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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sanglorian" data-source="post: 6256687" data-attributes="member: 83822">Sosaria the Brave (48.18)The civic anthem of Sosaria, Sosaria the Brave, is remarkable both for its contents and the response that it provokes from Sosarians.The anthem was lifted from Alexandrine, to the extent that it still refers to Sosaria’s ‘industry renowned and manufacture cunning’, does not mention cattle at all, and at one point rhymes ‘city serene’ with ‘Sosaria’. The reaction wherever the anthem is played is mixed. The mostly-immigrant elite leap to their feet in their traditional kashik robes, and assume the daggith stance of absolute submission. The poor, mostly of old Sosarian stock, grumble, laugh or ignore the song.The song, the kashik robes and the daggith stance are products of the Rediscovery, a Sosarian renaissance that occurred two decades ago when Sosaria justified its independence from the Bergolasti Reformation by arguing that Sosaria had a unique cultural heritage, much of which they proceeded to make up or appropriate from the customs and folkways of Sosaria’s poor, who mostly did consider themselves Bergolasti and wanted to participate in the Reformation. These days the conflict plays itself out in feast halls, theatres and operas across the city, where first or second generation Sosarians perform ‘millennium-old’ Sosarian cattle chants while families that go back to the days of Bergolast attend the latest play from Shuttered.Hooks<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tell us more about the Reformation. Does it survive today? Did it have much success? Who participated?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Was all the Rediscovery made up? Or was there some truth to it?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What sort of plays are being performed in Shuttered?</li> </ul>Thring v Jack Donne (29.14)This case making its way through Shuttered’s courts has been brought by a pretender to the throne of the Duchy of Thring against the Collector - given a default name here since his own is famously unknown.Shuttered, as the only seat of a god in the Shrouded Lands, claims universal jurisdiction, an assertion not supported by its neighbours.‘Duke’ Grant Birl, one of the last surviving of that Witch Clan, was apparently once secretly married to the Duke’s wife. Since the husbands of heiresses rule, this would make him the rightful Duke of Thring.But it is not with the Duke that Birl has quarrel - in fact, he is broadly supportive of the man that he affectionately calls ‘The Usurper’. It is the collector that Grant Birl despises. According to Birl, the Collector stole most of his vast collection of Tarrasque skulls from collections around Thring, ‘unlawfully, unreasonably and without due cause frustrating, harming and causing additional material expense in the search for, hunting of and apprehension and/or slaying of the Questing Beast, a.k.a. The Tarrasque, worshipped in some parts as “Grahakzahak” (hereafter, the “Beast”, c.f. Appendix III sub. sec. A1 through B5, “Description and material analysis of the Beast”)’. Birl wants the Collector apprehended and the skulls returned.Hooks<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Are the findings of the court enforced in any way?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Is the allegation true? Does it matter?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Does the Collector care?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Who else can sue and be sued under Shuttered’s universal jurisdiction?</li> </ul>---All added to the wiki.</blockquote>

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