.
12. Their religion was like that of Veritas, only where the Veritasians thought people of other faiths to be misguided humans, the Eldranians thought them unhuman.
13. For this reason, while the Veritasians seeked to impose their faith on others, the Eldranians only seeked to slaughter them.
14. In this manner, the Eldranians slaughtered entire nations in their lands, and now turned their eyes towards Aney-Tigot.
15. Having attacked through the lands of the Nkondi instead of simply crossing the Kalmar River at the Aney-Tigotan border, the Eldranians surprised their enemies and crushed the Aney-Tigotan army.
16. The Eldranians slaughtered every Aney-Tigotan they could find and laid siege to the capital city, Tigot.
17. Even the Veritasians were terrified by this, especially due to the Eldranian proximity to Veritas itself.
18. At the time they were ruled by a man named Strategius, unlike most Veritasians a noble and honourable man.
19. Unfortunately, his very nobility revolted against his land's injustice, and though this injustice was very true, his constant violation of the laws of his own land greatly marred him in the eyes of our people.
20. Regardless, both he and his advisors from the Assemblum agreed that the Eldranians needed to be stopped.
21. This could not prevent the fall of Tigot, however, and the slaughter of all the Aney-Tigotans apart from those who fled in the very beginning of the Eldranian invasion.
[...]
24. Seeing the fanaticism of the Eldranians, Strategius decided to find allies, and assembled a coalition from all of Eldrania's neighbours, both the good ones and the bad ones.
25. In this manner, armies of our land, Nkondi, Davar and Tristaria joined the Veritasians and their faraway Emorian allies to fight the Eldranians in what was called the Great Crusade.
26. Our warriors in that Crusade were led by Irwel-General, a friend of Arelsh-Advisor.
27. But in truth, Irwel-General as well as the other allied commanders had to accept and follow Veritasian orders.
28. For even Strategius was not above the most common Veritasian sin - he, too, thought that all the other nations were enemies or servants, and did not recognize any of his allies his equals.
[...]
31. As one beast, no matter how strong, experienced or fierce, cannot fight off nine dogs, so the Eldranians could not fight off the enemies that attacked along all the roads and across all the rivers.
32. Even the women, children and old men attacked the invaders, and Irwel-General was astonished at their madness.
33. But despite this, the soldiers of the Crusade adopted to this quickly and begun killing all the Eldranians like they killed all the Aney-Tigotans.
34. In this way, Strategius and all his allies advanced to the Eldranian capital, Eldrar, which was taken in a brutal assault and burned to the ground.
35. All the Eldranians were slaughtered, for even those who attempted to flee were slain by whoever saw them, as fear of them had disappeared, while hatred remained.
36. Thus all is in the end stolen from the thieves, while murderers are murdered and traitors - betrayed.
[...]
39. In the days of the Twenty-Sixth Cecil-King, the Shalamari - an union of Yath'al Shanaal and Qua'laen Jal - were at the height of piety and sent out priests to all the lands to persuade people to follow their religion of Crystalism.
40. And though this religion had little appeal except to northerners, the Shalamari priests did convince many in Gorin, and in Nkondi, and in our land.
41. Yet even where the rulers accepted Crystalism, they also remembered how the Qua'laen Jal were persuaded to accept it and now were consumed by the expanding Shalamari.
42. Clearly, the Shalamari leaders themselves were, though pious, not above using their religion as a tool to gain greater influence in the surrounding lands.
43. To limit this influence, the Gorinese encouraged the rise of the Masra, a local version of Crystalism free from Shalamari control, and likewise the Nkondi with Nkondicrystalism.
44. Meanwhile in our land, the Crystalists were not too many and mostly concentrated in the northern lands, and were not at first seen as a real threat.
45. This changed when the Shalamari invaded Nkondi, capturing Darawa, the center of Orthodox Crystalism in that land, and the surrounding province.
46. The Nkondi, still weak from the war with Eldrania in which they had suffered many casualties, grudginly accepted the loss of this land.
47. This greatly alarmed Gorin, but the Masra was recognized as a legitimate variant of Crystalism by the Shalamari.
48. Our people was much more alarmed by this.
49. The Twenty-Sixth Cecil-King unlike his near ancestors and near descendants was a true ruler of our land.
50. He too was alarmed, and ordered the leader of the Crystalists in our land, Tenchar-Thinker, to be brought before him.
