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You judge us. The things that we have done… but people say… that we’re crazy, but when you wake up in the morning you look at the same news that we do. Do your eyes not fill with horror? This is the world?! This? This is the world we have built for our children? Communities being torn apart. Walls being erected. Because leaders are too impotent to act. Bullies are too addled to lead righteously. We did not ask for this. We were chosen. See, everything is coming to an end. You can feel that. We know you can… See, mankind is weak… and vulnerable. And we are hurtling towards our destruction and no one is willing to do anything about it. We can see that. You can see. And we are not crazy. So what are we supposed to do? We just sit back and await the inevitable? We don’t claim to be a perfect but we saw what was coming and we chose to act. To lead. Because society is broken and the only way forward… is to go back to the way things once were. Innocent and pure. So safe and protected… in our Garden. We can save you. But you have to have faith. - The Father

Something is coming. You can feel it, can’t you? That we are creeping toward the edge… and there will be a reckoning. That is why we started The Project. Because we know what happens next. They will come. They will try to take from us. Take our freedom. Take our faith. We will not let them. We will not let their greed, or their immorality, or their depravity hurt us anymore! There will be no more suffering! Come my children to Edens Gate and feel peace once more! - J.

Good day. I (Evan Komnenos) am here today to announce my intention to seek the Office of Alderman in Helena. I'm sure that each of us has seen our city from a number of viewpoints depending on where we've lived and what we've done. For me it has been as a boy growing up in Kaedrin. And as a young man immigrating to Helena to join the Imperial State Army. To me our city is a living, breathing presence, unimpressed by what others say is impossible, proud of its own success, generous, yes and naive, sometimes wrong, never mean and always impatient to provide a better life for its people in a framework of basic fairness and freedom. I say that the difference between an Orenian and any other kind of person is that an Orenian lives in anticipation of the future because he knows it will be a great place. Other people fear the future as just a repetition of past failures. There's a lot of truth in that. If there is one thing we are sure of, it is that history need not be relived; that nothing is impossible, and that man is capable of improving his circumstances beyond what we are told is fact. There are those in our land today, however, who would have us believe that Helena, like other great civilizations of the past, has reached the zenith of its power; that we are weak and fearful, reduced to bickering with each other and no longer possessed of the will to cope with our problems. Much of this talk has come from leaders who claim that our problems are too difficult to handle. We are supposed to meekly accept their failures as the most which humanity can do. They tell us we must learn to live with less, and teach our children that their lives will be less full and prosperous than ours have been; that the Oren of the coming years will be a place where--because of our past excesses--it will be impossible to dream and make those dreams come true. I don't believe that. And, I don't believe you do either. That is why I am seeking an Alderman seat in the City Assembly. I cannot and will not stand by and see this great country destroy itself. Our leaders attempt to blame their failures on circumstances beyond their control, on false estimates by unknown, unidentifiable experts who rewrite modern history in an attempt to convince us our high standard of living, the result of thrift and hard work, is somehow selfish extravagance which we must renounce as we join in sharing scarcity. I don't agree that our city must resign itself to inevitable decline, yielding its proud position to other hands. I am totally unwilling to see this country fail in its obligation to itself and to the other free peoples of the world. The crisis we face is not the result of any failure of the Orenian spirit; it is failure of our leaders to establish rational goals and give our people something to order their lives by. If I am elected, I shall regard my election as proof that the people of Helena have decided to set a new agenda and have recognized that the human spirit thrives best when goals are set and progress can be measured in their achievement. In recent months leaders in our government have told us that, we, the people, have lost confidence in ourselves; that we must regain our spirit and our will to achieve our national goals. Well, it is true there is a lack of confidence, an unease with things the way they are. But the confidence we have lost is confidence in our government's policies. Our unease can almost be called bewilderment at how our defense strength has deteriorated. The great productivity of our industry is now surpassed by virtually all the major nations who compete with us for world markets. But there remains the greatness of our people, our capacity for dreaming up fantastic deeds and bringing them off to the surprise of an unbelieving world. We--today's living Orenians have in our lifetime fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom and done more to advance the dignity of man than any people who have ever lived. The citizens of this great nation want leadership--yes--but not a "man on a white horse" demanding obedience to his commands. They want someone who believes they can "begin the world over again." A leader who will unleash their great strength and remove the roadblocks the government has put in their way. I want to do that more than anything I've ever wanted. And it's something that I believe with God's help I can do. I believe this nation hungers for a spiritual revival; hungers to once again see honor placed above political expediency; to see government once again the protector of our liberties, not the distributor of gifts and privilege. Government should uphold and not undermine those institutions which are custodians of the very values upon which civilization is founded--religion, education and, above all, family. Government cannot be clergyman, teacher and patriot. It is our servant, beholden to us. We who are privileged to be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword throughout the world. A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and--above all--responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill. I believe that you and I together can keep this rendezvous with destiny. Thank you and good day.

Candidate’s Full Name Evan A. Komnenos Age of the Candidate 22 Street Address of the Candidate Victory St 5

Candidate’s Full Name Evan Komnenos Age of the Candidate 18 Street Address of the Candidate Nicephore 1I

Full Name of the Mayoral Candidate: Evan A. Komnenos Age of the Mayoral Candidate: 18 Street Address of the Mayoral Candidate: Nicephore 1I

SURNAME: Komnenos FIRST NAME: Elene ADDRESS OF RESIDENCE: Basrid 12 DATE OF BIRTH: 1741 Are you registered and eligible to vote in the Holy Orenian Empire? Yes Do you have any other title, peerage or military service that may conflict with becoming a Member of the House of Commons, as per the Edict of Reform (1763)? No If yes, do you understand that you will be required to resign or abdicate from this position should you be elected to the House of Commons, and if this does not occur your seat shall be considered to be vacant?: Yes ((MC NAME)): CasualNuker

SURNAME: Komnenos FIRST NAME: Elene ADDRESS OF RESIDENCE: Basrid 12 DATE OF BIRTH: 1741 Are you registered and eligible to vote in the Holy Orenian Empire? Yes Do you have any other title, peerage or military service that may conflict with becoming a Member of the House of Commons, as per the Edict of Reform (1763)? No If yes, do you understand that you will be required to resign or abdicate from this position should you be elected to the House of Commons, and if this does not occur your seat shall be considered to be vacant?: Yes ((MC NAME)): CasualNuker

Elene bursts out laughing reading this poster! “You really don’t understand my plans for the new district!” she then proceeds to throw the missive in her restaurants ovens.

Name of the Company Member and of its Owner: Helena Noodle Bar. Elene Komnenos Full Name of the Livery Candidate: Elene Komnenos Age of the Livery Candidate: 39 Street Address of the Livery Candidate: Merchant St 2 Nominated for Grocers and Cook

Name of Man: Thomas Aquinas Date of Birth of Man: 1743 Name of Woman: Elene Komnenos Date of Birth of Woman: 1741 Location of Ceremony: Haense Basilica Date of Ceremony (Year): 1779 Name of Clergyman who performed ceremony: Father Goren