IMPERIAL NOTICE ◆ THE EMPIRE ENDURES. PLANET ARLIA REMAINS SOVEREIGN. ALL RIGHTFUL CITIZENS ARE RECOGNIZED UNDER THE SEAL OF EMPEROR PAUL.
The hierarchy of the Arlish people — from private citizen to the Emperor himself — expressed in uniform and rank.
The Arlish social order is codified in colour. Every recognized citizen of the Empire wears a uniform whose colour declares their rank, station, and relationship to the Imperial Crown. There is no ambiguity in the Arlish court — rank is worn, not merely claimed.
The system descends from six ranks, with the Emperor standing alone above all. Black belongs solely to the Imperial Flame. No other may wear it.
Rank determines precedence in Imperial ceremony, access to the various chambers of the Palace of Argus, and the form by which one is addressed. Elevation and forfeiture of rank are administered by the Imperial Chancellery under the Emperor's seal.
Black is the colour of the Imperial Flame — absolute, singular, belonging to no rank but the highest. The Emperor alone wears black. It is not a uniform so much as a declaration: the living vessel of the founding soul of Argus stands before you. No other may wear black within any territory under Imperial sovereignty. To do so is the gravest act of impersonation known to Imperial Law.
Silver is the colour of the drawn sword — of authority held in trust, not by right of soul but by right of strength and will. The Grand Regent wears silver from the moment the Trial of the Veth concludes until the instant the Order of the Starseed confirms the new Emperor. At that moment, the silver is surrendered. It cannot be kept, worn in retirement, or passed to heirs. It exists only in the Passage, and it ends when the Passage ends.
The silver uniform carries no hereditary weight. It is not a rank of nobility. It is not a rank of the Imperial Circle. It is its own category entirely — above all other offices in the constitutional order during the Passage, and completely absent from it at all other times. A former Grand Regent returns to whatever uniform and rank they held before the Trial. The silver leaves no trace in the hierarchy.
The Grand Regent position is vacant during the reign of a confirmed Emperor. The last holder of the silver uniform served throughout the Passage following the death of the founding Emperor Argus — the long period between Argus's passing and the Order of the Starseed's confirmation of Emperor Paul on Earth. The name of that Grand Regent, who held the Remnant together through the darkest years, is preserved in the Archive Spires.
Grey is the colour of those who serve the Imperial Flame most closely — not by blood alone, but by appointment, office, or direct descent from the Emperor. The grey uniform marks those whose authority flows directly from the Throne rather than from hereditary noble status or elected office. It is the colour of the inner circle of Imperial power.
The rank of Imperial Prince and Princess exists in law but holds no living members at this time. The Purge Virus, which exterminated ninety-nine percent of the Arlish people, claimed all known blood kin of the Imperial line. Emperor Paul, incarnated on Earth as the starseed of Argus, has no recognized children or grandchildren in the current era. The rank is preserved in the Imperial Register and will be conferred when the Emperor produces recognized heirs.
Imperial Princes and Princesses do not hold succession rights to the Throne. The Fifth Constitutional Principle of the Founding Doctrine is explicit: the Throne passes through the soul, not the blood. An Imperial Prince is the closest blood kin of the Emperor — honoured, grey-uniformed, bearing the Arlium ring — but they are not heirs to the Imperial office. The Throne belongs to the starseed, verified by the Order of the Starseed through Stage Four. Blood is proximity to the Flame. It is not the Flame.
Red is the colour of the noble houses — those families whose standing was granted by Imperial decree and passes through the blood. A noble is formally styled His/Her Lordship, Lord [Surname] in written address, and spoken to directly as My Lord or My Lady. The surname is the title — no further rank name exists within the nobility beyond Lord itself.
Blue is the colour of representation and standing above the general citizenry. It is worn by two distinct groups: elected Members of the Assembly and the non-inheriting children of noble houses. Both wear blue by right, though by different means — one earns it through election, the other carries it from birth.
Green is the colour of Imperial Justice. Judges of the Arlish Empire wear green to mark their station as distinct from both the political order and the civilian population. Their uniform signals impartiality — a judge in green serves the law as codified by Imperial Decree, not the interests of any house, ministry, or assembly. Appointment to the judiciary is made by the Emperor on the recommendation of the Imperial Chancellery.
