English

That is - still is! - the main problem for all of us, and will stay that way for a long time to come. Wars that happened or happened not, treaties broken by one side or the other or not at all. Kings exiled, emperors dying in bed - Kings who never went away and emperors who fell in war. Personal stories of keeping peace or going to battle, of enemies and friends, of a life lived (often for a long time, even since before the temple wars). This is the situation which separates us all, which makes Atys a modern Babel - much more than the language. References to the past will fail, always fail. Yet to rewrite the past will kill our toons, will kill us. We have to find a way to avoid these references, without making the past undone. The biggest, much deadly problem to the National Assemblies - and moreso if they once take over from the regional ones completely - is the reference to the past, which will always split the three servers immediately. We have to take our positions for granted without questioning them, and mainly without referring to them, for those in politics - in politics for a long time - must have known each other before, mustn't they? If we don't manage to ship around that reef, we'll burst on its shelves in three pieces, and all go down unceremonially.