In the year of the Swords, 9302, the Eastern Succession didn"t seem threatened. The Emperor Flying Arrow was young and virile. The record we have of his many consorts attests to his virility. His problem? He was sterile. History doesn"t tell us how he became sterile. The Emperor ruthlessly discouraged historians from recording the facts. Nonetheless, our language itself bears witness to his sterility. Sunk in the reign of this tyrant is the origin of the phrase “empty quiver,” which now means an “ineffectual person or act.” We have Flying Arrow to thank for enriching our language with this amusing phrase.—The Fall of the Swords, by Keeping Track.
The Fall of the SwordsCastle Security will examine the minds of all personnel before they serve a single day and test them thereafter on a perio
