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Protector of the Negeemi Republic

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Character  Danieh'le Dahl'ArakCharacter  Xuunera Lo'KeeCharacter  Maylara MaltreeLocation  Aiers

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Triumphal Entry by Shabazik

The Two Times Victor, Leg of the Spider General, member of the High Council, Keeper of the Web, Web-mistress and Protector of the Negeémi Republic smiled, as she entered in the large room, where her daughters -Rhea, Shi'Nill and Laeh'le- were waiting, along with Captain Xuunera Lo'Kee, and that spy of hers.

She had just arrived from her triumphal march across the city, where she marched in front of her army displaying the loot, prisoners and captured weapons and treasures of the war against the Hebonnor -and specially, that sexy piece of ass that was the King of the Hill, the king of the Hebonnor mountain Elves, Hildetriel IV the Young, she thought to herself-

But now, her march of the victory against the Hebonnor had finished... but it wasn't the last activity of the day, because there was now the celebration of her victory against the internal enemy, the conspirators of the High Sorceress Selene Paen'Dhirra and her goons.

Behind her, entered the King of the Hill, who seemed to be confused and out of place.

"I expect you enjoyed your triumph, mother" Shi'Nill said, as she had her arm in a sling. She was as well there with General's Dahl'Arak granddaughter, Dhaura, and her mate.

"It was wonderful" the General said. "But as our surface friend here would say, the day is not over" she added, pointing the Hebonnor. Often the drows laughed how the surface people, even in the underworld of Kazrrad, still accounted time by days and nights.

Now, it came a second celebration, for her triumph over her own internal enemies: it was however a smaller event, where only acolytes of Negeé, their families -and a couple of servants and slaves- would be present. Originally, she would have prefeered this sort of activity to be done in the Festivals Square in front of the Temple of Doom, but her engineers squads weren't able to clean the debris caused by the fighting, collapsing of buildings, trenches and barricades, so instead was picked for this Genai's Square.

There wouldn't be thought any chained enemy marching behind her this time: Seleen Paen'Dhirra and her conspirators where better deep in the dungeons, where no one may try anything until they face judgement. As well, it wouldn't be proper to drag behind some chained citizens, even if they are her enemies, or the commoners may get some ideas out of it, and while the sackings stopped and martial law was being enforced, they still needed to clam down the common masses.

Instead, she decided to march by the side of Captain Lo'Kee, as a recognition for her work within the city in preparations of her great political move... and that spy of Lo'Kee which name she is forgetting, dressed as a slave -the sex-slave that single-handely defeated Selene Paen'Dhirra. She didn't believed quite the story of her daughter Shi'Nill that Lo'Kee's spy did all the work, but indeed, the story worked. They didn't wanted Selene Paen'Dhirra, the woman who wanted to be queen, to be some sort of martyr to her cause, but instead to be mocked by her depravations. And what better than this-.

...And that surface drow was sulking in a corner. The General clapped her hands, calling for her attention. What was her name?

"Maylara" she said, presenting her to the King of the Hill. "King Hildetriel IV, Maylara. Maylara, your king... because you are surface drow, right? subject to the King of the Hill?"

May quickly remembered the old, half forgotten customs she learned in her village in the Nohalion mountains of Gigfran Nyth, for how to greet properly a noble, and she vowed.

"While the King is on the city, you will serve in a temporary way him as interpreter" Danieh'le Dahl'Arak said. "But for now, there is other the role you have to play.

Maylara looked nervously around, hearing the cheering of the crowd in Genai's Square.

"General... Why must I go in this?" she asked then, embarassed, as she was dressed in a slave's gargment.

"It's only proper" the General said. "People expect to see a slave that defeated the High Sorceress, so dress like a slave."

"But why not... well... not something else?"

"That's the uniform of the Slaves of the Temple of Doom. Be grateful you get to wear something, rather than I make you go around as one of the personal slaves of the bechamber of Paen'Dhirra"

"yes ma'am" said embarassed Maylara:

then, the curtains of the room opened, and they walked to the square: there, hundreds and thousands of drow cheered at the Protector of the Negeémi Republic.

The General closed the eyes, leaving herself drown in the cheering of the crowd.



