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General Overview
Historical Overview
“The
law of the beiqua was cherished by the people, and gifts were
lavished on the heralds bringing the news to every village and town of
Tonomat. All memories of Acheen and its unholy beliefs was quenched by the
glory of the One God.
“And
soon, that glory was brought further, as warriors, enlightened by the
God’s spirit, crossed into the east, to face those who had barred
themselves against the law. They could not stand against the One God’s
soldiers, carrying the image of the maiden in their hearts, carrying the
words of the beiqua on their tongues.
“Petty
kingdom after petty kingdom went to its knees, acknowledging that there
was only one deity, that there was only the One God, and his power was
supreme. People after people burned their idols, painted their temples the
divine white and learned the words of the beiqua by heart. Statues
were erected, cherishing the memory of the maiden. Her clarion call hailed
further and further from the city of Leahcim, and its golden words reached
out to embrace more and more believers.
“In
Leahcim, the dynasty of the Atavids – named so after the maiden’s
first daughter, from whom they descended – built their palace, their
shrine to the One God from where they ruled the realm. It was there the
high priestess Ghartala, daughter of Atavi, announced that a new land had
come into being. Not only a new land, but an empire. ‘The law must be
spread further,’ she cried out to the crowd gathered under the balcony
of the palace. ‘It must be preserved, as hallowed and sacred as it is.
Who can you trust to protect the law?’
“The
question echoed over the plaza, as the thousands fell silent, all cheers
quenched by the dire thought. Who indeed could be trusted, who would be
worthy?
“And
then the answer hailed over the plaza, shouted by ten thousand voices,
‘Only the maiden’s descendants!’
“Ghartala,
daughter of Atavi, first daughter of the maiden, accepted the power thrust
upon her by the people. In her palace in Leahcim, she was crowned the next
day empress, first empress of the Tonomai Empire, and her golden rule
would be treasured in history for millenia to come!”
Afah’aku
Ubas,
Historian, Nefah, Tonomat
(from “The God’s Conquest”, ca. 2735 A.E.)

“Empress
Ghartala’s rule was cruel and harsh. One needs not resort to sources
outside Tonomat, the official records of the empire tell enough of the
story. Records of mass imprisonments, mass tortures, and of beheadings run
throughout Ghartala’s reign, as if the supposed granddaughter of the
maiden could find no better amusement. (Supposed I say for more than a few
doubts have been cast on her ancestry even in the days of her rule.)
“She
made the beiqua the single official rule in her land, both the
river valleys and the former Acheen, as well as the new provinces in the
east. Judges were installed in every major city – called the tera’qua
– to enforce the law; they were given large military escorts to help
them in this endeavor. The tera’qua also empowered lower judges
– the zu’qua – to act as their representatives in smaller
settlements. Together they forged a new system which would prevail for the
better part of Tonomai history. Although no judge was part of the
priesthood – being males, they were not permitted – they always were
closely tied to the clergy, not seldomly by marriage to a priestess.
Rather than limit their powers, this connection expanded it, and they
could freely interpret the beiqua in cases that had not
specifically been dealt with.
“(The
beiqua focused on the relationships between the lord and the
servant, man and woman, as well as murder and theft. Questions of petty
discourse, such as inheritance, had been touched upon but were not clearly
explained. The judges drew on the tales of the maiden’s life to silence
the disputes brought before them. Thus they created precedence which would
be used by their succeeding tera’qua and zu’qua.)
“As
strict as the judges were, they did achieve a general peace in the empire.
Everyone knew the punishments that waited for any misdeeds, and the
deterrence clearly worked. Neither may the fervor be ignored that burned
in most of the Tonomai, no matter whether they had been born into the
faith or converted. For the belief in the One God, they followed both the beiqua
and the judges’ rulings to the letter.
“Historically,
it isn’t important how the peace was achieved. What is important that it
allowed trade to flourish, and the religious fervor inspired artists to
create wonderful works of art. The empire spanned a quarter of the
continent, from the river valleys of the Legnezre to the eastern,
continental coast. Each region – or province – had their special
produce, for which ample demand could be found in some other province of
the empire. The unified law, unified currency and unified faith made it
easy to find such a demand, and to arrange for trade routes – secured by
the judges and their military escorts.
