Some extracts from the Glorious Conflagration of Fida'Is (1)
"It is said that no-one is free, a revelation that was taught to Fonritans by God Learners as they ravaged our land and our mythology." - A quote from the Sister Philospher as she preached to the masses at Garguna.
It is noted that their are interesting differences between the Kareeshti and Afadjanni. It is interesting to note that both say the same thing about one another, each tells its slaves that the other is more harsh, wicked and tyranical than they are.
Slaves who flee their Afadjanni massarin have few places to go, to the west lies Umathela filled with man eating trees and white skinned devils, to the north lies th ocean, to the east lies Kareeshtu who will only make them slaves again and to the south is the Veldt which crawls with bandits and charngibbers. So the slaves remain at home happy and loyal and worship Ennug with a song.
The Shakh of Faladje is so obese that he has lost the use of his legs, he is carried about by twenty slaves upon a great jewelled palanquin (any less than twenty could not lift his weight). When the Shakh eats he has a magician dislocate his jaw and in this way his appetite can be satiated with whole platters of food. His table to is mighty and ostentatious, being five hundred feet in length and decorated with mother of pearl. All visitors to his palace must sit upon the western end of the table as he he sits in the east, to communicate messages are whispered by eunuch dressed in gold who must run up and down the table, leaping over dishes and goblets without spilling a drop. During the visit of the Ambassador of Hombori Tondo five table runners died of exhaustion as the debate reached its climax.
In the Glorious Year of One (500ST), Garangordos came to Fonrit. With him he brought culture, civilisation, might and the gods of the Torab. The truth of the gods was carried about in a great book called the Garan. Garangordos led his people to great things he renewed old traditions and effected ancient rites to make the blues our slaves for ever more. Great achievement causes great jealousy and Garangordos was slain by his brother, who burns in hell for ever. As Garangordos' body lay, still twitching it was dismembered by his seventeen brothers and sisters, they then dismembered the Garan and then finally the land. The pieces of Garangordos were placed within the Seventeen Canopic Jars of Seperation and hidden, the Garan was taken to the temples and the brothers and sisters guarded it jealously, the land was divided and could never be whole until Garangordos became one again. Od the Garan it is said that each sibling refeused to allow the others to see their section, but instead each tried to fill in the sections they did not have by memory. Some got it right, most got it wrong and confused with the myths of the land that they had conquered. Thus there are seventeen versions of the Garan and seventeen versions of Heaven.
The most powerful people in Afadjann ar the Jann himself, the High Priest of Darleester the Noose in Garguna, the Blue Eunuch of Barueli, the Jann's mother, the head of the secret police and the white skinned gardener of the palace. Red Ravaal the Jann of Kumanku, Ovgormangis the usurped prince, Energastor the Sister Philosoper and the Jann of Thieves in Sarro are all impressive but have little impact.
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