The Edict of Eradication
The Edict of Eradication was the Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. empire's formal decree of Ressor Cosmology The Two Moons Two moons attend Elshore: Liir, the near and swift one, and Ressor, the far and slow one. Day, the twentieth day of the Month of Life Event The Month of Life The Month of Life was a twenty-day pogrom against the Annil people of the Maan empire carried out in year 36 After the Chaos, escalating from state-authorised citizen safety pat..., year 36 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..., issued from Udhafa Place Udhafa The old capital of the Maan empire and one of the great inhabited ruins of the world, an ancient Iru-founded city in eastern Tarkdaara, carved into the bedrock below the Claw Pe... and described officially as a restoration of order and protection of life. It transformed the previous nineteen days of escalating street violence into state policy: systematic searches became extermination operations, the Annil People Annil Small, scaled, and easy to overlook, the Annil were the earliest of the engineered lines, made as household aides and keepers of the systems that kept the world running. underground was designated hostile territory, and Annil people were removed from imperial society by force and by the erasure of their records. The Edict's operational reality was visible in the breach of sealed rooms, the deaths of the Annil elder cohort who had maintained the hidden Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. chamber beneath the ISEMH 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..., and the permanent sealing of Bigtooth Character Bigtooth Bigtooth is a small, scaled Annil who keeps and guards the old workings of the great Udhafa ISEMH node, carrying out a duty assigned to him by his order with meticulous care and... into the duct system above the last surviving hibernation pod Technology Hibernation Pod Long-duration biological stasis vessels of Inarin-era engineering, built into the ISEMH and deployed across the Iru empire at the time of the Great Flight..
Key traits
- The Edict was issued formally on Ressor Day, the twentieth day of the Month of Life, year 36 After the Chaos, in Udhafa.
- The Empire's official framing described the decree as restoration of order and protection of life, converting twenty days of managed crowd violence into administrative law.
- Under the Edict, systematic searches were reclassified as extermination operations, giving the patrols legal cover for lethal action against Annil in service passages and underground zones.
- Record deletion accompanied physical removal, effectively erasing the Annil from the empire's official population registers.
- The Order of Randen Faction Order of Randen The fastest-growing power in the Maan empire at AC 50, the Order of Randen is a religious-political apparatus that co-opts the theology of Randenism and transforms it into a deb... claimed public credit for restoring stability on the Edict's day and immediately rebranded with a name captured from the Annil order it had helped destroy.
- The Annil elder cohort maintaining the hidden chamber beneath the ISEMH was killed during the Day 20 operations, leaving the chamber's sole remaining guardian sealed inside the duct system.