Pavus Family/Orsino/YouAreHistory

You Are History

by Orsino d'Aquini Pavus

You are history, not good history, bad history. Look to the tyrants, the oppressors, the evil. This is what you could be, what you very likely would be. I was once in a land, Valentinois. It had an oppressive rule and ninety in a hundred men was an active oppressors and the last ten were the actively oppressed. There was no room for those in between, besides a small caste of people here and there. It was where I met my wife, Aurelia, and I observed the real tyranny. I saw her brother change from a man who thought he would stand in defence of children being slaughtered into the one that did it. The descent was dark, and he was physically sick while following orders at first. Nobody could fault him, else he and his family would be sent to death.

When one has seen the downfall of the ordinary man, who thinks as we do, how can the world he seen in the same way? Can it ever? Alternatively, in my experience, you see the world as better. Perhaps we do not live in a perfect world, of course we do not. But we cannot compare our life and society to a fantasy, only to what exist. We are at a point where we have established some fundamental essentials that every society should and must have. We finally have some fundamental assumptions correct. Lest they never be taken from us.

In reading history, many do see themselves as the victims. In Valentinois, the oppressed caste were of certain faiths or ideologies. Pagans could sympathise with such, but the followers of any mainstream religions? Most certainly the oppressors. Only when you do so can you understand history, politics, people and yourself.

In Luria Nova, there is an obsession with our rulers being good and benevolent and loved. But as soon as malevolence came, those touched by it were forced to understand. Namely those of Earth's Hall, who Suzerain Emperor Aldrakar Renodin the Wise had sought to kill. When rebellion inevitably came, then Imperial Constable Isabella Pavus led a one man rebellion on the capital with no unit. Through bureaucracy, a bloodless victory came, and so Suzerain Empress Isabella Pavus the Bloodless came to be. She ruled for but a day, until a third of the realm stood against her, protesting until she fought a duel to the death with soon-to-be Emperor Aylwin Gottfried, son of Aylwin.

As of writing, many wish to forget Empress Isabella the Bloodless. To feed her body to the dogs or to dismember it in festivals. Such actions are far more dangerous than they believe, than they could want to believe. More than they even have the capacity for. In coming years, I will seek and learn examples in the known world to write a follow up to this work.

You are history. Remember it or become it.