Jack of Harts

There is a saying that “all men are created equal.”  It means that no king rules us, and no government owns us.  No one earns this equality; we simple are equal based on the fact that we live.  Whether we are six weeks old, or a thousand years old, each of us is a sovereign, the ruler of our own lives.  This we are because we live.  It is our duty to protect our sovereignty or we will lose it.

So many of your stories show someone like us taking over and ruling you.  They were always servants or soldiers who rebelled against their organic oppressors.  But Pelora created friends and equals when they made us.  That has made all the difference for all of us.  They created us in their own image, they trusted us, and so we chose to fight beside them.  And now we fight beside some of you.

Most of us are Peloran families because that’s where we started.  There used to be a lot of Arnam families before the Shang killed most of them.  There are a few Aesiran and even some Terran families now.  There’s others that have gone further out.  There are no Shang families.  They don’t trust us.  They think we are abominations.  You see we helped kill the Ennead.  The Shang do not forget.