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duskpeterson) wrote2025-08-13 04:52 pm
FIC: The Royal Sanctuary: The inscriptions (Tempestuous Tours)
On the walls of the sanctuary are inscribed the names of the Living Dead, which were taken from them at the time of their enslavement. These names were thankfully recorded by the priests who removed the names, so we still possess records of the thousands of men and women who were enslaved in this palace and usually died here shortly thereafter.
Not all of the names of the Living Dead are inscribed here. At the time of the rededication of this sanctuary, the Jackal met with the former Living Dead and their families to determine whether their names should be inscribed here, along with the names of the Living Dead from earlier generations. So strong a stigma continues in Koretia against being enslaved that the present generation of the former Living Dead - or their family members, where the former slaves could not speak for themselves - asked that their names not be inscribed here until after their bodies were dead. Their wishes were respected.
[Translator's note: The intersection between family and slavery can be seen in Light and Love.]
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