The following is an abridgent of the history between the Erupting Dawn Empire and the Sacred Fla Theocracy.
The Dozing Salamander continent, like every continent, was ho to a myriad of empires and kingdoms that were known to rip into each other for no reason other than plain old politics and resources.
However, there was precisely one war that had been going on for literal centuries and had a very good reason behind it: the War of the Sacred Fla.
The participants of this war were two factions known as the Sacred Fla Theocracy and the Erupting Dawn Empire.
On one side, the Sacred Fla Theocracy was a theocratic nation. obviously, they worshiped a literal sacred fla (rumored to be the Mother Sun Fla) known to cure the sick, heal the wounded, and overall protect the place from all manner of evil beings. As such, the various sects and subsects of the theocracy varied in terms of temperant and practice, but they were all united in their love for the sacred fla. Additionally,This theocratic nation was led by the Sacred Spark Speaker, an avatar of the sacred fla that was elevated to the status of Aether Saint and was quite literally chosen by it to serve as both its supposed voice and protector.
Emphasis on the word "supposed."
On the other side, the Erupting Dawn Empire was...a touch more sadistic. Under the leadership of Emperor xazuma, this once small kingdom that only constituted about five thousand people and a small mountain kingdom had ballooned into a massive empire that had destroyed and absorbed thirteen other kingdoms and two other empires. As such, many of the noble houses that composed the empire’s various political structures were actually fallen royal families. On top of that, Emperor xazuma was a proper Aether Saint ard with a very powerful Platinum tiered aether treasure.
And that right there was the rub and reason for the ongoing eternal war between the two civilizations.
The more refined soone’s cultivation beca, the higher the tier they rose, and the pickier they had to be in regard to the type of aether they were supposed to consu. Or rather, it would be more accurate to say that only increasingly more potent and pure aether dicines and treasures had even an inkling of a chance of affecting them anymore.
Emperor xazuma cultivated a Major World Grade aether formula that had the ability to grow exponentially as long as he absorbed stronger and stronger aether flas from all sorts of sources.
And lo and behold, there was a very powerful aether fla in an empire that was across his empire’s border.
To give Emperor xazuma the benefit of the doubt, though, he did try to use diplomacy and gifts to secure a portion of the Mother Sun Fla, but he was refused.
Multiple tis.
Once he was rejected for the tenth ti in a row, with the very understandable reasoning that the Mother Sun Fla was sacred to the Sacred Fla Theocracy, Emperor xazuma decided that the best way to get what he wanted was to go on an all-out invasion.
Emperor xazuma personally led the first assault, leading to his empire claiming over half of the territory that was originally the Sacred Fla Theocracy’s in a single year. However, that was about as far as he and his forces would be able to go for the next sixteen years.
Despite his best efforts, despite multiple champions and talented generals rising and falling one after the other, none of them were able to get any further.
Why?
Because as it turned out, there were a lot of people, and a lot of other kingdoms, who had benefitted from the kindness of the Sacred Fla Theocracy. As such, they were more than willing to band together and push back against the Erupting Dawn Empire.
However, this all amounted to what was essentially a stalemate.
A stalemate that could easily be tipped if a certain outside force of nature decided to support one side or the other.
...I wonder who that force of nature is...
"Logos, Pathos. What the fuck am I staring at?" Zhen Liu asked as he stared at what appeared to be a pair of giant scrolls that reached from the ceiling to the floor of the library’s main hall.
"Right..." Zhen Liu hissed.
After Axer had inford Zhen Liu and the others about how they were going to need the Mother Sun Fla to perform the simple-sounding task of rging the remnants of Lythero’s swords together, there was a bit of a debate amongst them about how they were going to do just that.
Jinju Ren, Rianna, Olstenna, and Alice were of the opinion that the best course of action was to pick one of the sides and assist them in their respective war efforts. The kaijin were essentially armies unto themselves, and they could be easily used to strike at the heart of either side. At which point, during the chaos of battle, they could simply steal so of the fla and fuck off with the power of Zhen Liu’s [Key to Anywhere].
On the other hand, Alicia, Zhen Xing, Zhen Tai, and Harriet were of the opinion that they could just use diplomacy to at least borrow the Mother Sun Fla. They didn’t have any bad blood, and Zhen Liu did have the uncanny ability to get along with...most people. Sotis.
And if worse ca to worse, they could be bailed out by the kaijin.
As for Lythero, Antonio, Taurna, and Lyona, the natives of the continent, they wanted to be as far away as possible from the ongoing war between the Erupting Dawn Empire and Sacred Fla Theocracy, because they had heard stories about how brutal that conflict was.
Not only that, but they had experience talking to forr soldiers and slaves that were on the frontlines of that shit.
It wasn’t great.
However, the ultimate decision for all of this still ca down to Zhen Liu, so he decided that the best course of action for the ti being was to weigh the pros and cons of all of these choices with the help of the curators.
Thankfully for him, they had gone above and beyond when they had created the lists explaining the reasons why he should support one side over the other.
Unfortunately, the lists were also incredibly long.
Zhen Liu may have had enhanced intelligence because of all the cultivation shit he’s been doing, but he could still find such tasks to be incredibly fucking boring.
"Ugh...let’s get this over with."
Regardless of his griping, though, Zhen Liu still proceeded to look through the lists.
It took him a half hour to look through both lists, understand the pros and cons of both, and co to a singular conclusion after taking in all of the information.
"Holy shit, I can’t support either of these motherfuckers," Zhen Liu concluded. "They both suck! Well...hmmm."
Evidently, things weren’t as black and white as so history books made this conflict out to be.
...The following is the historical details that were left out...
Despite it appearing as if the Erupting Dawn Empire was the aggressor in this war between them and the Sacred Fla Theocracy, the truth was...a bit more nuanced.
The Mother Sun Fla, which served as the heart of the theocracy, was actually originally from a small village called Little Dawn, the village that would beco the Erupting Dawn Empire’s capital.
The story goes, at least amongst the tribespeople and old wisen, that the Mother Sun Fla was stolen from Little Dawn Village, only to be suddenly propped up as a sacred fla to legitimize so hockey-ass cult in the middle of nowhere.
Once this information reached the ears of the people of Little Dawn, they had attempted to try and steal it back, only to get nearly wiped out in the process.
The survivors of this failed assault realized that they were nowhere near strong enough to take it back by force, so they decided to retreat and empower themselves before getting to the point where they could take back their fla.
Unfortunately, in the process of getting to the point where they could steal back the fla, they had lost themselves to the concept of war, glory, and bloodshed.
They first defeated an enemy kingdom that tried to take them over, then they had to fight another, then another, then they fell into vicious in-fighting, until it all culminated in the formation of the Erupting Dawn Empire as people know it today.
At the sa ti, that hokey-ass cult had developed into a real religion that actually did good for the world and the people who lived in it.
In other words, while one side was originally a noble people who beca corrupt and greedy in the face of achieving ultimate power, the other was initially corrupt and greedy and beca noble over ti.
Sins of the past vs Sins of the present, as it were.
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"Who the fuck do i even support in this..."
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