THE DAHL'ARAK COUP

The coup of Dahl'Arak brought General Danieh'le Dahl'Arak to power as Keeper of the Web, Web-mistress and the Protector of the Negeémi Republic of Negeémiliel

The Coup d'etat was a self-coup, in which the ruling Senatorial Party, despite having come to power through legal means, in order to avoid a coup d'etat organized by the Populist Party, that had majority rule on the Low Council of the government of the Negeémi city state, dissolved and rendered powerless the national legislature, unlawfully assuming General Dahl'Arak extraordinary powers, not granted under normal circumstances, annulling the nation's constitution and suspending civil courts.

While the High Priestess remained in her position as Head of the Spider -head of government of Negeémiliel-, and General Dahl'Arak remained only as a Leg of the Spider -member of the Inner council of government- she actually became a dictator.

This occurred on the 25 to 31 October 2428 a.a.H, year 4868 under the Negeémi Calendar.

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

The Senatorials and Populist Factions

Since around the 1500 a.a.H, two main political parties rised in the southern drow city-state of Negeémiliel: the Senatorials and the Populists.

The senatorialis where a traditionalist group, that wanted to perpetuate the social structure of Negeémiel, meanwhile the populists seeked for reform of the system, such as expanding citizenship to even more Negeémi drow.

Between the 1500s to the 2072 a.a.H, the relations between both factions will be mostly polite -but as with drow politics, with  plots, conspiracies and machinations-, being alternated longer periods of government by the Senatorial party, along with brief governments of Populist charismatic leaders: however, being fewer in numbers, they couldn't achieve significative reforms, and when they intented to do so, the power returned in the elections to the Senatorials, being perpetuated the status quo.

However, this comfortable situation began to change since the 1700s after the defeat of the dual-alliance of Ched'Nasan and Ched'Hihrin that had for long contested the power of Negeémiliel, meant a significative expansion of the territories held by the city: for this began pressing the issue to control the larger empire, and more acolytes where needed, so there where reforms to extend citizenship even more, as intented by the populists.

This meant that slowly, the new acolytes that entered the system with populists affiliations -after their acolytal service- where to enter in politicis, slowly shifting the balance from a minority of the populists and senatorial mayority, to even political power:

It will become more difficult each time to reach agreements, as the discussions in the Low Council became longer and longer, and while the Populists and Senatorial alternated rule continued, began to be each time more frustrating for the populists how slowly reforms where done.

This will meant an escalation of tensions, until at the year 2072 a.a.H was done the Khalazza Coup, when the councilwoman Haelra Khalazza seized the power in a bloody coup d'etat, rising herself as dictator, banning the high and low council and pushing an agressive reformation program, which was really a revolution.

The absolute rule of Khalazza would be however short lived, as by the 2084 a.a.H a bloodless coup d'etat by her own officers, scared by the speed of the changes, took her out of the office, and for the 2084 to the 2120 ruled a military junta lead by the populist General Felyndiira Olonrae, who scaled down the reforms from her predecessor, but still keeping dictatorial powers for herself: at least until at the 2120 a.a.H Haelra Khalazza will return from exile in Erehel-Sinu with an army, forcing Olonrae in exile, and asuming again as dictator. While she was able to seize power thanks to Erehel-Sinu, and was expected to be a puppet of the foreign city, she quickly turned against Erehel-Sinu, beginning an agressive expansion program in the exterior and a revolution within Negeémiliel, keeping with an iron grip the city and repressing her political enemies.

After defeating Erehel-Sinu, she continued with an agressive policy toward the surface, fighting the Hebonnor, and underworld, against the Nortunk dwarves.

However, her agression campaigns will extenuate the Negeémi forces and Negeémiliel, and will be assessinated at the 2166 a.a.H by a group of close populist politicians. A brief period of anarchy would follow, while the three main populists generals fought each other for sucession, until the dicator Miz'ri Vrinn raised in power.

As her antecesor, an ambitious populist general, she was interested in consoldiating the conquests of Khalazza and expanding them into a Negeémi empire, over and under the surface of Aels, harboring the secret desire to become Queen of Negeémiliel. To achieve this goal, she reestablished the institutions of Negeémiliel and put on hold some of her predecesor more radical and hated reforms, to appease the Senatorials.

This granted Vrinn estability, and to realice her imperialistic dreams, she signed at the 2169 a.a.H a secret alliance pact with the Dark Legion, in which Negeémiliel alligned themselves along with the demon lords for the incomming war that the demon overlords prepared.