“As
a result of this, regions that had been lacking in some supplies suddenly
found themselves inundated with them, and in return their own produce was
sold at good profits. Wealth spread throughout the empire. Certainly it
must have seemed to the people of those days that it was the will and the
law of the One God that gave them this wealth – and to a certain degree
they were right.
“Unfortunately,
this fueled their fanatic devotion to the One God, and to the words in the
beiqua that called on the believers to carry the faith to new
lands, ‘to raise your blades to spread my law’. Once the new Tonomai
Empire had been well established, the hunger for new conquests was roused,
and the priestesses and judges did their best to fan the flames of desire,
all in the name of the One God.”
Torqueil
Serchest,
Darawk priest, Sacred Academy of Chazevo
(from “Tonomat – The Rise of an Empire”, 3029 A.E.)
“The
Tonomai met with firm resistance on their western border, from the kingdom
of Tanci’rhes – the only realm in the area that worshipped our own
familiar gods. The Tancirians were heavily supported by the Thousand
Islands, whose king deeply mistrusted the Tonomai – rightfully so, as
they would attack the sea realm only a few decades later. Although the
Tonomai managed to conquer only a few of the islands, they held on to
their new possessions for more than two centuries before the Thousand
Islands could return them to their original nation.
“The
Elfadil Desert proved a rather unprofitable target, and their forces
quickly gave up trying to conquer the Gerouad. Some priestesses would
prowl the desert for the coming centuries, but they met with little
success as the sandpeople stood fast to their own beliefs.
“Further
in the north, the Redrob Fault also halted their progress. Crossing the
fault in large numbers was difficult, for at the time there were no
bridges. (I suppose the people of the day lacked the technical or magical
knowledge to build such bridges. Looking at today’s bridges, spanning
two miles in some cases, with priests in watchhouses every five hundred
yards, you can tell how much study has been necessary to construct these
marvels.) Often ravaged by earthquakes, the empire saw no need to risk any
of its troops in the dangerous area.
“(Supposedly
there were plans to ship troops around the area, and some that envisioned
armies marching right across the Elfadil. If that is true, I have no idea
why they were never executed. Considering the might of Tonomat at the
time, they could actually have succeeded.)
“There
was an easier target for the One God’s holy war, and it lay right across
the Straits of Stevereev: the Arrufat peninsula. Only a few miles of ocean
separated the southernmost tip of Tonomat from the peninsula – a
distance that could be handled by the current ships of the empire, sailing
ships that were bound to the coastlines.
“Infused
with the fanatic spirit of the One God, the Tonomai armies boarded their
ships and set across the Straits to begin their assault on the Arrufat
peninsula, called Nuâsdal in their tongue. On the side of Arrufat,
it would become known as the Unholy Assault, but to the Tonomai it was but
a continuation of their sacred warfare to spread the law of the beiqua.
“As
we all know, they succeeded for the most part. Almost all of Arrufat fell
and was incorporated into the Tonomai Empire, and for centuries Nuâsdal
was as much a part of the Empire as Leahcim.
“It
was at this time that Tonomat reached its greatest expanse, though at the
time people all across Gushémal lived in fear that the empire would never
cease growing, and that it would swallow the entire world in its
fervor.”
Sage
Demercur Ylvain,
Darawk priest, Sacred Academy of Chazevo
(from “A History of Gushémal”, unfinished treatise, ca. 3159 A.E.)
From
Atavi she claims to descend,
The
God’s good will she claims to have,
Tonomai
she claims to be.
Yet
the borders are frozen,
The
armies are still in their fortresses,
And
no blades are wielded to further the law,
No
arrows fly to pierce faithless breasts.
Is
she the maiden’s true heir
When
her words reach only the believers?
Does
her voice ring as sweet as the maiden’s
From
whom she claims to descend?
Derogatory
poem about the Atavid empress,
Anonymous author,
ca. 2741 A.E.

“The
regional governor of the Elbacre province, Bairel tel Nequôz, had moved
his capital further inland, away from his previous seat at Shetein on the
coast. On the banks of the Umlaht river, he built a new city which he
called Dagba. The reason for the move had been that he considered Shetein
too difficult to protect; although defenses could be built on land, the
harbor was open, and enemy ships might all too easily land troops at the
port. Dagba, on the other hand, could not be reached by the massive
ocean-faring ships, and troops had to be moved over land – against which
the governor’s troops could defend.
