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Before the Auspicious Occasion, King Noah imprisoned several thousand Mishalanese communists. Where are they now? Still imprisoned? If so, on what grounds?

Many Froyalaners turned into community servants after the Auspicious Occasion, having been found guilty of various crimes. But some remain loyal subjects, denizens, and even citizens. How is this reconciled with the government's intentions of making the Froyalaners an indentured race? Do citizen Froyalanish men have their balls cut off, too?

How do we even know if someone is a Froyalaner?

Why is there no government in Lywall?

The imperial law on marriage makes it illegal for people to contract gay marriage unless (1) the marriage was solemnized in a protectorate or state or foreign country (with which Shireroth has a full-faith-and-credit treaty), and subsequently legitimized by court order in Shireroth, (2) the parties are both nobles and have received imperial consent for a gay marriage. Which states or protectorates in Shireroth currently allow for gay marriage?
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Armin Jamal-Arminzadeh wrote:Before the Auspicious Occasion, King Noah imprisoned several thousand Mishalanese communists. Where are they now? Still imprisoned? If so, on what grounds?
After 1650, a vast influx of political prisoners and other undesirables saw the Dragonsfold Gaol expand to the dimensions of a prisoner of war or concentration camp. Privileged prisoners continued to be held within the confines of the old palace complex whilst those less fortunate were incarcerated within the external barbed wire enclosures and set to work building their own barrack huts.

14,312 members of the Mishalanese Communist Party nomenklatura were detained in the year 1650 under the Organization of the Union Act 1640 (Chapter 4, Section 6: Additional Powers) for activities "contrary to the values of Societal Harmony and the pluralism and liberty that is the common right of all mankind and the best reflection of the Grace of the Divinity of the Lady Elwynn Herself".

Their present whereabouts is unknown.

We have details concerning the whereabouts of three individuals:

  1. Kirov, Nikolai. Arrested by Elwynnese authorities and incarcerated at Dragonsfold Gaol (1650). Held for psychiatric evaluation (1651).
  2. Rykov, Fyodor. Arrested by Elwynnese authorities and incarcerated at Dragonsfold Gaol (1650). Held for psychiatric evaluation (1651).
  3. Volkova, Aleksandra. Arrested by Elwynnese authorities and incarcerated at Dragonsfold Gaol (1650). Transferred to Imperial Custody (1651), released and appointed Chairwoman of the Provisional Government of Mishalan and its Vicereine.


Many Froyalaners turned into community servants after the Auspicious Occasion, having been found guilty of various crimes. But some remain loyal subjects, denizens, and even citizens. How is this reconciled with the government's intentions of making the Froyalaners an indentured race? Do citizen Froyalanish men have their balls cut off, too?
You must name these individuals so that they may be dealt with appropriately in a manner consistent with Imperial Law. We are aware of the individual who self-mutilated and remains in the suite of the King of Goldshire under a special dispensation.

How do we even know if someone is a Froyalaner?
The Panopticon maintains a database for the Chamber of the Crypteia which incorporates immigration data. DNA testing can be used to identify certain genetic markers. The rumours concerning the existence of Froyalaners with two hearts and the capacity to spontaneously regrow severed appendages, let us say, has been thoroughly disproved by physicians and anatomists attached to the Konkordskaya Bratva. Anonymous denunciations have also been a useful tool, although due diligence has been required to ensure that Norse, Cimmerians, Amokolians and Elw, have not been caught up in the dragnet.

Why is there no government in Lywall?
There is government in Lywall, a High Commissioner has been appointed and local government is proceeding satisfactorily.

The imperial law on marriage makes it illegal for people to contract gay marriage unless (1) the marriage was solemnized in a protectorate or state or foreign country (with which Shireroth has a full-faith-and-credit treaty), and subsequently legitimized by court order in Shireroth, (2) the parties are both nobles and have received imperial consent for a gay marriage. Which states or protectorates in Shireroth currently allow for gay marriage?
Vanic Elwynn was the only State to have specific ordinances concerning Marriage. Those were revoked after the Auspicious Occasion. In all regards therefore the regulation of marriage is determined by Imperial Law.

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I thank the Minister for her responses.

I am however thorougly astonished that she has lost 14 000 prisoners. How can this happen in a society where the ever-watchful eye is upon us all. I demand a thorough investigation! They are there, we shall find them, and they shall be clothed and fed, and receive full rehabilitation!
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Armin Jamal-Arminzadeh wrote:I thank the Minister for her responses.

