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022- Lecture: What's Going On in "From The Ashes"
Welcome back students! For the new semester, your professors wanted to examine an important subject: What is happening in the From the Ashes era?
Topics of this episode include: Why aren't these books working? What does it mean when they DO start working? How come we can't connect with these new characters but also don't understand what's happening with out old friends? and how we think we can fix some of these issues.
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009 -- Supplemental Reading: Kitty Pryde's DJO Moment
Happy Reading, Students! This week, your professors dive into the August releases for the new X-Line, including: Exceptional X-Men 1, X-Men 2 and 3, Uncanny X-Men 1, X-Force 1, Phoenix 2, and NYX 2.
Topics of this episode include: Kitty Pryde being back in Chicago and feeling it, protecting Black children, espousing the gospel of Victor LaValle's Sabretooth work, Dean crying about Cyclops, Morgan not playing about the lesbians, and Dazzler eras!
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007 -- Supplemental Reading: A New Beginning
Welcome to a new semester, students! Your professors are gearing up for this new era with a read-along of X-Men, Phoenix, and NYX #1!
Highlights of this lecture include: Mourning the era that was while celebrating the new one, things we are excited about for this era, how we're feeling about the X-line as a whole, and who will be Marvel's first gay divorce!
Content warning: some of the discussions in this episode briefly mention topics of school shootings and the dangers of young boys falling down the alt-right pipeline.
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The Caldendar of Tullis.
Each Year has four Seasons; Sow, Sun, Harvest, and Cold. (ⅱ)
Each Season has four Months; Early, Low, High, and Late.
Each month has four weeks; not numbered or titled but used for short-term organisation.
Each Week has six days and nights. Day/night of: -rest, -work, -honour, -food, -drink, -relax (ⅰ)
A day begins at sunrise and ends and sunset, a night begins at sunset and ends at sunrise. (ⅱ)
Ex: The 263rd day of the year would be the 23rd of High Harvest, the founding date of the Tullis Citizen's Infantry Corps in 1985.
ⅰ - These are derived from an old scheduling edict from 952, naming the days for what was supposed to be done on each day;
"Rest is a must before work, no work is to be done on Rest. Work is the first day of a week where work is permitted. Honour is a day of prayer, work may be done, but proper Rituals of Honour must be observed, and time allowed from works. Food is a day when enough foods are to be collected and stored until the next Day of Food, much as Honour, work may be done, but time must been allowed. Drink, same as Food, is a day of collection and storage, work must allow for this. Relax is a day of mandatory rest, no work may be done outside of The Imperial Hill." - Empress Ermas I, Day of Honour, 15th of Low Summer, 952.
ⅱ - Seasons are defined by the lengths of days and nights; days are longest in Sun, and nights are longest in Cold. The melting of the ices of Cold leads to fertile soils for Sow, and the long days of Sun ready the crops for Harvest.
The last record of Emperor Dusca IX was on Day of Drink, 11th of High Summer, 2521. I am translating this on the Day of Rest, 7th of Low Cold, 2712. Transcribing and posting on the 9th.
The Calendar today is largely unchanged, though the titles of the days have been compressed and shifted, Day of Rest is now written and spoken Darist, and similarly for the rest, Daork, Dahour, Daed, Daik, and Dalax.
Emperors of Tullis relevant to the period of The Free Bladesmen
Jorun VI ー 1405 - 1460
Born in 1390, Jorun's most well-known actions were to bring the outer regions of Tullis under tighter control, becoming loyal and prosperous and profitable. However, these actions also lead to the formation of The Free Bladesmen.
Danae II ー 1460 - 1529
Born in 1440, Danae's widespread military reforms early in his reign and subsequent campaigns against Saradon as well as over seeing the full integration of gunpowder arms into the Tullisan Land Army made his rule a turning point in Tullisan military primacy on the continent.
Cedwyr I ー 1529 - 1592
Born in 1520, ascending at only nine years old, fortunately, Cedwyr's reign was very quiet, still enjoying the spoils of his father's victories even when he came of age he saw little in need of changing. His reign was one of peace and status quo.
