For more than two centuries, the Royal Printing Guild has stood as one of the Kingdom’s most trusted institutions — a fellowship of craftsmen whose skill gave form to faith, law, and learning. From royal decrees to school primers, from the hymnals of the parish to the journals of science, its presses have inked the nation’s conscience. Continue Reading
The Hall of Ministers seldom trembles. Built of old stone and older habit, it is a chamber that prefers the steady clack of quill on blotter to any sound resembling thunder. Yet thunder there was this week, as the Royal Assembly met to consider a question that touches every press and parish in the Realm: in the wake of Bianchovi’s crimes, who shall hold the reins of the printed word?Continue Reading
The echoes of the rope that ended Rodger “The Liar” Bianchovi’s life have scarcely faded from the Yard of Justice, yet their reverberation continues across the breadth of the realm. What began as a single man’s deceit has unfurled into a sprawling net of conspiracy, deceit, and foreign intrigue that now touches towns, trade guilds, and even the pressrooms of the capital itself.Continue Reading
The execution of Rodger “The Liar” Bianchovi, carried out at dawn on Seventhday in the Yard of Justice at Inverness Prison, brought to a close one of the most disgraceful chapters in the annals of treachery within the Realm. Yet even as the noose fell silent, the reverberations of his deceit continue to shake the very institutions he sought to defile.Continue Reading
Rodger “The Liar” Bianchovi, once the self-styled “chief editor” of the outlaw publication known as The Red Banner, will face the ultimate penalty before the dawn of Seventhday, following his conviction on multiple counts of sedition, falsification, and the willful spreading of disinformation calculated to undermine public order and faith in the Crown. The execution, to be carried out in the Yard of Justice within the walls of Inverness Prison, is expected to draw both solemn observers and a small crowd of the merely curious, though no public attendance is permitted.Continue Reading
The long-simmering dispute between the Kingdom of Eyehasseen and its tiresome neighbour Marelia has reached what government officials describe as “a state of polite aggravation.” Though neither side has issued a formal declaration of war, both have done nearly everything else customarily required to begin one.Continue Reading
Though the Kingdom of Eyehasseen has not formally declared war upon its western neighbour, Marelia, events above the frontier are beginning to resemble one. For the past fortnight, merchant sailors and coast-watchers alike have reported the ghostly silhouettes of dirigibles drifting through the dusk—our own banners glinting like brass halos in the dying light, and others, less familiar, lurking at the edge of cloud.Continue Reading
In a move that has left sceptics chuckling into their tea cups and bureaucrats polishing their monocles, the Royal Government has established the Climate Change Division, a cheeky new arm of the Bureau of Imaginary Problems, dedicated to countering the “preposterous notion” of man-made climate change.Continue Reading
In what officials hailed as “a bold step toward confronting challenges that may or may not exist,” the Royal Government this week formally inaugurated the Bureau of Imaginary Problems, a new agency tasked with investigating, documenting, and managing issues of a purely theoretical nature.Continue Reading
The sea has gone strangely quiet. For days now, fishermen along the Hartholm inlet have spoken in lowered voices of wreckage, searchlights, and the faint echo of engines under the waves. No formal declaration of war has been issued, but the sea appears to have declared one of its own.Continue Reading