Following the events of the Selenese Civil War, the fox queen has called friar Victor back to his homeland. Something ominous has returned causing a deep fear that shattered the fox queen's pride.
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And after his address to his father and to the Selenese people, every opposing faction, although they never got along smoothly in Selenese society, finally came to an agreement on one thing. They all hated prince Darius who was calling himself king. And even the Elves who had become averse to conflict since the end of the Selenese civil war began to become bold once the Valkyries had vandalized their heritage.
And amongst the Elvish heritage that was vandalized was San Saerwen cathedral which in their own Elvish language was the name Saerwen for the Mother of God. The Valkyries had looted the cathedral and burned the fabrics to collect the gold and silver and other precious metals and had prostitutes perform sex rituals on the altar housing the relics of the greatest saints of the Elvish kingdom to desecrate them. For not even the Ver Tauc pagans when they once ruled the Selenese queendom committed such a sacrilege. And to add further insult to injury, prince Darius had all the statues and icons destroyed that had been there since the 1100s and had them replaced with statues and pictures of himself with all the crosses removed and replaced by the flag of the Valkyrie nation. And to top it off, prince Darius had San Saerwen cathedral remained to "the temple of reason".
And in the southern valleys of the Confederate People's Republic of South Selene lived the Nymphs, who had once lived a peaceful life farming agriculture and developing natural resources, had become enslaved to the Valkyrie regime. The Valkyries built upon the once beautiful meadows and farmland industrial factories to build their war machines as food production fell as the Nymphs began to starve. And for those the Valkyries deemed most beautiful, they were taken to be slaves or to be exotic concubines for their masters' pleasure. And knowing that the Nymphs had powerful nature magic closely linked to the health of the natural world around them, prince Darius strategically place his industrial centers in their natural home. For he knew that because of their bodies being so sensitive to the health of the natural world, he could make them too weak to fight back because no Valkyrie had any resistance to magic.
It seemed as though the only place that was not touched in neither the Confederacy of South Selene nor the Selenese Empire was the province of Amazonia, because the Valkyries deemed it too cold and useless to do anything with. But such is the nature of Amazonia, forgotten to eventually become the destroyer of those who refused to acknowledge it. And such was the case again. The diplomatic mission to the Tanuki Republic, Kitsune clan, and the Szolsura were a success. And through the Valkyries' neglect of Amazonia, the means to destroy them by Amazonia's icy waters had arrived. And from the Kitsune clan came the means for the Confederacy of South Selene to rebuilt Ironhenge, and with it, make the Valkyries' orbital supremacy utterly worthless.
*******Isis's Oversight
It appears Darius has fallen under the pride spell I placed on his defenseless heart. He is so pathetic that he couldn't even control himself over the simplest temptations. And he is doing so well bringing death and destruction into the Selenese world. After all, I'm going to need that powerful kingdom destroyed if I am to rule the world recreated in my own image. And I'd rather have someone else die in vain on my behalf as I reap the rewards for their labor. Valkyrie pride is so easy to exploit.
But by their pride I have some of the fuel for the most potent Dark magic. And through the Valkyrie's pride and bloodshed, I will increase in power. And with this increase in power, I will destroy the crippled Selenese kingdom so that they will never in the future threaten my reign. Now to exploit Darius even further while he's still useful and whispering sweet nothings into his ears.
-Isis's monologue to herself
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Gnosticism: With prince Darius speaking in a dichotomy of the fleshy ones and the reasonable ones, he is speaking in an inherently Gnostic matter and speaking of knowledge almost as if knowledge were a sort of god and the means of salvation. This is very similar to Gnosticism that believed in two different kinds of people, people of the flesh/body who were already damned and those of gnosis/knowledge who are destined for salvation through secret knowledge.
A Nod to the French Revolution: During the French Revolution that overthrew the French monarchy and devolved into a reign of terror, Notre Dame cathedral had important religious iconography destroyed and had prostitutes perform sex acts on the altar and renamed the cathedral to "the temple of reason".
