The Maan Council
The founding war council established in AC 1 by Rokhir Savil after the servant-race rebellion overthrew the Inarin Empire Faction The Inarin Empire The great predecessor civilisation of Elshore, built by the Iru across thousands of years and ended by the servant-race rebellion known as the Chaos.. Twenty members strong, it included seventeen Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age., one 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., one Erg, and one Bar People Bar Towering, massively built, and engineered for high-load work and vertical terrain, the Bar are the strength line. representative; the Meir People Meir The only people of Elshore not born of it. refused a seat. Its decrees, passed in the first seven years of the new age, resettled every non-Maan race and ordered the phase-out of all Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. technology. Dissolved in AC 7 when Rokhir Savil consolidated sole power, it is the institutional ancestor from which the Maan empire Place The Maan Empire By AC 364 the long Throne War has reshaped the north: the Maan Empire proper rules from Goldenhold under Emperor Theodelf Vissor, an absolute monarchy of order, debt and flame w...'s legal architecture directly descends.
Key traits
- Founded AC 1 by Rokhir Savil with a stated mission of restoring order and building a single-realm Maan-led polity across Northland Place Northland The northern continent of Elshore, called Northland in common speech, on which every chapter of the story so far unfolds..
- Voted to resettle the Iru to Iruel Place Iruel The island homeland of the Iru, the last sovereign Iru realm, ruled by King Thaare II from the twin capitals of Orelo and Ekree under the breath-law of the Ooliran Sovereign Bre..., the Bar to Baramma Place Baramma The great jungle island east of Tarkdaara, separated from the mainland by the Bram Sea and home to the Bar., the Erg to Rafadin Place Rafadin The island province promised to the Ergs by the AC 1 war council and now administered by the Iru of Iruel in name more than in justice., and the Annil to the Endless Desert Place The Endless Desert The great sand of Eldaara, the land to which the AC 1 war council ordered the Annil resettled, and along whose northern edge the Erg Tribal Confederation endures between sand an...; the Annil refused and left the council immediately.
- In AC 6 the council executed its Erg and Bar representatives after they protested a purge of non-Maan peoples from Northland.
- The Annil secretly preserved the hibernating last leaders of Inarin against the council's orders; the Order of the Protectors of the Grël was founded around this act.
- Dissolved in AC 7 when Rokhir Savil abolished it and ruled alone; power passed by coup in AC 27 to Timos of the House of the Sun.
- The catechism "What was built without permission must be unbuilt," still recited in AC 50 under imperial pressure, is the council's technology-phase-out ideology in its surviving form.