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| - copyright RavenWolf 2003 THE EMPIRE OF SPIRIT AND MIST: A BRIEF HISTORY Taran Lord Ahrenic Professor Emeritus Dept. Anthropology & Sociology Imperial University The Holy City of Shur’batha The Empire of Spirit and Mist The Capital City of the Sacred Empire of Spirit and Mist, is the Holy City of Shur’batha. The Peoples of the Empire of Spirit and Mist are diverse of Race and Species. Many Identify themselves by Clan, Province or Ethnicity, and though slavery was abolished thousands of years ago 'Freman' is still a popular appellation/ identification; all are legitimate designations. To Outsiders, we are often simply 'the Imperials'. The Peoples of the Empire name themselves the Shur'bathii - variously translated as ‘the chosen of Shur’bath’ or ‘the children of Shur’bath’. The Empire so ancient a nation as to have its beginnings lost in the mists of time. And to understand anything about the Empire, one must try to comprehend the Beginning. By current reckoning, it is the Year of Our Lady 6393, and true History begins with the Embodiment, the physical incarnation of the Goddess. The Spirit of the Lady came to be given Flesh in the tiny village of Shu’ur. It is said that this place was Chosen, because small as it was, it had achieved a degree of peaceful coexistence between the disparate races and species of the land, and those that were not represented in the population, had free access, and unprecedented welcome, even the Were-Clans, the Vampyre and Daemon were welcomed. Traditionally, Shu’ur had been the site of a thousand years of battle, as it occupied a cross-roads between three great and often warring nations and a dozen or more aggressive duchies and principalities. The active attitude of peace and acceptance in Shu’ur had been born of this bloodshed and violence, and because of that very same history and the pan-species armies that had fought and died there, the People of Shu’ur now comprised of or had contact with most of the known species. The dedication to peace was absolute, to the point that Shu’ur became a neutral territory, fiercely protected, especially by those sometimes deadly creatures that were welcomed nowhere else. Eventually the common soldiers of all the surrounding nations and principalities refused, even upon pain of execution, to fight in, or trespass upon the Peace of Shu’ur, for the Healers and Priests that flocked there, would heal anyone in need, irrespective of nationality, species or creed. Excerpt from the original copy of The Song of Shu’ur: The Birth of an Empire, held in the Temple of Shur'bath, the Holy City: And Our Lady, the Empress and Goddess watches over us still. And the Lullaby that Called Her to Us is still Sung to drive away the Darkness.
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