“Dagba
flourished quickly and grew to a size of more than three hundred thousand
people. It was the envy of all the empire, and Governor Nequôz enjoyed
his feeling of superiority.
“The
empress at Leahcim enjoyed it very little, and she felt that her home city
– the capital of the empire, no less – was dwarfed by Dagba’s quick
rise. Soon she tried to force the judges to divert trade from Dagba to
Leahcim, using her imperial powers. A few of the judges immediately
followed the orders, but the majority considered their own advantages –
and profits -, which stood to gain more from trading with Dagba.
“Conflict
was rife, and the governor of Elbacre decided not to bow to the empress.
He produced documents that proved that he, too, was a descendant of the
maiden – documents that bore the official seals of the empire,
indubidably from the early days of Ghartala’s rule. (The Tonomai have
kept these documents under close watch to this day, so we do not know
whether they are real or have been forged by the governor. Personally this
author tends toward the latter, not least because some people doubt that
the Atavids themselves are true descendants of the maiden.)
“According
to Nequôz’s documents, his ancestor was the eldest daughter of
Ghartala, Tia’mai. She had been in line to succeed her mother on the
Maiden’s Throne, but was passed over in favor of a younger sister. Nequôz
now claimed that an ancient scandal had been uncovered. The law laid down
in the beiqua had been broken in Ghartala’s time, and the
rightful heir to the Maiden’s Throne was in fact the daughter of Nequôz!
“(There
are many explanations why a younger daughter had inherited Ghartala’s
throne. Today we cannot definitely judge which Nequôz had put forward. In
fact he may have posited several theories, each more serious than the
first. It is also interesting that the original beiqua actually
does not deal with matters of inheritance, certainly not with the imperial
line. ‘Original’, I write, because the beiqua was changed in
later times to address these issues.)
“Civil
war broke out shortly afterwards. It was a brutal war that lasted for ten
years, and it exhausted the Tonomai resources severely. In the end, the
Atavids had to surrender, and the empress was decapitated on the great
plaza of Dagba. In her place the daughter of Governor Nequôz was
enthroned. She changed her name to Tia’mai, decreed that Dagba was now
the imperial capital, and that a new dynasty had taken over – the
Tiamids.
“Their
rule was not immediately challenged in the homelands of the empire; it
would take over a decade before the lands had recuperated enough that
others laid claim to imperial descent and tried to copy the Tiamids’
successful ploy. Those attempts would fail for some one hundred and fifty
years, reaching the year 2900 of our calendar.
“Across
the Straits of Stevereev, though, the province of Nuâsdal had kept well
out of the civil war. The local governor, Ishikir Ata’lamek, proclaimed
that it was his people who kept the flame of the beiqua alive. It
was they who had conquered a new land and converted the inhabitants of the
Arrufat peninsula to the good faith. For that reason alone, they deserved
the imperial crown more than anyone in either Leahcim or Dagba.
“Ata’lamek
was careful not to actually claim the throne for himself or any female
relative of his. Instead he declared that Nuâsdal was now a province of
the One God rather than the empress. He no longer was a governor
enthralled to orders from across the sea, he was the One God’s direct
civil representative to Nuâsdal – the umal’qua. (The word is
closely related to the word for judge, including the syllable qua
which means law. The same syllable is also included in beiqua, the
name for the holy text of the Tonomai.)
“As
such, Nuâsdal was still officially part of the empire – and yet it had
just declared its effective independence, with Ata’lamek and his
descendants installed as the new rulers. After a generation of their rule,
the dynasty began to be called the Umalquai, for their original title. So
two dynasties ruled at the same time over sizable portions of the Tonomai
Empire, and while the Tiamids kept gazing greedily across the Straits of
Stevereev, the Umalquai defenses were too powerful to be easily overcome.
No repeat of the Unholy Assault was possible.”
Torqueil
Serchest,
Darawk priest, Sacred Academy of Chazevo
(from “Tonomat – The Rise of an Empire”, 3029 A.E.)
“Throughout
the Atavid dynasty’s time, the fanaticism of the believers in the One
God had hardly waned. It was fed by the preachings of the priestesses, the
public announcements of the empress, and the rulings of the judges.
