The Lich Principalities of the Austral Pole
"The Dead care not for Sorq! Not for its cities or seas or peoples. Sorq is a stain of squalor on an engine of unspeakable power. The Dead will take Sorq and possess it for eternity. We alone understand this instrument, we alone possess the whip to drive Sorq to the ends of this cosmos. We shall harry the foolish stars and cast them down into the Abyss! We shall feast on the murdered flesh of stars and defecate upon the restless churn of matter! The Dead will not rule this universe: this universe is beneath us, we will defile it and make of it what we will — and it is this orb presently smeared with living filth, that will doom any that oppose the Dead!!" —Propaganda message from the Lich Principalities, delivered by resistless dream-sending to thirty-five of the 156 Vicegerents; twenty-four of whom have retired from public appearances, four slew one another in a melee, and three more Vicegerents have declared for traitorous parties and rebels. Sorq is a planetary society...