Old Accords
The Old Accords are a series of documents signed by most of the major demonic civilizations of the Near Umbra of Waking Materia. Though they outline a variety of other social and diplomatic mores between the various demonic provinces or city-states, the Accords are most famous for banning the enslavement of undead or dreaming souls sourced from the Waking World. It was traditionally common in most demonic societies to enslave such souls for sustenance or chattel labour, however a variety of factors eventually lead the major demonic powers to sign a moratorium, mainly:
- Occasional limitations of the "supply" of such souls, leading to often inconvenient and counterproductive resource battles between Umbral Provinces;
- Military pressure and lost battles against the armies of Overshepherd Rom and their Valkyries: elder gods of death's sanctity and stewards of lost souls (this in turn was exacerbated by a rising Rommite movement in several major demonic families
- Pushback from psychopomps and demon-hunters on the Waking side of the Veil, particularly the Waking Seraphites and Near-Umbral Pale Vigil of Oversepherd Rom, the Dreadnoughts of V'Shaat, the Baneslayers of Aios and a rising cult of The Skull Knight's Unwelcome Order.
Non-Signatories
Most important of the demonic city-states who reject the Old Accords is the colossal hive city of Dis, a tyrannical theocracy ruled by The CCXXVIX Supreme Pontifex, a calamitously powerful humanoid demon and former warlord who calls itself The Dust King. Originally known as Malbolg the Tribeless, it wrested power from the CCXXVIII Supreme Pontifex, Jovia of the Emerald Dream, and shortly thereafter pulled Dis out of the Accords. This has been met with a range of reactions, from the indifference of Kloster Storkenfels (who was already an abstainer) and Epitaph to outrage and boycotts from Orms-by-Gorr and Sarkoldu'un-Imathratep.
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