“The
Tiamids kept the system of the judges in place. If anything, they expanded
the powers of the tera’qua, so that they became more powerful
than the official regional governors – but there main purpose was to
keep trade running. Trade and wealth was the most important goal of the
Tiamids, no doubt a heritage of Governor Nequôz – the priestesses and
their sermons sank in importance, and so did the fervor of the people.
“It
was a great time, a time of marvelous achievements and discoveries. For
the first time in Tonomai history, wizards returned to a place of
importance, and their towers began once more to dot the landscape, while
their academies turned out spellcasters – and new spells – aplenty.
Merchants rose in prominence, along with their caravans and ships. A
saying at the time claimed that ‘Tonomat is run by gold torkyn’,
and it is the most apt description of the situation.
“But
as the fervor and faith diminished, so did the unity of the land. It took
many decades for the first signs to surface clearly, covered as they were
by the greedy desire for money that concerned most people.
“Ironically,
the river valleys of the Denya and the Legnezre first gave rise to
discontent with the empire. In some places, the imperial forces uncovered
idols of the old gods, and in 2857 A.E. the first shrine devoted to Umahar
was found on the banks of the Denya. It isn’t clear how many people
secretly returned to the old ways, apparently only a tenth of the
population. Far more than this felt that the Tiamid rulers neglected the
original home of the faith, that Leahcim was no more than a wayward
province which counted little in the eyes of the empress at Dagba. Was
Leahcim not the holiest city of the faith? Should it not be accorded the
respect it deserved?
“In
2878 A.E., the first insurrection took place. Chanting prayers to the One
God, a small army assaulted the imperial barracks at De’kra, and took it
after a one day siege. A priestess at the head of the army, Olagesh,
declared herself the new, proper empress. Two weeks later, the Tiamid
forces crushed the insurrection, and Olagesh was burned at a stake.
“The
unrest did not stop there. Olagesh’s name was carried in the hearts of
the river valley people – some claimed that she had been saved by the
One God from burning, and that she had founded a new dynasty. Every now
and then in the coming decades, a priestess appeared on the scene,
claiming to be a descendant of Olagesh, and that she would lead the new
Olagite dynasty to power, that she would return both Leahcim and the One
God’s faith to its deserved position. All of these attempts were crushed
brutally by the imperial power.
“But
while the Tiamids concentrated on the river valleys, they neglected
similar discontent in other provinces, both in the former Acheen and the
eastern, coastal provinces. More rebellions broke out. All too often the
imperial armies counted too little soldiers to provide opposition, and
months passed before new, more numerous troops could be brought to bear on
the insurrectors.

“In
the last decade of the 29th century, it seemed that a multitude
of rebellious fires were burning all across the Tonomai Empire. Everywhere
save in the Arrufat peninsula where the Umalquai dynasty – the
representatives of the One God – had preserved the Atavid system, honing
it to perfection. The province of Nuâsdal, as the peninsula was called by
the Tonomai, was tightly controlled, and the One God’s faith was as
strong as ever.
“At
the head of the Umalquai at that time was – for only the second time in
the dynasty’s history – a woman, Vereshyl Ata’lamek. Although no
priestess, she had found herself ruler of Nuâsdal since her father had
left no other heirs. (The Umalquai did not follow the current edition of
the beiqua that had been re-written by the Tiamids, rather they
held on to the original beiqua.)
“Vereshyl
was distraught by the events in the empire. Could the unrest spill across
the Straits of Stevereev to her beloved Nuâsdal? Or could the impossible
happen and the empire fall prey to its own weakness? In that case, trade
would be threatened, the steady supplies on which the wealth of Nuâsdal
relied. New sources in the lands of the faithless could be opened, of
course, but there were two problems. First of all, the faithless had sworn
eternal war on the Tonomai (which probably could be circumvented by the
promise of profit). Second, and more troublesome, was that the beiqua
had forbidden any contact with unbelievers except during warfare. Although
one can suppose that neither Vereshyl nor the majority of the Umalquai had
too many problems with the beiqua’s law in this regard, that
would surely have weakened the faith of the people of Nuâsdal.
“And
that had been the cause of the empire’s problems, had it not?