[...]
53. Then the Twenty-Sixth Cecil-King asked Tenchar-Thinker to choose between Crystalism and our religion.
54. To this Tenchar-Thinker said that he would not change his religion.
55. Then spoke the Twenty-Sixth Cecil-King: "If this be your choice, then very well."
56. And he added: "Neither you nor your followers will have to betray their faith."
57. Then the Twenty-Sixth Cecil-King ordered Tenchar-Thinker to be escorted back to his home; and as soon as he was brought there, all the Crystalists who swore to follow their leader to the death were ordered to follow him to Shalamari.
58. And as all the Crystalists were deported from our land, the Shalamari were unable to conquer our northern territories, while expansion elsewhere was prevented by the Nkondi alliance with our people and by the rising strenght of the Gorin.
59. In such a manner, peace was preserved in Upper Wardash until the Days of Much War.
[...]
VIII. The Days of Much War and the Thirtieth Cecil-King .
1. Though as said the Second Quiet Times were not at all peaceful for the greater world, the Days of Much War that came afterwards saw more warfare than in any earlier times.
2. Our land too has involved itself in the wars, but not in the greatest war of the time, that between Veritas and Khemri.
3. This was done despite the prevailing opinion that Veritas was the greatest evil of all.
4. Although its means were at times almost admirable, especially by comparison with those of other evil nations, their goal was much more evil.
5. For the goal of Hajan the Trickster was simply the strenghthening of his power; and the goal of the Eldranians was the slaughter of the other peoples.
6. The Veritasians sought not to slaughter other peoples; they seeked to destroy their souls by wrecking their laws and forcefully introducing Veritasian ones, and by enforcing the belief in the Veritasian faith.
7. Thus while after Eldrania's destruction, there remained a huge unpopulated land, after the destruction of Veritas there remained living people who were but shades of their former selves, broken culturally and spiritually, smashed under the pressure of Veritasian culture.
8. This is much worse than death, for while death means release, such torture as that of the Veritasians means only misery.
9. And yet, the Thirtieth Cecil-King, one of our land's strongest rulers who revived it after the Second Quiet Times, did not want to support the Khemri.
10. For just as they abandoned our people before the evil of Hajan, so the Thirtieth Cecil-King now abandoned the Khemri before the evil of Veritas.
[...]
13. While war already raged elsewhere, the Thirtieth Cecil-King prepared a war of his own, separate from that of the Veritasians.
14. With a great army, he invaded the Mogul Empire, but faced little resistance as our old enemies were once more in decline.
15. The grandson of Hajan the Trickster was much more like Akbar VI.
16. Uninspired and decaying, the Mogul army was easily defeated.
[...]
18. At this point many of our warriors thought that they would march onwards to Delhi.
19. But the Thirtieth Cecil-King did not want that, and instead sent envoys to "Hajan III", asking for peace.
20. This ofcourse was accepted, as "Hajan III" was glad to save his life, even if it meant ceding half the Mogul lands to our people.
21. For this he was greatly disliked by his people and soon was overthrown.
22. As for our warriors, they did not at all understand the Thirtieth Cecil-King's decision.
23. But before they could grow any more outraged, the Thirtieth Cecil-King himself came out and explained to them that Delhi, how ever rich, was of no use to our people, for it was already rich, and had no urge for an access to the sea.
24. Furthermore, he said, the southern Mogul lands would be almost impossible to hold on to for long, as even if the Moguls themselves are subdued, the Khemri or the Veritasians will try and seize that land, for it is a good forward position from where to attack each other.
25. Finally, he reminded them that the Khemri had long ago betrayed us precisely because they feared that we will threaten them from Delhi, and there was no need to antagonize them more than necessary.
26. When asked of what will happen to the Moguls, the Thirtieth Cecil-King laughed, and said that the Moguls still are placed between Veritas and Khemri, and their land would probably become the ground of battle for both sides; and after the war is over, no matter who wins Mogulia will be so devastated that no threat would come from it for centuries.
27. And so it indeed happened, as first Veritasians, and later the Khemri invaded Mogulia, devastating the crippled empire's remnants and overthrowing all local civil authority there.
[...]
