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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhialto" data-source="post: 2124864" data-attributes="member: 630">While Ralin Valeris, 'King' of Cassant is perhaps the most powerful of the various claiments to the throne of Aleasana, Dominus Majera Alsea of the City-State of Bandesh-Thar possesses the strongest claim and wields a might second to his.  Majera, a scion of the royal house of old Asani, and a direct line descendent of Majerus Alsea, conqueror of the land and first king of Aleasana, is as pure-blooded a Aleasani as ever you will find.  An imposingly tall woman, with pale blonde hair and sea-green eyes, Majera is commanding, well-spoken, and a masterful tactician.   However, one thing has kept her from supremacy--her radical politics.Majera is what is commonly called an "Oldblood".  She believes in the purging of Aleasana culture of "degenerate foreign influence" and "vile unholy magic".  A devout member of the church of Dar, she persecutes Dvergar, Shay, Half-Shay, Northeners, Bodai, and Juni as well as practioners of arcane magic, which she sees as pollution of the Asani way of life, and worshippers of foreign gods.  Especially persecuted are sorcerers, or as they are known in the Dominus's lands, "feybloods".  Every day, city-states that pledge loyalty to Majera typically execute about a dozen individuals for the crime of not fitting her definition of what is human.  Such individuals are usually tortured into confessing other crimes as well, from plotting to assassinate the Dominus, to poisoning wells.  Majera's loyal personal troops, the White Wolves, oversee many such executions, and are constantly investigating for further "infiltration".Ironically, for many years, Majera was the principal employer of the Black Fist Brotherhood--however, as her policies have grown more stringent and severe, they have left her banners.  The order's local head, Five Doves on the Wing, gave the Brotherhood's reasons as such--"The Way of Heaven is the Pillar of Earth--the Way of Earth is the Pillar of Heaven.  If both Ways are followed, stability is achieved, and all is well.  Loyalty to the just leader--is this not the Way of Heaven?  But if the leader follows not the Way of Heaven, the Earth grows unstable.  Confusion abounds.  If the Way of Earth is disordered, Heaven falters, and all begins to fail.  For that reason, we cannot support you."The loss of the Urukh's aid has Majera looking to the support of the twisted, degenerate Asani--a move she may eventually regret...</blockquote>

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