“Popolo, Socio, Imperio” People,
Society, Imperium
The Founders were cast upon a strange land by storm and
magic, a long shore a thousand leagues to the left and the right (The Marbordo
Longa “The Long Seacoast”), to the north a narrow sea (Marnia “Our Sea”)
protected by the Great Reef and beyond the Great Ocean, to the south tall
mountain ranges and the Great Escarpment divided by the Grand Pass beyond which
the Horse Clans rule. But a land of chaos and danger, beset by the monster
spawn of the Mallumo (“The Murk” or “the Darklight”) and competing barbarians,
eager to despoil and subjugate all others. In distress, peoples joined and under an
emperor a new society was constituted. The first city was founded, to protect
and prosper farmers, craftsmen, and merchants, guarded by a legion, inspired by
religion, corrected by judges, and lead by an emperor. And in victory and
prosperity, this form replicated and colonized across the Marbordo Longa, and
the monsters pushed back, the barbarians given the choice to join our way or
turn away and seek other lands, and our empire begun.
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