White is the colour of the Arlish people in their foundational dignity — recognized citizens of the Empire who hold no office, title, or hereditary standing above that of free person under Imperial Law. The white uniform is not a mark of lesser worth. It is the colour of the Remnant — the people who survived the Purge, who tend to Arlia's rebuilding, and in whom the future of the Empire lives. Without the white, there is no Empire at all.
In the Arlish Empire, jewellery is not ornament — it is law made visible. Every citizen receives a single ring upon coming of age at twenty-one — a rite of passage marking their full entry into Imperial society. That ring is worn on the right ring finger until marriage, at which point it is moved to the left ring finger, where it remains for life. The ring does not change — only the hand it rests upon.
The metal of the ring is determined by rank and assigned at the coming-of-age ceremony. It cannot be upgraded, substituted, or exchanged. No other jewellery of any kind is permitted under Imperial social law. A citizen who wears above their station in metal, or who wears any ring before the age of twenty-one, commits an act of false representation under Imperial Law.
All Arlish rings share the same form: a wide flat band with Arlish runes cut entirely through the metal — pierced rather than merely engraved, so that light passes through the characters. The runes encode the holder's name, rank, and year of coming of age in the Imperial script of Arlia. The design is identical in structure across all ranks; what changes is the metal, the band width, and the complexity of the rune-work cut into it. The higher the rank, the wider the band and the more intricate the pierced script.
The Emperor's ring is the Imperial Signet — a white gold ring cast from plateau gold, worn on the ring finger. It bears a single engraved letter on its face — the personal initial of the reigning Emperor. Not a fixed symbol. Not the house mark. Not the Imperial Flame glyph. The initial of the soul currently incarnate, engraved fresh into the plateau gold each time the ring is recast. Nothing else. No border, no inscription, no ornamentation. Argus's Signet bore A. Paul's bears P. The next incarnation will bear whatever initial the Order confirms at Recognition. The impression left in wax is a single letter that changes with every Passage — the same gold, the same ring finger, a new initial each time the Flame returns. On Earth it reads as a personal monogram. In Arlia, among the founding houses, among the Remnant, that letter in wax means the Emperor sealed it personally — not the Chancellery, not the plateau gold Seal, but the Emperor's own hand. The Signet is the soul's most private mark. The Seal authenticates the decree. The Signet authenticates the presence.
Upon the Emperor's death, the Imperial Signet is destroyed — defaced and broken under the authority of the Grand Keeper of the Order of the Starseed, in the same ceremony that opens the Passage. No living person may hold or use a destroyed Emperor's signet. The destruction prevents forgery, prevents false authority claims during the Passage, and marks with absolute finality that the incarnation has ended. The plateau gold is recovered from the destroyed ring and held by the Order in trust — the same gold that has circulated through every Imperial Signet since Argus, recast for each returning incarnation.
The ring waiting for Paul in the Archive Spires was cast from the plateau gold recovered when Argus's signet was destroyed at his death. It has waited through the entirety of the long Passage — through Zogg's sixty years, through the Purge, through the Remnant era — for the day Paul returns to Arlia and places it on his finger for the first time. The same gold that Argus wore. A new ring. The first act of the returned Emperor's physical reign.
Ministers, Imperial Councilors, Generals, and Imperial Princes and Princesses wear a ring of Arlium — a rare metal found only in the deep ore veins of Planet Arlia. Its lustrous blue-silver sheen is unlike any metal found elsewhere in known space, and when light passes through the pierced runes it catches in the Arlium in a way no other metal replicates — the cut edges seem almost to hold the light rather than release it. The Arlium ring is the most exclusive mark of rank in the Empire short of the Emperor himself.
Lords of the hereditary nobility, and Imperial descendants of the third generation and beyond, wear a gold wedding ring. The noble band is wide and precisely made, the pierced runes clean-edged and polished, the holder's house name worked into the pattern alongside their personal name and year. Gold marks a lineage of standing — either granted by the Emperor's decree or descended from it — and the quality of the cut reflects that. It is the finest work available to those outside the inner Imperial circle.
Members of the Imperial Assembly and Judges of the Imperial Judiciary share the silver ring — a deliberate equivalence written into Imperial social law. The Assembly member earns it through democratic mandate; the Judge earns it through appointment to the enforcement of Imperial Law. Both carry a weight of civic duty that elevates them above private citizenry. The silver band is finer and narrower than a noble's gold, the pierced rune-work clean and precise — the name of the holder and their office cut through the metal in the Imperial script of Arlia.