That's why during the First War of the Power (2203-2223 a.a.H), Negeémiliel will support the Dark Legion, sending expeditionary forces to reinforce the Dungeandar drow heterogeneous armies in northern Aels, and as well fighting in southern Aels along the forces of Satman against the Empire of Uslen, the Hebonnor and the dwarves of Nortunk. By the year 2207 a.a.H, when was thought only was matter of time the complete demon victory, Miz'ri Vrinn proclaimed herself as Queen of Negeémiliel.

But with the arrival of the forces of the venerable Empire of Whide Axis at the 2209 a.a.H, will change the tide of the war, lossing Negeémiliel forces during the Siege of Hortann, as Queen Vrinn tried send a relief force, ans she will finally be killed in the Battle of the Titanizk Mountains, where she was smithen by the Emperor of the Elves.

Her underage daughter Phaere Vrinn hadn't the power to claim sucession of her mother, and while some of her mother generals tried to held regency for her, at the 2221 a.a.H the Council of the Regents and Queen Phaere Vrinn where defenestrated, and Negeémiliel pulled out of the Dark Legion of Demons.

The monarchy was abolished, and the traditional institutions where reinstalled: With the military defeat, the populists lost much of their support, becoming once more time the Senatorials -after such long time- the hegemonic power.

The senatorials government where able to keep some of the territorial surface gains and most of their underworld territories, dedicating the Senatorials to consolidate their power.

But as the generations of acolytes that where raised under the rule of Khalazza and Queen Vrinn became adults, still holding dear many of their ideals, populists began to gain again some power.

The hegemony of the Senatorials will last from the 2221 to the 2350 a.a.H, governing the destiny of the city -thought not completely unchallenged, due the rise of the monarchists who tried to place in the throne Queen Phaere Vrinn, and some populist conspiracies beyond the accepted political game.

But with the further expansion of the Negeémi empire, as always more acolytes where needed, and once more time citizenship was extended to more drows, which reinforce the Populists bases.

But the further flowering of the Spidersilk trade will make a larger, wealthier class of Commoners by the 2300's, with aspirations of citizenship, which will began to put pressure into the system:

And so, by the 2350 a.a.H, once more time the Senatorial and Populist forces will be matched, and afterwards, the number of seats occupied in the Lower Council by the Populists will all but rise, reaching a populist sorceress the High Council at the 2380, and by the 2421 a.a.H, Selene Paen'Dhirra will become the High Sorceress of the Temple of Doom: the Populists controlled then the mayority of the Lower council and 3 seats of the High Council.

The Rise of the Cult of the Flower

The Cult of the Flower was the cult dedicated to the Goddess Jabharil in Negeémiliel. Jabharil was the matron goddess of the city of Kalhari. While the first recorded presence of Jabharil worshippers in Negeémiliel was at least as early as the 1800 a.a.H, it was only after the Third Sia'Peiran-Negeémi war (2405-2408 a.a.H), where Negeémiliel defeated Sia'Peiran and their vassals Kalhari and Ched'Ipango. After this war, Kalhari became under Negeémi rule, and with the influx of slaves -prisoners of war- that worshipped Jabharil, and the direct trade between Negeémiliel and Kalhari -with Kalhari traders founding the cult- it will quickly expand across the slaves and commoners of Negeémiliel.

This rising power was spotted within Negeémilile was spotted by the rich commoners that had interests in achieving citizenship, and some of these rich traders that had contacts with the populist party told them about the possibility of using them as a leveler.

The populist party saw this as an oportunity to force the hand to the Senatorial faction -to use the scare of a rising commoner-slave religion within Negeémiliel- to force them to form a cohalition government, and formed a secret alliance with the Cult of the Flower at the 2416.

With support from Kalhari traders, rich commoners and the Populist party in secret, the Cult of the Flower expanded like wildfire, and so the worship of Jabharil.

However, Selene Paen'Dhirra, an ambitious populist sorceress, one of the heads of the Populist Party and who had played a key role in the negotiations between the Cult of the Flower and the Populist party, saw it as a possibility to extend her own personal power, within her own party and in Negeémiliel: and as politician she suggested in secret to the Cult of the Flower to began to use some more agressive tactics, while she played in the lower council to avoid the ban on the Cult of the Flower, but making the senatorial party to try to use violence to solve the situation:

she played an escalation of violence that rose to street violence at the 2421 a.a.H, culminating with the assessination of the High Sorceress of the Temple of Doom Khariel Baener, which lead to the sucession of Selene Paen'Dhirra as High Sorceress in the Temple of Doom.

