First approach - What plagues our Settlers
What plagues a civilisation is something swiftly defined and obvious. It criples the state and scours the People. To our Settlers it is an obstacle of note. Diseases and famines and war were the greater concerns said to plague the
Old World. To a lesser extent, the Beasts of these lands could end a man's life, but those were isolated incidents much as a slip from heights. Indeed, the various Humanities had risen above the petty animals and ruled over the fate of all life within their territory, expanding this influence further still. But on our Second Sphere, things are not so similar.
Monstrous Beasts, for indeed their Old World counterparts were tamer and less cruel, are undeniably the Primary Threat to our Settlers. Their existence is a terrible one, of unending Hunger and uncaring attitude to their own preservation. Swarms and powerful fiends have rendered entire Villages worth of people to shreds, though the vigilance of modern countries has diminished these Tragedies occurring. With each year passing, an equal amount of Settlers seem to fall against the Beasts as does the amount of Settlers born of their Mothers. And against such stagnation, only walled Polis stand a chance as we discuss in our Second Approach.
Then come the diseases, all are theoretically easily dealt with should the realm have knowledge extracted from
Sent sages or from a distant point in the
Old World's time. For many in the Old World fell prey to just such diseases and had the best incentives not to repeat their mistakes. Our doctors study from afar and hold what is called hygiene as paramount. However,
Dysentery, Measles and the new horrors of names in the making may still take their tolls. While more erratic in their reaping, the Sickness competes closely with the Fiends at culling the Settlers.
Following the Diseases close by are all deaths connected to Childbirth. The event affects each Race sporadically, where Diseases and Beasts are unbothered. We the Demons, whose females are have no issue giving birth whenever they please, and who manage long periods without complaint, have curses and blessings in regards to our young. There are difficulties in impregnating. Of the difficulties, which my Rival Archan demonstrates amply, his wife labouring in vain to give him an heir as lacking in Body as he is lacking in his Wits, there are too few solutions to be found. I aim at a Dialog with my esteemed colleagues to determine measures, drastic though they may be, to help three Pushes; to help push our young out of their mothers, to push our males in the embrace of females, to push fertility onto our Settlers.
War is not as destructive as the monsters can be, with monsters forcing the battles of adversaries between years and not when it pleases them to slaughter each other. Still, to perish in Combat was a fairly normal occurence in the
Old World and we of the scholaristic pursuits do not doubt that, when our Civilisations expand more, war between us or between civilisations will rage again for whatever reason. The threat of sorceries and strange abilities, be they demonic or human, brings the forms of Death established in our Fifth Approach. To remain on the side of politics, we see each day the Polis growing and the Trade wriggling like a snake through the grass of the Steppes. Frustrations are sure to follow their Wake. And as those Sent from the Before have amply told us, not even Weath is to change the nature of Man, so too does it fail to change the nature of War.
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