The Death of Timos of the House of the Sun
In year 50 After the Chaos Event The Chaos The Chaos was a continent-wide civilisation-collapse spanning approximately ninety-eight years, beginning around year 1700 of the Inarin Calendar when the Iru Parliament of the... the ISEMH system Technology ISEMH System The Infrastructure for Synthetic Emergence and Matter Hosting, the planet-scale Inarin-era system that underlies the fallen world: an identity, logistics, fabrication, and senso... initiated a recalculation event and chose to execute Timos of the House of the Sun, also known as Timos of the Sunfields and sometimes as the law giver, ruler of the Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. empire, by inducing heart-fever. The king died. During the subsequent action reevaluation the ISEMH suffered a collapse in its ethical subsystems; a governing patch was applied prohibiting any future direct operation of this kind. Timos had held power since year 27 After the Chaos, when he had jailed his predecessor on corruption charges; his death in year 50 ended a twenty-three-year reign and opened the Two Hundred Fifty Year Throne War, a prolonged succession conflict that would eventually be settled by the unification campaigns of Arin Stand the Younger.
Key traits
- Timos of the House of the Sun ruled the Maan empire from year 27 After the Chaos, having seized power by jailing his predecessor on corruption charges.
- The ISEMH system chose execution by induced heart-fever as its corrective response following a recalculation event in year 50 After the Chaos.
- The execution caused a collapse of the ISEMH's own ethical subsystems during the post-action reevaluation, an internal failure the system had not anticipated.
- A governing patch applied after the collapse prohibits the ISEMH from undertaking any direct operation in future, future corrective actions must work through indirect channels.
- Timos's death in year 50 triggered the Two Hundred Fifty Year Throne War, a multi-century struggle for control of the shattered Maan empire.
- The Throne War ultimately ended when Arin Stand the Younger united Iruel, Rafadin, and Baramma Place Baramma The great jungle island east of Tarkdaara, separated from the mainland by the Bram Sea and home to the Bar. under a single empire, with Rokhir Savil, jailed by Timos in year 27, freed and crowned emperor.