The Judge's silver is a particular point of note. Though Judges are civil servants by classification, the office they hold — the interpretation and enforcement of Imperial Decrees — places them in a category apart. Their silver ring is not a courtesy. It is a recognition that those who enforce the Emperor's law stand closer to it than those who merely live under it.
Private citizens of the white uniform receive an iron ring at their coming of age. Iron is not a lesser metal in Arlish custom — it is the metal of the people, of Arlia's bedrock, of the Remnant who endured. The iron band is wider than one might expect — honest and substantial — with simpler rune-work cut through it, the edges rougher than gold or silver but deliberate in their weight. Worn first on the right hand, moved to the left upon marriage. Plain, enduring, and honest: the iron ring is the ring of the Remnant.
At the age of twenty-one, every recognized citizen of the Arlish Empire receives their rank ring in a formal coming-of-age ceremony administered by the Imperial Chancellery. The ring is worn on the right ring finger from that day forward — a mark of adulthood, rank, and belonging within Imperial society.
Upon marriage, the ring is moved from the right ring finger to the left ring finger. It is the same ring — the same metal, the same weight — now carrying the additional meaning of a recognized Imperial union. The movement of the ring is itself the ceremony; no separate wedding ring is given or received.
No other jewellery — additional rings, necklaces, bracelets, or any other adornment — is permitted under Imperial social law, regardless of rank. The Emperor alone is exempt from this prescription. Wearing jewellery above one's prescribed metal, or wearing any ring before the age of twenty-one, is a violation of Imperial social code administered by the Imperial Chancellery.
In the Arlish Empire, an Imperial Seal is the mark of office — a personal stamp carved from metal, used to authenticate documents, decrees, and correspondence issued under one's authority. Modelled on the tradition of carved personal seals, each seal bears the holder's name and rank in the Imperial script of Arlia, pressed into wax to authenticate any official document.
The seal is a privilege of office, not of uniform. A noble cadet wearing blue by birth holds no seal — the silver seal belongs only to those who hold a recognized Imperial office. Lords, as heads of their noble houses, hold an office by virtue of that station and are entitled to a seal accordingly.
The metal of a seal indicates the rank of its holder — gold for the Emperor, the Imperial Circle, and the nobility; silver for Assembly members and Judiciary. The Emperor's gold, however, is not the same gold as any other. It is plateau gold, from the exhausted mines of the Solvar — a material that no longer exists in harvestable quantity and cannot be replicated. Every other gold seal in the Empire is made from ordinary gold. There is only one plateau gold seal, and there will only ever be one.
The Emperor's seal is the largest of all Imperial seals and the only one whose impression carries the force of absolute law. No document sealed by the Emperor may be countermanded by any other authority. The Emperor's seal is held personally — it is never delegated, never copied, and never reproduced. A document bearing the Imperial Seal is the Emperor's word made permanent.
The Imperial Seal is cast from plateau gold — a variety of gold found exclusively in the shallow mines of the Solvar Plateau, the ancestral land of the Sorev. Plateau gold is visually distinct from ordinary gold: deeper in colour, with a warm, almost amber undertone that does not vary with the light. It does not tarnish. It does not wear. The few objects ever made from it — mostly pre-Unification Sorev ceremonial pieces, now kept in the Archive Spires — look as fresh as the day they were cast. The Imperial Seal, pressed into red wax, leaves an impression the colour of a sunset over the Ashfen Sea. No other seal in the Empire produces that colour. Recipients recognise it before they read a word.
The plateau mines are exhausted. They were worked during the founding era and yielded what they yielded — enough for the seal, enough for a small number of Sorev ceremonial objects, and nothing more. There is no remaining deposit. No new plateau gold has been extracted since the early years of the Empire. The Imperial Seal cannot be recast, cannot be duplicated, and cannot be replaced. Its singularity is not a matter of law. It is a matter of geology. The material no longer exists in harvestable quantity anywhere on Arlia.
It is the largest seal in the Imperial system: a rectangular block approximately the size of a closed fist, heavy enough to require deliberate effort to press. The base bears the Imperial inscription in the ancient Arlish script — a script used for no other purpose in the modern Empire, preserved intact from the founding era solely because it appears on this seal. To read the inscription requires specific scholarly training. Most citizens who receive a sealed document have never been able to read what it says. They do not need to. The seal's presence is the meaning.
