Ashrak Imperialist
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| "The Final Word"
I founded the Ashrak Imperialist back in the Winter of 17 YD as a means to engage the nobility of the Morek Empire with topics and arguments about the realm and the times they lived in. The journal was designed to be a polemic, which means it purposefully dealt with controversial issues and attempted, gleefully, to directly confront the beliefs and status quo of the readership. It was a “political rag,” as one detractor called it, and it was also a collection of articles on local interests. It was never a newspaper or a chronicling of events for the Morek Empire. I decided to take some time off from the Imperialist a few seasons ago for a number of reasons. First, my public life became more pressing as I became the Margrave of Nifelheim (and had to deal with all of the controversy over that). Second, because it started to occur to me that maybe, after all of this time, the Morekans have no interest in their realm outside of the fact that it provides them with a blanket to drape their titles in. This last point grew increasingly in me and I then shelved the Imperialist on hiatus. Consider what that realization means. I have lived in the Morek Empire for quite some time now. I have advanced myself from the very bottom of society, I mean very bottom, all the way up to holding a government title and receiving a city. Me, a noble who opposes the majority religion and who carries an infamous past, earned much in the Morek Empire. What does that say about the rest of the nobles in the Morek Empire? What does that tell me about the Souls of they who surround me? I spent a great deal of time earning my status in the Empire through honest contributing. I spent a great deal of time attempting to shape and improve the Empire in the ways I thought beneficial. And yet, outside of offering a blank rejection to progress by the few I term zealot theocrats, nobody did anything. No one does anything. The Ashrak Imperialist was a one way conversation. My polemic journal spoke to no one. The ears who received it shrugged it off. The ears whom it directly challenged never took the bait. So what good are you? The third and ultimate reason I am now ending the Ashrak Imperialist is because I have decided to join the Empire’s colony out of Flowrestown. All that I attempted for the Morek Empire may come to fruition in the new realm. This is an opportunity to take part in something new, something potentially glorious, and most of all something comprised of convicted nobles. They want to build a new society. They care about what it is about and how it operates. They, in the few seasons we have been planning the colony, have contributed more than any I have heard from the majority of nobles in the Morek Empire over the past few years. So my final word to the Morek Empire, and this is the essence of what the Ashrak Imperialist was all about, is that you can’t have a realm without nobles. You can’t be a noble without using your voice. And you can’t use your voice unless you have a community to speak to. Empire, invest in your community and you will see your realm bloom again. For the Throne, |