I am however thorougly astonished that she has lost 14 000 prisoners. How can this happen in a society where the ever-watchful eye is upon us all. I demand a thorough investigation! They are there, we shall find them, and they shall be clothed and fed, and receive full rehabilitation!
You will appreciate that conditions in the north of Elwynn were somewhat disordered during the period in question, and while Eliria was captured within a couple of days, it took up to a fortnight for Imperial agents to arrive and establish order in the northern and eastern portions of Elwynn. Now during that time the Elwynnese communities themselves, joined by deserters from the UDF and the Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels, took a hand in solving the Froyalanish question at a local level, which may have added to the impression of generalised disorder in that portion of Agnesia. In the midst of all this, conditions at Dragonsfold began to deteriorate, especially as recalcitrant Vanic clergy and their more militant adherents began to arrive at the site for their temporary protective custody.

We shall make enquiries with the relevant local authorities, although it should be regretfully noted that the record keeping of the State Law & Order Restoration Council for the Elwynnese Union during those months was not all that it could have been.

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The Office of the Steward wishes to issue a clarification. The Froyalanish People are not being turned into an indentured race. The vast majority of them were found guilty of crimes and put into Community Servant status.

They are currently being relocated to centralized work settlements that will provide comfortable habitation while they fulfill the requirements of their sentence. Many have already indicated that their new accommodations are superior to their previous state and that it will allow them to become rehabilitated in the fullness of time.

This is also being done to protect them from the general population, who wish to do harm to the Froyalanish People as a form of vigilante justice for their crimes.

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Perhaps we ought to look forward rather than backward. The future is ahead of us, that is where we will find progress, happiness, order, and good government. We will not find any of that in the past. Let the past remain in the past. Let us all look ahead.
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I am appalled!

The Steward comes here and says that there is no design to make the Froyalanish an indentured race, that the minority of them who have not engaged in any crimes are free to live as they wish, that they are protected by hate crimes, and whatever. Yet, there is an imperial design to eunuchize Froyalanish men, to deny them their human rights of bodily integrity, of sexuality, and freedom. It is an affront to all human dignity. Such handsome men turned into mere shadows of their former selves.

At the same time, the Minister of Military Affairs says that there is only one exception to the community servant rule. Who is right? The Minister or the Minister's boss, the Steward?

The Auspicious Occasion ought never to have occurred! But we can still make rights right. We can make amends. We can release the Froyalaners from their captivity, we can allow them free passage to Stormark, we can let their boys keep their balls, we can grant independence to the FNR as reparation.

We have committed a grave injustice to this people. We should all be ashamed of ourselves.
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That which is written is written.

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Ladies and gentlemen,

The Count of Suthergold is feeling overwrought, having seemingly forgotten his attendance at the Kaiser's birthday celebrations down in Montrano. He may have wandered out of the room for the signing of the edict but he was certainly present for the cake.

I suggest that we give the Count a round of applause for attending this little function this evening. It is so good of him to have found the time to attend and to remind us all of how much he cares.

*gestures to the waiters to escort the Count to one of the side rooms for an aspirin and some mineral water...*

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At this juncture it may be worth expounding upon the Kalgachi experience of the Froyalanish Question, namely that the country has met with some success in rehabilitating its Froyalanish subjects with most restrictions upon their liberty removed except those of reproduction and religious affiliation. In most cases the simple expedient of eradicating the memetic contagion of the Vanic creed, in tandem with the provision of tolerable working conditions and some measure of social dignity, has allowed the Kalgachi Froyalanish the time and means to more fully reflect upon their historical defilement by the greasy hands of their erstwhile Storish overlords and renounce, often entirely of their own volition, any affinity to that dark chapter of their history. In turn this has granted them the cultural headroom to establish a new corpus of customs, traditions and shared experience which, over time, has transmuted them into an entirely new and benign social class quite divorced from the existential threat to civilisation that they once represented. In most parts of Kalgachia the Froyalaner can now expect to enjoy a basic degree of social respectability, sometimes even prestige.

Tragically, alas, this can be little more than a palliative reward for their efforts. The regime of sterilisation must remain, for the historical taint of the Vanic elite - having been spread in the most torrentially seminal manner through their erstwhile subjects - has left its immutable mark on a genetic level to which the only practical countermeasure is the eradication of the entire Froyalanish race, quite apart from individual acts of redemptive penance by its more commendable descendants. In this manner the relentless ejaculations of the Storish ruling class have effectively condemned an entire people to extinction regardless of their innocence, and it is to that baubled class of mead-quaffing tumescents that any anger about the present situation must ultimately be directed.
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