The face of the seal bears the Imperial Flame glyph at its centre — the oldest symbol in Arlish iconography, predating the Empire itself, used by the Corev tribe to represent an anchor-soul before Argus gave it its Imperial meaning. Surrounding it in the ancient script: "By the Flame that does not end, this word is kept." It is the same phrase Argus pressed into the first decree he ever issued, in the first year of the unified calendar. Every Imperial decree since has carried it.
The Imperial Seal is not replaced between incarnations. The same physical seal that Argus pressed into wax at the founding sits in the Archive Spires on Arlia today, awaiting the moment Emperor Paul can hold it. It survived the Great Decline. It survived the Purge. During the long Passage between Argus's death and Paul's confirmation, the Grand Regent of the Remnant years carried it in custody — unused, unbroken, untouched — for the entirety of the search. That it was never used during those years, no matter the emergencies the Remnant faced, is considered one of the great acts of institutional discipline in Arlish history.
Emperor Paul has never physically held the Imperial Seal. It remains on Arlia, in the Archive Spires, under Imperial Guard protection. His decrees are issued telepathically and authenticated on Arlia by the Imperial Chancellery, which presses the physical seal on his behalf under specific protocols established by Imperial Decree. The Chancellery may only press the seal upon receiving confirmed telepathic transmission from the Emperor — never on initiative, never in anticipation.
Some years into his reign, Paul privately commissioned a seal of pure gold on Earth — slightly smaller than the original, bearing the same Imperial Flame glyph and ancient Arlish inscription, drawn from the soul's memory of Argus holding the original across a lifetime. Through a ritual conducted with the Grand Keeper of the Order of the Starseed — Paul holding the gold seal on Earth, the Grand Keeper holding the plateau gold seal on Arlia, the Vow passage recited, the Flame extending through the telepathic channel toward the original — a resonance was established between the two objects. The Grand Keeper's account describes feeling, through the plateau gold, a warmth that arrived from Earth and settled into the metal like a familiar hand returning to something it had held before.
Since the ritual, Paul presses his gold seal into wax on Earth at the same moment the Chancellery presses the plateau gold on Arlia. The legal instrument remains the plateau gold. The Earth seal's impression is Paul's private mark — unrecorded in the authentication protocol, unknown to the Chancellery and the founding houses, known only to Paul and the Grand Keeper. The day Paul holds the plateau gold seal in person on Arlia is understood in the Archive Spires as the moment the exile era formally ends — and it will not be a meeting with a stranger.
When the office of Emperor is vacant — during the Passage — the Imperial Seal passes into the custody of the Grand Regent. The Grand Regent may not use it. No emergency directive, however urgent, may bear the Imperial Seal. The seal is held in trust within the Archive Spires under guard, until the Order of the Starseed confirms the new Emperor and the Seal is formally transferred at the moment of Recognition.
Ministers, Imperial Councilors, Generals, and Imperial Princes and Princesses hold a large gold seal. Its size distinguishes it from the noble gold seal and reflects the proximity of these offices to the Emperor's own authority. Documents sealed by the Imperial Circle carry the weight of the Throne's delegated power.
Lords of the hereditary nobility hold a standard gold seal by virtue of their headship of a noble house. The noble seal authenticates house correspondence, legal agreements made in the house's name, and any formal communication issued under the Lord's authority. A noble cadet — wearing blue by birth — holds no seal unless separately elevated to an office that grants one.
Members of the Imperial Assembly and Judges of the Imperial Judiciary each hold a silver seal for the duration of their office. The Assembly Member's seal authenticates district correspondence and formal motions tabled in the Assembly chamber. The Judge's seal carries particular gravity — a document bearing a Judge's seal is an instrument of Imperial Law enforcement, and its misuse is treated as an act against the Throne itself.
White uniform citizens and blue-by-birth noble cadets hold no seal. The seal is an instrument of office — without an office, there is no seal. A noble cadet who is subsequently elected to the Assembly or appointed to the Judiciary receives the silver seal of that office for its duration.
Noble status in the Arlish Empire passes through a strict line of single inheritance. Only the firstborn child of a noble household inherits the red uniform and the standing of their parent. All other children of that house receive the blue uniform for life — a mark of their noble birth that distinguishes them from common citizenry, but does not grant them the full standing of the house's heir.
