IMAGINED EMPERORS OF OREN

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Imagined Emperors of Oren.
OR;

A Chronicle on the Strife and Dissension within the united Empire.

 

As so orated by Ide Haraccus I from the Southern Isle, who in fear of death at the hands of the Orenian government did author this work.

 

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I ask: what did rapidly subvert and transform the powerful empire into the rump-state and sovereigns? Certainly the indignation of God will be provoked by multiple injustices against Him. I have seen during my time numerous men meddling with the sanctified offices of the princedom and the empire and rashly setting them upon their shoulders beyond their God-given right. I have seen others of my own nation consign my own books of the laws to the flames and are not afraid to tear them apart if the laws or canon-scrolls fall into their hands.

 

During the time of Emperor Augustus the Imperial laws were ordered from the empire and all the men of his realm bound by them, the letter of these laws by the appointment of God and the sanctification of the Canon, the law was rendered all the stronger in its virtue by those who in their sedition endeavoured to impair it. There has been little stability since these days of unity of man and man, man and God, common and noble. Each conflicted debases the next.

 

The apex of this disunity and the fulcrum of the swinging blades of conflicts that had plagued humanity since the war of the two emperors was within the palais Helena itself; for the blood of Oren, Carrion and Sarkoz took to arms against each-other, swords drawn towards oath-sworn brothers and comrades, to reach for the crown of Boy-Emperor Johannes as it dropped from his grasp.

 

Who among the many thousands desiring to rule wishes to be like poor Johannes Achilles Cascadia? Who wished the law and the will of the masses to be dominant democratically, as per the Vessian tradition, over himself and the people?  Yet all men who sieged upon Helena ought to have been satisfied with that which Emperor Johannes sought for his people, that is, if he acquired for himself only a few bare coins from the booty. 

 

For if these usurping men of Sarkoz and Tiber and Carrion blood took care to order those things which the law declared, the people would acquiesce in obeying to any of them so readily that there would not be iniquity and dispute in the community; and the emperor ought certainly to satisfy the people of his emperor. This wishful equity would never be reached by the choosing of a new emperor as among his newly appearing subjects, if but only due to the clawing proclivities of those of feudal stock.

 

But what of these men of feudal stock? Those craven beasts of capricious blood who grip and grip again at the station of political office are exactly those good men of governance should seek to dismiss. The depth of their fidelity and faith is as thin and lipid as the water of the wombs they so blasphemously defiliate themselves from. Their own surreptitious deposing of the rightful king of Helena is the case in point of their blasphemous sedition if but only by being an example of only enforcing the will of the emperor when it can so benefit themselves; and to the loss of good Tiber, his divine right to kingship as proclaimed by the emperor provided no such boon.

 

Godspeed you imagined politicians, you privy council of phantoms. Let your confederacy of nobodies be as strong as it is ambiguous. Let this stranger’s gallery of previously unseen courtiers who so represent nothing of the people of Oren try to twist the limbs of their boy-emperor puppet into some semblance of public spirit, for an emperor who is not serving of his people - as only a man chosen by them could be - is but a crowned ass.

 

GOD RESTORE TIBERIUS

 

Ide Haraccus I, Serene Prince of Ves, Jurist of Law Imperial and Foreign, paterfamilias of the Rassidun, man of letters.

 

[Enlightenment 2300]

Demetrio laughs as he read the work, "I haven't had a good-a laugh in too long, amico, I wish you well!"

[BenevolentManacles 2232]

The Archchancellor cancels the assassins.