“In
other words, to secure the position of Nuâsdal, Vereshyl had to stabilize
the empire itself. In 2897 A.E. she mounted a well-sized army to cross the
Straits of Stevereev. The Umalquai army found the first coastal cities
easy pickings, and they reached Dagba in the fall of that year. But at the
city walls they were stopped, and a long siege began that would last for
nearly two years. The Umalquai faced several attacks by the imperial army
– which left the eastern provinces especially unguarded, as a result of
which some declared their independence and fortified their borders. In
2899, finally the siege ended, and Vereshyl took Dagba. The Tiamid empress
was publicly executed, yet her family was graciously allowed to survive.
Vereshyl explained this by the beiqua, in which it was stated that
only a criminal should be punished, not his family.
“The
Umalquai rule over Tonomat was not as perfect as Vereshyl had expected.
After her death in 2921, the new dynasty began to suffer the same troubles
as the Tiamids had before them. The easy life in Dagba affected them, made
them as negligent as their predecessors had been. Even Nuâsdal receded in
their attention, and slowly the Arrufat peninsula’s defenses began to
weaken.
“That
led directly to the reconquest of Arrufat, which began in 2974 A.E. when
the first troops from Ibrollene arrived, supported by armies from the Blue
Land (the so-called Roman Empire) which were led by General Marcus
Augustus Hanfalken. Progress was slow, but it never stopped, rolling like
a thick, gelatinous mass over Nuâsdal.
“Their
own homeland threatened, the Umalquai empress tried to gather her forces
to the defense, yet several generals of the imperial army refused to
follow her orders, claiming that their goal was to defend the ‘real’
Tonomat, not a wayward province across the ocean. If the Umalquai had
stayed true to Vereshyl’s ideas, had strengthened the position of the
priestesses and the faith, things could have been very different, and
perhaps the reconquest of Arrufat would never have succeeded.
“As
it was, the Umalquai were toppled in 2982 A.E., and a new empress
installed herself in Leahcim, claiming – as so many others – to be a
proper descendant of Olagesh. The Olaghid dynasty lasted – more or less
– for some sixty years, always contended. Numerous counter-empresses
claimed the Maiden’s Throne. Countless claims to descent from this or
that historical personality were thrown about, and the empire quivered
under the onslaught of the different empresses.
“A
near-fatal blow was delivered to the Olaghids in 3012 A.E. when the Sacred
Army landed its ships on the southern coast of the empire, at the
mouth of the Lengezre. This army had been raised by the Divine Speaker,
leader of all the believers in our own gods, in Ibrollene, and the Speaker
himself was at its front. (You should read the excellent book “Speaker
and General” by Tamus Waggoner, a Cayaborean Darawk priest, if you wish
to know more about this colorful Divine Speaker.) The Sacred Army
was fueled by a similar fanaticized spirit that had strengthened the
Tonomai forces of so many centuries ago, and it rolled over the river
valleys like the wrath of the true gods. In that very year, Leahcim itself
was taken, and the Olaghid empress had to escape, bringing the Maiden’s
Throne back to the hated Dagba.
“The
Sacred Army stopped its war after conquering the river valleys.
They built fortresses, manned it with strong troops and installed their
own governors in the area. (Five years later, Ibrollene gave up on their
colonies, and the river valleys returned to their own control. They never
fell to the empire again, and today the river valleys maintain both their
independence and a strange mix of faiths. Believers in the One God reside
there as well as those who pray to the old gods and to ours.
“Let
us mercifully ignore the phase of general unrest that followed this
period. The empire was nearly torn apart in the following century, with
provinces detaching themselves and being reconquered, with empresses and
dynasties declaring themselves all-powerful rulers. What is important to
note is that the last Olaghid empress and her entire family were
slaughtered in 3041 A.E.”
Sage
Demercur Ylvain,
Darawk priest, Sacred Academy of Chazevo
(from “A History of Gushémal”, unfinished treatise, ca. 3159 A.E.)
“In
3119 A.E. the civil war came to a head. By that time, all the eastern
provinces along the ocean coast had been lost, as had been the river
valleys to the west. The Arrufat peninsula (or Nuâsdal) had been almost
completely reconquered by the Ibrollenian armies. Only a small part of the
province remained, but it still clung fervently to the name of Nuâsdal
– and to the fact that its ruler was a descendant of the Umalquai
dynasty.
“In
the mainland, the Umalquai had taken the Maiden’s Throne again twice in
the preceding century – called the Second and Third Umalquai dynasty -,
but neither had lasted very long, and in the 32nd century they
were considered eradicated. Everywhere except in Nuâsdal, of course.
