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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Edena_of_Neith" data-source="post: 82741" data-attributes="member: 2020">Slowly and very painfully, order is restored across the Flanaess.  Almost entirely at gunpoint, or swordpoint.  With the civilian governments in collapse, and a greater number of the officials dead or in hiding, military takeover is necessary in almost every country as a prerequisite to restoring any order at all.  A grim military rule is established in the Empire of Iuz, as per John Brown's statement.  I must assume that strict military rule, less dark than John Brown's but strict nevertheless, is established in the Kevellond League, Baklunish Confederation, Orcreich, the Alliance of the Crescent, the Kingdom of Keoland, the Pomarj, and the Sky-Sea League.  In the Alliance of the Sunrise, less draconian measures are necessary, for the elves are immune to the disease.  In the Coalition of Light and Shadow, the faerie - immune to the disease - become the actual day to day rulers, and I am assuming they are much more gentle towards their panicked populations, being inherently good as they are.  The plague never hit the Solistarim or the drow and their allies, so their societies are unchanged - although I'm sure this was an eye-opener for even them.  The Lortmil Technomancy remains under civilian rule, alone among the nations around it, for the plague was halted before it got a hold in their country.  The military cordon around the Lortmil Technomancy is now as solid and unbreakable as a Summoning Circle designed to protect against Fiends.  In the Dark Union, and in the Tilvanot Peninsula among the Scarlet Brotherhood, there is a vast sigh of relief that somehow the plague missed them.  This is generally attributed to the God Emperor.  It is said that the God Emperor himself kept the plague at bay, and saved his people.  As a direct result, churches to the God Emperor start sprouting up like weeds from the Bone March to Medegia, and the faithful flock in droves to pray to their benign savior.  Their loyalty to him is now fanatic.  Anyone in the Dark Union who so much as even speaks an ill word about the God Emperor, or denies his divinity, is set upon.  Despite everything the God Emperor can do to stop the situation, his overly euthusiastic followers burn and destroy hundreds of churches of other faiths across the Dark Union, and kill those they consider infidels and traitors.  When the God Emperor sends his army to stop this, his followers stop, but the followers of the other religions got the message, and most of them pick up and flee the Dark Union, or flee into the havens of Adri Forest and the Grandwood.  The Lost Elves, alone, do not worship the God Emperor, nor are they much affected by what is going on around them.  All this worship and adoration is sufficient.  Congratulations, Serpenteye.  Your character is now a Demipower.  His PL increases to 5, as Divinity becomes his.  Few ever considered that it was Acererak, sending the antidote out via his Minions in secret, who saved the Dark Union and the Tilvanot Peninsula from the dark fate bequeathed to everyone else.  Few in the Dark Union even conceive that Acererak could have been involved at all.  Among the Scarlet Brotherhood, most guess the truth.  Among the nations being hit by the plague, the truth is all too painfully obvious, even if the details of the truth are not known.</blockquote>

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