The Month of Life
The Month of Life was a twenty-day pogrom against the Annil People Annil Small, scaled, and easy to overlook, the Annil were the earliest of the engineered lines, made as household aides and keepers of the systems that kept the world running. people of the Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age. empire carried out in year 36 After the Chaos Event The Chaos The Chaos was a continent-wide civilisation-collapse spanning approximately ninety-eight years, beginning around year 1700 of the Inarin Calendar when the Iru Parliament of the..., escalating from state-authorised citizen safety patrols on the first day to coordinated extermination sweeps by the nineteenth. The ideological preparation stretched back years: forged documentation, a fabricated blood-contamination narrative, and the strategic amplification of a prominent Maan family's death from heart-fever fused a managed public rage into a usable crowd. The Order of Randen Faction Order of Randen The fastest-growing power in the Maan empire at AC 50, the Order of Randen is a religious-political apparatus that co-opts the theology of Randenism and transforms it into a deb... embedded operatives as patrol organisers from the first day, supplied target lists and entry points, and claimed public credit for restoring stability after the Edict of Eradication Event The Edict of Eradication The Edict of Eradication was the Maan empire's formal decree of Ressor Day, the twentieth day of the Month of Life, year 36 After the Chaos, issued from Udhafa and described off... formally closed the twentieth day. The pogrom drove the Annil permanently into the Udhafa Place Udhafa The old capital of the Maan empire and one of the great inhabited ruins of the world, an ancient Iru-founded city in eastern Tarkdaara, carved into the bedrock below the Claw Pe... underlevels and other sublevel zones across the empire, and the Order rebranded in the aftermath by capturing the Annil order's own protective name for an inverted hunting mission.
Key traits
- The Month of Life ran for twenty days in year 36 After the Chaos, progressing from state-authorised citizen patrols on the first day to open coordinated extermination operations by the nineteenth.
- The Order of Randen embedded as organisers and instructors from the first day, supplying lists, entry routes, and operational structure to the patrols.
- The sequence's ignition phrase, 'They spat on the dead', emerged on the sixteenth day from a confrontation near a funeral procession in Udhafa's central streets.
- Copycat violence spread beyond Udhafa into other imperial cities from the eighteenth day while the Empire formally condemned excess but broadened search authority.
- The Square of Life in Udhafa is named for the Month of Life's central commemorative procession, and the plaza stood in place fourteen years later.
- The Order of Randen rebranded after the pogrom by weaponising the original Annil protective order's own name, inverting its mission from concealment into a hunt.