30. After this, the Thirtieth Cecil-King turned to the east.
31. There lived the cowardly Tristarians, descendants of the same Kalmar tribe that had once tried to slaughter our people.
32. It was against them that the Thirtieth Cecil-King led our army next.
33. Though the Tristarians did not expect retribution for past sins until the last few days, in that last moment a traitor warned them of the Thirtieth Cecil-King's intent.
34. Thusly warned, they still were no match for the Thirtieth Cecil-King's army and that of Kral-General, and were forced to retreat until their capital Trinitra.
35. But there they had prepared well, and fought off an attack by our tired warriors, preventing a quick and easy victory.
36. And while our armies regroupped, the Tristarians begun attacking our supply routes and raiding into our territory, even seizing the far eastern city of Dranos while our warriors were busy elsewhere.
38. Thus always what was won by our people with bravery and skill was lost to underhanded trickery.
[...]
41. Further east beyond the Tristarian lands lived the Davarians, one of the world's most miserable peoples, for they have forgotten their old laws and now became willing slaves of Veritas.
42. Their masters were busy fighting Khemri, but they still feared our people, and wanted to make sure that the Thirtieth Cecil-King would not be able to attack them, so they ordered the Davarians to enter the war on the Tristarian side.
[...]
45. Meanwhile, the Thirtieth Cecil-King once more assaulted Trinitra, but the Tristarians but up a good fight for once, and the assault had to be called off.
46. Before a new one could be launched, the Davarians arrived from the north and the Tristarians, much encouraged, sallied forth to attack our warriors.
47. Much of our army was slaughtered then, including the Thirtieth Cecil-King as well.
48. Those who had survived retreated homewards, while the enemies for the first time in centuries invaded our land unpunishedly.
[...]
50. Finally, the Thirty-First Cecil-King agreed to begin peace negotiations, as the situation was clearly desperate.
51. Much debate ensued then as envoys scurried back and forth with furious scrolls, but no peace could be agreed upon, whilst skirmishes proceeded.
[...]
60. Finally peace was signed by the Thirty-First Cecil-King with Tristaria and Davar, as all our territories east of the Kalmar were lost, while from the rest of our lands the enemies withdrew.
61. Thus while there still were decades of war in the south before peace could be achieved, our land was already at peace, how ever bad.
62. As for Veritas, by the end of the Days of Much War, when it had broken a truce and once more attacked the Khemri and their allies, this traitor too was betrayed even by its closest ally, Emor.
63. Defeated, Veritas ceased to exist, and many Veritasians fled east on ships to avoid justice.
64. Noone tried to interrupt them, for all were too tired of war; but as for the abandoned land of Veritas, it was partitioned between the victorious peoples and a few of the newly-liberated ones.
65. Now peace - and still not the worst of peaces, for Veritas was vanquished and our land, though battered, had survived - came at last after over tens of thousands of war-days.
IX. The Youngest Days.
1. Fifty-four years ago, the Thirty-First Cecil-King, one of the longest-ruling Cecilids, had expired.
2. Though for decades now, the present Thirty-Second Cecil-King reigns, though already many things had happened, it is too early to write about the history of these times.
3. There still live in our land those who saw - or, as in most cases, heard about with some of the first messangers - of the great events of our time that will never be forgotten and will be written down in future histories.
4. Such events are the entrance of our land into the Crystal Ridge Alliance, which marks the reconciliation with Khemri and Shalamari, and the coming of the Lengels from the north.
5. But none of these events are brought to any logical conclusion.
6. It is too early to say whether there will be peace or war with the Lengels, and who will emerge victorious.
7. Likewise it is too early to say what will come out of the great Crystal Ridge Alliance.
8. Thus these events are not yet trully past, just as a dying man is not yet dead and might yet be saved, and thus should not be written about as a thing of past.
9. And thus, having written down the events of the past, I believe my work to be finished.
10. For while we made the mistake of letting the past slip out of our hands and thus had to come back and catch it, we will not repeat this mistake.
11. Such people as the great Iggur-Chronist will write down all the events of our day as they happen, and neither good nor bad will be lost.
12. And everything that there is to learn from history will be learned, and the mistakes of the past will not be repeated.
The Beginning.
Swissempire
Poet Jester
Yay, iwas was not insulted, and Das, that was amazing, simply amazing
~Darkening~
Weep, Mother.