From this possition, she continued to play the card of the Cult of the Flower, making secret deals with them to strenght her situation within her own political party and Negeémiliel, procuring to the Cult of the Flower grain, while using the Hebonnor-Negeémi war to create food shortage, to make umpopular the Senatorial government, and give even more popularity and power to the Cult of the Flower.

To do this, she promised the Cult of the Flower free worship in Negeémiliel after a Populist regime ruled over Negeémiliel, giving Jabharil an official status, and compromised them in a conspiracy to do a coup d'etat against the Senatorials offering them the independence of Kalhari.

The Negeémi-Hebonnor War
The Negeémi-Hebonnor War was a war set within the context of the Drow-Hebonnor Wars: while tension between drows and mountain elves were contast for centuries, being antagonistic, the situation had worsened after the First War of the Power, as Negeémiliel conquered important footholds on the surface.

Hildetriel IV , a young Hebonnor king who wanted to rally support behind him and legitimize himself as a chief and warrior in front of the nobles after the suspicious death of his sister Brainne the Crazy , heir to the throne of the Mountain Elves, decided to realize a series of raids against drow outposts, as a demostration of strength.

However, what should have stayed just as another skirmish in the long history of drow-hebonnor agressions, became the casus bellum due to some internal political interests of Negeémiliel .

Due to the uproar caused by the Cult of the Flower, instigated by the machinations of Selene Paen'Dhirra, she manipulated the popular opinion of the city to convert this skirmish in a full out war: The Populist faction created a shortage of surface supplies from the city artificially, to weaken their oppositors and strengthen their alliances, as they held for themselves important parts of the crops of the surface, while blamming the Hebonnor Kingdom for the situation.

In this way, and having the majority of the Lower Council, they forced the hand to the Higher Council to enter in a full out war against the Hebonnor: as well, as further preparation of the war, they send the most important officers and forces of the Senatorial faction stationed in the capital to the war, to weaken their presence in preparation of a coup d'etat to overthrow the High Council and government of the Empire.

THE COUP
Events of the 25 to 30 October

  • Senatorial factions forces seize the House of the Parliament of Negeémiliel, the Temple of Doom and other key positions along the city, as the Academy of War, the University of Negeé, some of the city gates and the bridges over the Abyss of Doom. In the process, they capture key leaders of the Populist faction
  • High Sorceress and head of the Populist faction, Selene Paen'Dhirra, is defeated and captured.
  • The Senatorials prepare to defend the positions they assumed, barricading themselves as they waited for General Dahl'Arak's return.
  • the leaderless Populists try to organize themselves, and attack entrenched Senatorials
  • The Cult of the Flower gathers their forces, and try to support the populists. About 4.000 Fanatics and sentries of the Cult of the Flower are mobilized
  • near 20.000 to 30.000 slaves and commoners break havoc and began to sack in the now lawless city, as the acolytes fought each other
  • furious Populist and Cult of the Flower attacks
  • The advance of General Dahl'Arak, and some populists attempts to delay her advance to the city, blocking some tunnels
  • first relief forces of the senatorial faction arrive to the city
  • General Dahl'Arak, undercover, leads some attacks to clear entrance to the city

Events on the 31 October

  • General Danieh'le Dahl'Arak enters in the city of Negeémiliel
  • Populist faction remnant pockets of resistance and forces surrender
  • A martial law is declared, and the sackings are stopped


AFTERMATH



Commission for :iconanimal-delos: of the character Maylara Maltree, rogue and spellthief. Here, in the role of the "sex-slave that defeated the decadent High Sorceress Selene Paen'Dhirra single-handed", she have to take part of the festivities in honor of the Two Times Victorious General Dahl'Arak.

She is lucky thought, she is there with some slave clothes at least, and not in the transparent clothes -or nothing- the personal slaves of Paen'Dhirra often weared -or didn't wear-!

Captain Lo'Kee maybe is enjoying this too much.

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Oh my god I love your Drow girls so so much! I just love this picture too!