Fiat Lux

Cookies to the person who gets both the author and the book:

"This all things devours,
birds, beasts, trees, flowers,
gnaws iron, bites steel, grinds hard stones to meal,
slays king, ruins town, and beats high mountain down."

And:

"Thirty white horses on a red hill.
First they champ then they stamp,
and then they stand still."

So now those of you who know I do a little personal writing will know something of what I write:

"Citizens of the Empire, heed my words and take listen to my warnings! The Regicide-Diarch shall doom us all! You have taken upon you a leader to whom that most sacred of bonds, blood and blood-kin are as nothing. The Axhamani speak of a curse when children reign over us, but you have surpassed the imagination of their sacred book, for less a child have you to reign over you than he who shall sow disaster and all of us shall reap our doom.

Our society is based on the Sacred Dicta of the Learned, so how then is it that we cannot here speak of a great breach of this? You put into power a leader whose character is seen in the callousness with which he fired on a simple Freedman-Protest. If we cannot trust one of our own leading family with the bastard children of our dead Diarch, then I ask you citizens of the Empire if we can hold to the pact we made with the House of Underlan?

Mark my words, if we tolerate this madman, who slays his father and Freedman alike, so that neither the great nor the lowly are free, then we ourselves deserve our doom. For the doom itself has been passed. In 20 years I foresee a terrifying cataclysm, for the avarice of the Regicide-Diarch and the folly of our own leaders, who adhere to this foolish idea that from birth a leader is foreordained to rule unless that leader is ruthless enough, and who mistake cruelty for virtue and savagery for justice will bring something that we have not foreseen. And the Builders of Fear themselves shall find that they are no longer in control."

The Augur H'ven Mulhani from one of my writings.