“Two
great persons arrived on the scene in that time: In Nuâsdal, Hyero
Ata’lamek took the provincial power, while in Obrosvek, on the Cheselain
river, Atavi Ghalar was a high priestess of the One God. (Atavi claimed to
be descended from her namesake, the maiden’s eldest daughter. Strangely
enough, her claim has been inspected by a large number of scholars – including
Darawk priests! -, and this claim appears to be much stronger than that of
Ghaltara, the first empress, had been!)
“In
rather short order both raised large armies on the mainland, and both
claimed to be infused by the spirit of the One God who demanded that they
reunite the empire. What they did is split Tonomat in two, almost equally
large parts, with nearly the same strength. A civil war was fought in
3119, but quickly it became apparent that any victory would be turned into
a loss by the Tonomai neighbors. The empire would be so weakened that it
would be the easiest of preys for any invaders.
“As
charismatic as the leaders of both sides were, as intelligent they were,
and as reasonable. They decided to meet along with their representatives
and discuss a way out of the situation.
“It
is probably unwise of me to believe the tales that have been written about
this meeting, for they seem so… impossible. They seem like fairy tales,
like stories made up to cover a sober event, but… Oh, well, I am given
to romantic ideas, and so I beg you, dear reader, to take the following
account with a grain of salt.
“The
discussions began, and heated they were. Angry words were shouted by the
members of both dynasties, of both armies, tempers flared. Often the
conversations were about to turn into brawls, or into a battle, as the
soldiers outside were ready to take up arms.
“But
every time either Hyero Ata’lamek or Atavi Ghalar raised their voices to
calm the spirits, quoting from the beiqua, or simply reminding them
of their true purposes. And bit by bit, the two found that their arguments
were the same. They found that their goals were the same.
“And
even slower, but with the force of an avalanche gradually building and
gaining enormous momentum, they came to realize that they needed no
discussions. Moreover, they enjoyed each other’s company. They realized
that the One God had put them on Gushémal for the reason of uniting the
empire indeed, uniting it both as far as the land was concerned – and in
person.
“After
two months of official discussions, the generals of both armies sought for
their leaders who could nowhere be found. To their shock, they found both
Hyero and Atavi – in a bedroom of the palace at Dagba. Another month
later, both were officially married, and Atavi took the Maiden’s Throne
as the new empress, with Hyero her vizier. A new dynasty was founded, one
that merged both the maiden’s descendants and the heirs of Nuâsdal into
the dynasty of the Atalquai.”
Sage
Demercur Ylvain,
Darawk priest, Sacred Academy of Chazevo
(from “A History of Gushémal”, unfinished treatise, ca. 3159 A.E.)
All
in all, the Atalquai dynasty has succeeded in uniting and soldifying the
empire – as it stands today. There have been a few border wars, and in
the early days a few more provinces broke away, but since 3127 A.E. the
Tonomai Empire has stood unchanged.
The
Atalquai re-installed the system of judges, both tera’qua and zu’qua,
whose powers and rights had been neglected in the past century. The
priestesses were returned to their high honor. The army was seriously
reformed, insuring that their pledge of fealty was to the empress of the
Atalquai.
Still,
the empire is far from the glory it had once reached, and that has given
rise to discontent among some Tonomai. Rebels lurk in some areas, hunted
by the imperials whenever possible. They don’t pose a serious threat to
the Atalquai, not least because this dynasty has shown that there is a
fire burning within them.
Perhaps
it is the spirit of the One God, I cannot tell. And neither can I say what
will happen to the Tonomai in the future, whether they will once again
threaten our own lands. Personally I find that somewhat doubtful, for the
Atalquai have reformed the faith of the One God as well. They allow trade
with outsiders – although the beiqua still officially forbids any
contact with unbelievers, that law is never enforced -, they have
permitted embassies of other nations in Dagba and sent their own
emissaries to other countries.
As
the Tonomai faith stands today, it is a more civilized belief, one that is
honorable and respectable. It may very well return to its fundamental and
violent roots, but I hope that reason persists. That, I think, is the true
heritage of the founders of the Atalquai dynasty, both Hyero and Atavi.
Sage
Demercur Ylvain,
Darawk priest, Sacred Academy of Chazevo

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