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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 9774901" data-attributes="member: 6802378">Barataria (Part 2).The relation between the Paragrafians and the Pedisequians is very complicated, like frienemies, because the Pedisequian faith derives from the Paragrafians, a radical evolution to be only a schim.The origin of the Paragrafian faith comes from a group of slaves, mainly gnomes, who were forced to work for the Fomorian lords in the Feywild. The ancestors of the Paragrafians not only could rebel to recover their freedom but also after this in the next centures they declared a saint war against the fomorians. The fomorian giants who survived are only a pale shadow of their past glory, but the world is better without them. But only a little number knows a second group of lord Fomorians survived the anathemas, the springans, criptopagan mutants created by the lord Formorians to work like spies and infiltrates among the gnomes. The springans funded a secret cult, the lodge of the ivory shrine.The elm is the sacred tree of the Paragrfian faith because ancient prophets told on the planted elm tree a vine will grow and bear good fruit.Centuries after the missionaries of Pedisequians appeared preaching the faith of the same Divine Providence than Paragrafian religion, but with a radical change of the old laws "because the believers now were ready for the new teachings and commandents". The sacred tree of the Pedisequians is the vine that grows on a sacred planted elm. In the last century there is more tolerance and respect between both faiths, boths pray the same Divine Providence, but there is a complete mutual trust, and the story of Susan Silverhand may reopen old injuries but this explains better the reason of previous conflicts.Susan belonged to an important and rich Paragrafian kapeloi (retail merchants) family, the Bronzefist house, who was promised in marriage against her will with Damian Goldfinder, a prestigous and powerful empori (international merchant, mainly by ship). Not only she didn't love him but because she didn't want to fight against other wives in the harem intriges for the inheritance of the children but he was a neopagan Ubermenschian who allegedly killed his first wife.Damian Goldfinder was not a good husband, and he was with other women. His first wife, a member of the Coperfield family, thought she could do the same, but she was wrong. To save the costs of the divorce and "to clean his honor" she was murderer. Everybody suspected him but there weren't proofs.How could our dear Susan to avoid so horrible fate? thanks mainly two people, one was Peter Silverhand, a Pedisequian knight and his childhood friend, (and later her future husband and father of her children, starting a dinasty of brave heroes and erudites) and Damian's sister (because without children then his inherance for her and her children).A couple of years later Damian Goldfilder was killed, supposedly a revenge of his in-laws. Really the killer was a third party (maybe a rival agent sent by the Ivory Shrine) to cause the war between both families. This would be know in the History books like the Ubermenschian scandal....The crew of the second space ship had to choose what empire to support with their advance technology, Paragrafians or Pedisequians, and the space explorer chose the latter. (To be continue in part 3).</blockquote>

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