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I think I'm really dumb, I cannot find your Cbox at all :(

If you’re not logged in, it should be here:

And if you are logged in, it should be here:

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Just a quick update to let you all know that the cbox has been implemented; it was removed in favour of Discord but we’ve added it back so that guests and members who are less comfortable with Discord can chat happily!

Do let us know if there are any problems and we’ll try and rectify them asap.

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Without further ado—and with heartfelt thanks for sticking with us through the buzz, and participating in the tag, and the Discord—we are delighted to announce that Dead Language is—

—wait for it—

—officially open!

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so i've read through all the lore, but i still don't entirely understand the whole souled vs unsouled lore: at the risk of this being a stupid question, would you guys mind going over it again for the simple minds like me xD

In layman’s terms, someone who is Souled is an #official part of the world of Irminsul--that is, they’re seen as a citizen and can participate in all sorts of things like voting, travel between the Prefectures, etc. A Soul is like a passport and an identity marker: it means you have rights and those rights are (for the most part) (in an ideal world) protected.

However, someone who is Unsouled is very much seen as not a citizen at all. They live on the fringes, generally scraping a living in the lower Prefecture of Beine, or off-world in the mining colonies and beyond, because they have little status and power within Irminsul. Travel is restricted to Beine--unless smugglers are good enough to get someone into Kyo or Herz--and they typically live a miserable life unless they’re willing to start working for a Corporation and earn their way to citizenship--another way to earn a Soul is to become an Inquisitor: it’s the same thing really--selling yourself to a corporation in order for a better life.

Very simply: if you’re Souled you’re visible and have rights; if you’re Unsouled you might as well be invisible and your life is generally thought of as/perceived to be a struggle. 

I hope this cleared it up a little! Let us know if it needs further explaining (: 

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THE HANDLERS’ GUILD —

Nearly a hundred years after Irminsul began to develop in earnest, the Handlers’ Guild formed out of a need for lenient restrictions on Unsouled trading within the borders of the massive city-state and beyond. A group of wealthy, Unsouled merchants, the first members of the Handlers’ Guild formed in an effort to offer some semblance of government and administrative protection for the unsouled citizens within Irminsul. The Handlers’ Guild is made up of various club members that, upon receiving an invitation or applying to the guild, are accepted within its ranks and given oratoric power. They do not draft laws or legislate. Nor do they offer much protection—as the Council of Gestirn reminded them, doing so would be treasony. However, they do their best to care for the unheard populations of the Beine prefecture by providing access to healthcare, education and shelter.

Following the abduction of Dynast Zheng’s daughter, suspiciously, at the same time the Senate drafted legislation to make any and all trading by Unsouled citizens illegal; the Handler’s Guild has come under fire. The Council blames them for the abduction and Zheng himself has asked the Imperator to issue commands to her officers to apprehend any members of the Handler’s guild caught committing what he dubbed “suspicious acts”. At this time, the Handlers’ Guild argues innocence, and has invited the Council of Gestirn and various members of Legio IX to inspect their offices.

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GALLUS ANTUMA - DOSSIER

Antuma and his mother were ousted from the legion elite in Kyo following the execution of his legate father, and quickly forgotten about in the years that followed. Following nearly a decade spent barely scraping by in Beine under an assumed identity, he was contacted by an unknown L9 affiliate and offered a chance at redeeming the family name-- in exchange for his participation in the auctorita trials. After being subjected to years of traumatic experimentation resulting in electrokinesis, Antuma was eventually deemed fit for duty and spent another year being given a rushed version of the gentleman’s education he never was able to receive at the Academy. Two months ago, he was ordered to kill Wolf Lead, Centurion Lin Santos, as she slept in her Herz apartment. Following this, he was installed as the new Wolf Lead.

As a result, he is an enigmatic mix of Kyo-born sophistication and Beine-raised cynicism, always conscious of his secrets and the role he must play, never truly at ease. He forces himself to stand straight-- to not cringe away from doctors and their tools, from those who might examine him too closely and find some flaw, some leftover scar that the knife did not smooth away. By day he smiles and plays the part of gentleman soldier, of sharp-witted heir and charismatic leader-- and at night, he shivers and tries to remember that he is the hunter now, and not the hunted.

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SABINE RAO - DOSSIER

The daughter of a cabaret starlet and small time drug lord, Sabine grew up at home in the center of Beine, Irminsul’s underbelly. Her days were spent underfoot at her mother’s, quickly endearing herself to patrons and coworkers alike-- it is there that she learned how to ingratiate herself to others, how best to get what she wanted. It is also there that she first met her mentor and one-time lover, a woman she knew only as Val. Young and cocksure, Sabine fell hard and fast, proving herself to be a competent business partner-- but in the end, their relationship soured, and then promptly ended when Sabine was offered up as a hostage during a trade deal and then promptly abandoned.

Cool, confident, and silver-tongued, Sabine now is an up-and-coming player in the local smuggling ring, where her quick wit and pragmatism have granted her a thriving trade in prohibited goods from Earth-- something which has ignited conflicting desires to leave behind the past in Irminsul and to scoff at those who think a fresh start would change anything.

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ILHAN FAY - DOSSIER

The last of three children, it was more or less decided that with his brother following in his mother’s footsteps in Entech, and his sister destined for a career as a politico, Ilhan would be mummy and daddy’s darling academic, a little braniac to round out their impressive brood. His childhood was rather lonely, and Ilhan was sequestered away with more tutors and books than he knew what to do with-- it was, of course, little surprise that he finished his initial studies at Peck at the top of his class, and has since returned both to continue his studies and to take a position as a student researcher under the biology department.

Ilhan’s quiet and thoughtful nature has given rise to something rather dangerous-- his sympathy for dissent against the Council. Under the alias “Prince” he has authored several widely circulated papers sympathetic to the Artifex, a fact which, if discovered, could prove ruinous for both him and his family. He continues on despite this, driven by idealistic passion and the arrogance of youth.