"Many people think I wish to destroy the church. This is untrue of course. Religion is extremely important to many in the empire, and I have no desire to take it from them. What I intend to destroy is the grotesque power assumed by a small faction of bullies who have manipulated several obscure passages in the Enumis to justify torturing, murdering, and extorting their fellow human beings in the name of 'protecting our souls.' These men tell us what we are allowed to think at the point of a sword.
"I say that religion is a personal choice. I say that human beings are born with intelligence free will, and that the policing of our thoughts is a horrid insult to what we are. So long as we submit to authority the Nemesai have assumed over us, we are all slaves."
--Excerpt from A Modern Empire, by Cassian Asango
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Fantasy***SAMPLE FIRST THREE CHAPTERS*** It is an age of slavery, of ignorance, torture, and racism--yet within the darkness there is still great humanity. The vast Denigoth Empire has reached a time of relative peace. A conflict wages within its boarders...
