Post by badger2305 on Aug 9, 2011 23:49:40 GMT -6
There are no newspapers or other public media in the Empire, and those priests and nobles who would be informed must hire scribes to copy the public portions of the reports sent sent in to Avanthár by the Four Palaces, by certain temples, and by the Omnipotent Azure Legion. These documents are gathered together at the end of each month and made into another volume of the “Korunkoi hiGardasisayal Koluman hiTirikeludalidalisa” (the Book of Mighty Imperial Deeds of the Great and Glorious Petal Throne). Inscribed upon leaves of gold, this book is kept in the Hall of Blue Illumination in the Chancery at Avanthar, where those who are interested may see it upon application to the Provost, Lord Cháimira hiSsánmirin. Not all items would be of interest to those just learning about Tsolyánu, of course, since the Book contains tax reports, priestly enumerations, trade statements, and a thousand other types of administrative information, all neatly collated and indexed by the Lord Provost’s myriad slaves. What follows, thus, is but a culling of individual news items from here and there. Naturally, much of this information is from the public records, but a little has been obtained from the “Inner Book,” which is secret and which is submitted to the Petal Throne for the Emperor’s own scrutiny.
“ . . . Know ye, O Tree of Life Whose Branches Overshadow the Universe, that matters continue to worsen between the Priests of Stability and the Priests of Change. Aside from that matter in Penom (passage deleted and replaced by the glyph “inserted into the Inner Book only”: Translator], there are reports from several cities. From the slums and stews of Purdimal there are reports of a reviving worship of the ancient and detestable Goddess of the Pale Bone, who antedates the Ten Gods and the Ten Cohorts; efforts made to stamp out her pernicious practices meet opposition from some of the half-human descendants of that race which dwelt there aforetimes. From Fasiltum come intelligences that priests of the two alignments have clashed in the streets, with some heads broken. From Thraya comes the news that young hotheads in the Temple of Chegarra attempted to raise the standards of a holy war to destroy all evil temples. As is known, only through maintaining the balance can the Empire prosper, and there are those on many
sides who would tip it one way or the other. Should a holy war break out, the Yan Koryani would not be slow to seize the advantage. O our Lord, we pray for guidance!”
“ . . . Know ye, O Tree of Life Whose Branches Overshadow the Universe, that matters continue to worsen between the Priests of Stability and the Priests of Change. Aside from that matter in Penom (passage deleted and replaced by the glyph “inserted into the Inner Book only”: Translator], there are reports from several cities. From the slums and stews of Purdimal there are reports of a reviving worship of the ancient and detestable Goddess of the Pale Bone, who antedates the Ten Gods and the Ten Cohorts; efforts made to stamp out her pernicious practices meet opposition from some of the half-human descendants of that race which dwelt there aforetimes. From Fasiltum come intelligences that priests of the two alignments have clashed in the streets, with some heads broken. From Thraya comes the news that young hotheads in the Temple of Chegarra attempted to raise the standards of a holy war to destroy all evil temples. As is known, only through maintaining the balance can the Empire prosper, and there are those on many
sides who would tip it one way or the other. Should a holy war break out, the Yan Koryani would not be slow to seize the advantage. O our Lord, we pray for guidance!”