The social and legal forms that developed during the supremacy of the Swords show us the many ways that the societies tried to check their tyranny. Listen to the list of examples: The matriarchies, receivership, the Inviolate Insignia, the Council of Physicians, the title of Wizard, the Imperial Ruling Councils, the Southern Satrapies, the Eastern Prefectures. We need not look far to see that the struggle against the Swords was deep, pervasive and lasting.—From a lecture by Keeping Track, historian and author of The Fall of the Swords.
The Fall of the SwordsThe worst successions aren"t even successions. They"re interregnums, periods between reigns when Empires are torn asunder in the struggle between rival claimants. Interregnum successions occur when an Emperor doesn"t appoint an Heir or
