Sedition may rock--but it can not roll over an army as disciplined and determined as the Grand Army of Califa. By 841, the rats of rebellion ducked and dodged from the light of the Warlord’s sun, unable to throw any shadow upon the Warlord’s glory.
Within the City’s perimeter there are five Great Houses, each of which is administered by a denizen who mirrors the Will of the Head of the House. Sometimes known by the vulgar as Butlers, these denizens in every way serve the houses and families to which they belong. Although powerful, the denizens are constrained to their Houses by inclination and creation and have little independent existence or action. Their exact antecedents are lost in the flood of history.
Dear Editor:
I must take issue with Sieur Warren Nutri’s Glorious History of Califa which this newspaper has been publishing serially lo these last few weeks. When, as a young nip, I left my drawers strewn about the parlor, my father was wont to ask: “Were you born in a barn?” I pose a similar question of Sieur Nutri: “Did you do your research in a bar?”
Forty-Three Years Ago:
825: Florian Abenfarax de la Carcaza and his most Puissant Armada set Conquer’ng Foot upon Califa’s Shore, Liberating it from the Tyranny of the Pontifexa Ha raaða thus Ushering A Period of Glory and Justice Never Before Seen in This Revolving World.
Inhabitants South of the Slot were tossed from their beds early this morning by an earthquake which struck at the dawning hour of 4:42 a.m. Residents reported that the tremblor, a rolling motion somewhat like a sea swell, lasted upward of ten seconds, the longest such trembling that has been reported in the last year. Although shocks have become more recent of late, they have hitherto been of a more jarring nature, and lasted not more than a second or two. Indeed, previous tremblors have been mild enough to be mistaken for the rumble of a horse-car or a particularly throbbing headache.
Dear Agony Archangel: My roommate insists on invoking the Dancing Demon Suite, the Two-Headed Godform of Excess every morning in the bathroom. I work the late shift at the Califa Sewage Treatment Plant and need all the kip I can get. What should I do? His invocation is very loud.
Signed: In Bed but Not Asleep
My roommate insists on invoking the Dancing Demon Suite, the Two-Headed Godform of Excess every morning in the bathroom. I work the late shift at the Califa Sewage Treatment Plant and need all the kip I can get. What should I do? His invocation is very loud.