It seems you missed some facts Das ;]. First off, "for they have forgotten their old laws and now became willing slaves of Veritas."
Perhaps you didn't know I set up the alliance that led to war with Gerber? Veritas actually didn't get involved in the war at all.
"Their masters were busy fighting Khemri, but they still feared our people, and wanted to make sure that the Thirtieth Cecil-King would not be able to attack them, so they ordered the Davarians to enter the war on the Tristarian side."
See the alliance above. So I had an alliance with Tristaria, as with Veritas, and honored it. The other thing Veritas had a vioce in was the order. I helped Tristaria and then tried to help Veritas.
And in case you're wondering, I no longer have an alliances with Tristaria.
Perhaps you didn't know I set up the alliance that led to war with Gerber? Veritas actually didn't get involved in the war at all.
"Their masters were busy fighting Khemri, but they still feared our people, and wanted to make sure that the Thirtieth Cecil-King would not be able to attack them, so they ordered the Davarians to enter the war on the Tristarian side."
See the alliance above. So I had an alliance with Tristaria, as with Veritas, and honored it. The other thing Veritas had a vioce in was the order. I helped Tristaria and then tried to help Veritas.
And in case you're wondering, I no longer have an alliances with Tristaria.
jalapeno_dude
AKA Panda Judo Eel
Great story Das. It's interesting reading people's perceptions of the Eldranians.
P.S. In #13 of the first part, it should be "sought", not "seeked".
P.S. In #13 of the first part, it should be "sought", not "seeked".
alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
OOC: Why are you still up das? Or so early that is... 
Though I love how you insult so many nations in your story 
Though I love how you insult so many nations in your story
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
I'm almost honored by the amounts of hatred and vitriol towards Veritas in that story, das! The next part of my story will come tomorrow.
The next part of my story will come tomorrow.
das
Regeneration In Process
Where did I say that it did? Quotes, please!
Yes, *I* - and presumably, Kacher-Chronist as well - do know that you did so because of the alliance with Tristaria. However, later developments made it possible to reinterpret everything as an evil Veritasian conspiracy against us. You did consult them about the campaign and so forth at later stages.
And btw, that first quote is scarcely relevant in this case; what I mean about slaves was that you WERE a Veritasian ally, formally or not, and that you DID "forget your old laws" (the monarchy that you swapped for the Veritasian-inspired republic).
The Gerberian-to-English translator is probably to blame (never trusted that babelfish thing), but we might alternatively consider it a stylization.
EDIT:
Thanks, I try. Btw, Thlayli, now that you're far away enough, we've been considering renaming your nation just to piss you off. Any suggestions?
Thlayli
Le Pétit Prince
das said:
You mean New Veritas? Well, there's always The Land of the Disgusting Infidels, or perhaps Cursed Demonic Realm of the Unpopular Heretics...whichever you like more.
das
Regeneration In Process
Actually we meant just Veritas. And especially the word "Veritasians". The Thirty-Second Cecil-King is quite annoyed by the fact that a defeated evil people have the arrogance of taking up so much space in the scrolls. I mean, 11 letters! Next thing you know they'll ask us to pronounce their names right, or even recite the full name of their governing body!
Okay, sorry, I'll stop now. This IS rather pointless spam.
Okay, sorry, I'll stop now. This IS rather pointless spam.
alex994
Hail Divine Emperor!
You know, you do have a point... Thlayli's governing body name is ridulously long... 
Silver Steak
The Ghost of SS
Why don't you adopt the abbreviation we've used in the CRA? We (or at least Kal and Ken) called it "Vertis".
We (or at least Kal and Ken) called it "Vertis".
das
Regeneration In Process
"Vertisians" is better, but only by one letter (that actually rhymes!).
Problem is, I already ordered them to be renamed, but I forgot into what exactly and cleaned my sent items, and now am unsure what is their name now and just why did I do that anyway. Ah well.
Problem is, I already ordered them to be renamed, but I forgot into what exactly and cleaned my sent items, and now am unsure what is their name now and just why did I do that anyway. Ah well.
Silver Steak
The Ghost of SS
Even better: "Vertisi". Or simply "the Vertis".
das
Regeneration In Process
Well, hopefully Iggy will mention it in the update when he comes back.
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