CW: murder description in the blurred section
Does God have the key of this black sky?— Chelu Nieddu-Tazenda
The terrible
summer of 2006 will be one that will stay in the memory of the people of Onfalu for a long time. The nature seemed to conspire against the small nation, but it's clear that humans gave an helping hand to achieve such a level of destruction.
The sudden trigger of so many sparks in such a little time made everybody think about a central mind behind it.
Here follow the more accredited hypothesis:
It was the Janas/the istrias
Among the first to be blamed for it, there's been of course the
Janas and the other magical creatures.
Never mind that the wildfires caused even more damage to their homes and lifestyle than to everyone else's, there's always going to be a number of people in Onfalu that thinks that the creatures and their human allies are out to get them and are a challenge to the human ways of life with their only existance.
At least one of the 46 condemned for the initiation of the fires was a known
Istria found performing a rain ritual in the woods when the first sparks started to fly. Investigations subsequent to her hastly sentence showed that among the remains of the ritual there were no flammable parts or potential fuels. This didn't stop the conspirationists to attach her name as the mastermind of the disaster.
It was the Neo Romans
On the other hand there are the sympatizers of the
Janas and their similars, that think the NeoRomans set the island on fire only to destroy the hated creatures.
Though some of the members of the organization have been witnessed throwing impromptu parties when the news of
janas found dead in their
domus arrived, it is true that many of them had to throw the party on the streets because they were left without a home themselves.
It seems that if they were the mind behind the catastrophe, they miscalculated heavily the direction of the wind and what lied between the fire and the domus.
It was Turri/It was Casteddu
Onfalu might have been united for centuries now, but there's still someone that thinks that the most likely culprit of every evil is their neighbours.
The Turri and Casteddu rivalry is an ancient one and symptomatic of the worst defect of S'ards: envy. In this instance the ire of these people focused on thinking that the the other Juigadu set fire to the whole island just to procure damage to the others.
Both banners are accusing the others with the same amount of force and already some acts of "revenge" have been recorded by the hands of the more fanatic of each part.
It was the Continentals
This is the name S'ard in ancient times reserved to Romans, but now came to encompass any non S'ard with colonizing intents.
It is unclear who the Continentals are in this instance, but the conspirationists claim that some foreigner power was trying to destroy
Onfalu's island to be able to starve its government and convince it to sell large pieces of land at a small price for industrial purposes.
Out of all the conspiracy this is one of the less far fetched, as the tactic has been used before, but it lacks any proof and the identity of this misterious Foreign power is very vague.
If one thing is a constant throughout all of history, it's the blaming of the other when things go wrong. Of course the Janas and Istrias were the first ones to be blamed for the incident. That poor Istria who was just trying to make it rain. :( And of course, all the other groups that could be blamed for it are also blamed in some capacity. I think the headers would work better if they said 'it was' instead of 'it's been', just a small grammar note. :) Very interesting. I wonder what the truth is.
I wonder too...