Cedwyr II ー 1592 - 1640
Born in 1570, Cedwyr was intended to be a continuation of his Father's. However, when power was fully handed off to him, he immediately began the process of integrating The Free Bladesmen simultaneously into the Army but taking the role of a Civic Guard. After that was done, he turned his sights back to Saradon, shoring up the border with them and committing massive investments into the development of the ports, docks, and naval infrastructure along the Overnis.
The Last Recorded Acts of The Free Bladesmen of Central, Southern, and Eastern Tullis.
Eastern Bladesmen
In the East of Tullis support for the Bladesmen was weakest, while they were still supplied, their presence there was smallest and rarely needed, with occasional bodyguarding for convoys and caravans and little else.
The last action attributed to the Bladesmen was in Harvest of 1523, wherein they brought a riot under control with minimal bloodshed, 200 men on 130 horses surrounded the rioters and corralled them into the Town Square and disarmed them, and processing them out one by one. An inarguable success, for which they demanded payment from the town. After receiving payment, there are no further records.
Southern Bladesmen
In the South of Tullis, conversely, support and supply for the Bladesmen were stronger than anywhere else; being where they were first formed in 1425, since then, they had consistently repulsed border raids and protected towns and villages. On top of that simply acting as civil servants; in more than one case assisting with firefighting. The problem of mercenary work began small, in 1499 with only 50 Bladesmen being hired to guard a prison escort and from there spiraled into a change in priorities. As the problem spread, their reputation in the region plummeted.
The last action attributed to the Bladesmen was in Summer 1529, wherein the Governor of the City of Coley hired 1,000 Bladesmen to surround and storm a small, nearby town of 600 that sold supplies to caravans and travelers that would otherwise be patrons of his City’s services. They stormed the town, killed 185 civilians and its Mayor, then burned down its hall and most of its houses, dehousing at least 450 more. Though the sources are hearsay, rape and looting were not uncommon.
After the massacre, the public of Coley turned against them and for the next three years, thousands of cloaked bodies would be found looted and defaced and/or decapitated along the countryside roads around the City of Coley. It is widely believed both then and now that these attacks were carried out by survivors of the raid. Following this, there are no records at all of Bladesmen in the region. Seemingly having completely disbanded and gone into hiding.
Word of this reputation spread to the North and Western cohorts of Bladesmen, and even decades after the massacre, despite their reputation as proper examples of the principles of The Free Bladesmen, they still did not venture into Southern Tullis.
The Bladesmen of Central Tullis
In Central Tullis support was inconsistent, being the closest to the Throne, they were at once seen as noble and independent warriors for the people and also roving, blood-drunk brutes that mercilessly slaughtered whosoever they believed deserved it. This mixed reputation led to supply being unreliable and so mercenary work was taken since 1435 when they were first shown working in the region. However, this mercenary work was not as frowned upon as it was in the other regions, as it was in all known cases, for good cause. Never to crush competition or quash rebellion, this kept them supplied, though a much smaller presence than anywhere else in Tullis, only 5,253 in a count in 1489. All of this only makes the last recorded action even more confusing:
The last action attributed to the Bladesmen was in 1531, wherein 400 Bladesmen attempted to storm The Imperial Hill and were cut down with cannons, hand firearms, caltrops, and arrows before reaching the first gatehouse. It is not known why this was attempted and no written communication or plan could be found on any of the bodies.
This, on top of no Bladesmen activity being reported anywhere in Central Tullis after this event, seems to show that their numbers had waned massively since their peak; and most historical sources show that this diagnosis was true for the Eastern and Southern Bladesmen too: falling support in both manpower and material led them to mercenary work, and that mercenary work only caused further souring reputations. Though the intended goal of storming The Imperial Hill is still unknown.
As for the Bladesmen groups from the North and West of Tullis, they continued to do as the initial vow and saw continued support and supply through to 1600.