Suns to Come

The South King said this: He comes against me, Sekever comes against me He is the one I cannot defeat, for he is not like me His secret is the one I cannot hold, for I would lose my kingdom He has the new flute song, he has the new dancing step I must make him like me, so I can see him Catch him in my burning eye, burn him in my catching eye I must make him drop his secret, I must make a Sekever of him - A fragment from the collected translations of the Seventh Chote Dakpa

Right now I’m only going to dig into the Guide. There’s more stuff, both back from antiquity and from other fanworks, but the Guide is now the place to start. First and foremost: the name has flopped between Chern Durel and Chen Durel for a while, but the Guide uses Chen, so that’s official. Chen Durel is treated as a province of Kralorela, and given 6 pages of its own. A third of the Notable People of Kralorela are Chen Dureli, and all of them are members of Can Shu’s clique. The gods of Chen Durel occasionally get mentioned elsewhere - the Gang of Four are part of Kralorela’s history, the Black Sun is described when talking about troll gods, and they all get play in the Hero Wars section. As a consequence of its placement, we should expect the writing to have a quietly pro-Kralori bias. The history of Kralorela is well rehearsed. Prior to any human life, there are ancient pyramids covered in hieroglyphs. There is in the Godtime the worship of a Sun God, who appe...