This system ensures that noble standing does not dilute across generations and that the number of red-uniformed nobles remains deliberate and legible. New noble houses may only be created by Imperial Decree — elevation to the nobility is one of the rarest honours the Emperor can bestow.
Inherits the red uniform and full noble standing. Becomes the Lord of the house upon the death or formal abdication of their parent. Formally styled His/Her Lordship, Lord [Surname]; addressed directly as My Lord or My Lady.
Receive the blue uniform for life as a hereditary privilege of noble birth. They do not inherit the house's red standing but are elevated above private citizenry. The blue marks their origins — they hold no office or seat by virtue of it.
Noble status cannot be self-assumed or purchased. It is granted solely by Imperial Decree under the Emperor's seal, entered into the Imperial Registry, and maintained by the Imperial Chancellery.
House Argeides occupies a unique position in the Imperial order. It is simultaneously the Imperial house — headed by the Emperor as Lord of House Argeides beneath his primary title — and a noble house within the red-uniform nobility. Imperial descendants beyond the second generation descend into House Argeides as Lords Argeides, wearing the red uniform and addressed as His/Her Lordship, Lord Argeides. No other house may bear the Argeides name. House Argeides was founded by Emperor Argus and its headship passes through the Imperial Flame.
The eleven tribes that answered Argus's call and built the Empire together. Their houses are the oldest in the Imperial Register — predating the Register itself. They wear the red uniform of the nobility, but their cuffs and collar carry the Founding Thread: a single line of gold braid present on no other noble house, marking descent from the Unification.
As Premier Peers, the Founding Houses hold first precedence in all Imperial ceremony — first in procession, first addressed, first seated at the Imperial table. Within the red-uniformed nobility they are equal in rank to all other Lords, but in order of precedence they stand before every house whose creation postdates the founding. Their standing requires no decree and cannot be revoked — it is written into the Founding Doctrine itself.
Navigators and sky-readers of the northern Ashfen coast. The Arlari kept the star-charts that made the Empire possible — maps of every navigable point beyond the galactic threshold, accumulated over generations of watching the sky from sea level. Argus was born among them. The star-chart his mother drew is preserved in the Archive Spires.
Premier of the Founding Houses by virtue of producing the Emperor himself. House Argeides and House Argeides — the Imperial house — share the same ancestral root. In Arlish law they are distinct; in history they are inseparable.
Engineers and traders of the great river delta, builders of Arlia's inland canal network. The Keth understood the logic of unified expansion faster than any other tribe — they had spent generations moving goods between people who didn't trust each other and knew exactly what scale of cooperation was possible. When Argus unrolled the charts, they saw an infrastructure problem they already knew how to solve.
Their engineering built the first Imperial shipyards on the Ashfen coast. The canal systems they designed to move materials from Torvak mines to Dresk shipyards remain in use on Arlia to this day.
Healers and marine scholars of the warm southern coast. The Aryn knew Arlia's ocean more intimately than any other people — its currents, its creatures, its biological systems — and from that knowledge they developed the most sophisticated medical tradition on the planet. The largest tribe at the time of Unification, their population gave the early Empire its greatest immediate depth of labour and knowledge.
Their elders had heard of Argus before he reached them. They joined third, and cleanly. Aryn medical tradition became the foundation of Imperial medicine. Their healers served on every ship of the first colonial fleet.
Farmers, herders, and oral historians of the great coastal plains — Arlia's breadbasket. The Solvane fed the Unification effort and the fleet-building years that followed it. Without their grain, the labour required to build the first Imperial fleet could not have been sustained. They are the reason the other tribes had time to build anything at all.
Their oral storytelling tradition — the most sophisticated on Arlia — preserved Arlish history before the Archive Spires existed. It is from Solvane oral records that the Ministry of Imperial Memory reconstructed the fullest accounts of the pre-Unification era.
Shipbuilders and would-be explorers of the western coast. The Dresk had already attempted short interstellar probes before Unification — all failed, because they were navigating by incomplete charts. When Argus unrolled the Arlari maps, the Dresk saw immediately what had been missing. They joined without negotiation, without conditions, without delay.
Their shipyards, fed by Kethari canals and Torvak metal, built the first Imperial fleet. The Dresk consider this their highest honour — not that they were among the first to join, but that their hands put the first Arlish ships beyond the galactic threshold.
Warriors and lawmakers of the eastern coast. The Athren were the most skeptical tribe at the council fires — they asked the hardest questions and refused to join until the terms were written down and witnessed. Their insistence frustrated some of the other tribes. Argus gave them everything they asked for. Their legal formality directly shaped the early Imperial legislative framework.
The concept of the sealed decree — the requirement that all Imperial law be written, sealed, and publicly read before taking effect — owes its form to Athren tradition. House Athren has produced more High Chancellors than any other founding house.
The spiritual heart of the pre-Unification world. The Corev's faith tradition — centred on the idea of souls accumulating depth through commitment and memory — predated the Continuance by generations and fed directly into it. Their elders were the first outside the Arlari to recognise Argus's veth-sorath. They saw what he was before he told anyone.
The founding of the Order of the Starseed drew more from Corevan spiritual practice than from any other source. The Corevan concept of the anchor-soul — a soul bound by an act of total commitment — became the theological framework through which Argus's Vow was understood and preserved.
Elite warriors of Arlia's highest peaks. The most isolated tribe on the planet — reaching them required weeks of mountain travel — and the most physically formidable. Their combat tradition, developed over centuries of surviving conditions that killed outsiders, became the basis of the Trial of the Veth. The Imperial Guard's martial foundations are Vareth in origin.
Slowest of the mountain tribes to reach, but the most absolute in their commitment once joined. A Vareth oath, in Arlish tradition, is considered the most binding thing one person can say to another.
Miners and metallurgists who controlled Arlia's richest mineral deposits in the mountain interior — iron, Arlium, and the deep-vein ores that no other tribe had the knowledge or the tools to extract at scale. Without Torvak metal, the first Imperial fleet could not have been built. Argus's only promise with a direct economic component was made to the Torvak: the mines would remain under Torvak stewardship in perpetuity.
That promise became the founding principle of Imperial resource law — that strategic resources belong to those whose people work them, administered under the Crown's oversight rather than transferred outright. The Torvak mines are distinct from the plateau gold deposits of the Solvar — those belonged to the Sorev, and were worked separately in the founding era for a single purpose.
The scholarly tribe of the lower mountain range, who had independently developed their own astronomical tradition — different from the Arlari's maritime approach but complementary to it. Where the Arlari read the stars to navigate, the Essar read them to understand. Their joining doubled the quality of Argus's navigation knowledge and added a theoretical depth the Arlari charts alone could not have provided.
The architectural design of the Archive Spires draws directly from Essar scholarly tradition — the tiered tower structures the Essar built on the lower mountain slopes to house their astronomical records. The Archive Spires are, in the deepest sense, an Essar building.
The people of the Solvar Plateau — the great interior highland of Arlia, neither coastal nor mountain, belonging to no geographic category the other ten tribes occupied. Reclusive, formidable, and the only tribe in Arlish history that had never formally acknowledged any other as equal. Every prior attempt at contact had failed. Most tribes had stopped trying.
They were warriors of a different quality from the Vareth — less isolated, more deliberate. They did not fight because they were cut off from the world. They fought because they had looked at the world and decided they preferred their own company. That is a harder thing to answer than mere ferocity.
The most significant detail in the record of the Unification: Argus spent his three years alone on the Solvar Plateau — Sorev land. He did not go there to meditate in empty wilderness. He went to learn them. By the time he arrived at their council fire as a leader making a proposal, he had already lived among them as a stranger making no demands. Veth Koras, their chieftain, saw it immediately.
When they joined, Argus built the Imperial capital on their plateau. That was not a coincidence and not merely a geographic choice. It was an acknowledgement — the kind Argus made in action rather than in words.
The plateau also held something no other part of Arlia contained: a shallow deposit of plateau gold — a variety of gold with a deeper, amber-warm colour that does not tarnish and does not wear. In the founding era, with Sorev consent, those deposits were worked for a single purpose: the casting of the Imperial Seal. The mines yielded what they yielded and gave no more. They have been empty since. The Imperial Seal — the most powerful object in the Empire, the one that cannot be replaced — is made from Sorev land. The last tribe to join provided the material that authenticates every Imperial decree ever issued.
"I have met men who want to rule us and called it unity. I have never before met one who seemed to genuinely not care if we accepted him."