The last light in Sahrland has burned out.
The King’s casket began to proceed from the Palas Dugthælina toward Cathedral Clæynæslu on a converted gun carriage for an IRM-381, propelled by his favourite capal, a beautiful white steed named Madenyurek. Immediately following the gun carriage were his children Kara and Reydi Lavro, followed by them more distant members of the royal family, and followed behind them the members of the King’s household. Two-hundred and fourty musicians played Men tyrgun dalga esitem as was done 64 years ago after the death of his father Miden II.
Everyone who was someone was in attendance. Ascensionists, Koknars, Labourists, Nælfonds, Strechists, Oibris— Parliaminas who hurled the most heinous curses on eachother weeks prior attended side by side. From the rowdy streets of Klensagrad to the sequestered homesteads of Balaoigir people came to see their royal sovereign for the last time.
Once they reached the cathedral its bell rang 86 times, once for every year in his life. Then the service continued in earnest.
Kirbo Lavro leaves behind a long and complex legacy. Before even reaching adulthood, in 2136 he inherited a state founded by a nomadic invasion, pushed to the edge of collapse by that conflict, always on the brink of an all out race-war between the invaders and the indigenous. By the third year of this reign the 2139 military coup overthrew him for their own gain, keeping him as a puppet leader in a ploy for legitimacy. He did not sit idly as they steered the nation to ruin, instead studying all the latest happenings and philosophies in the world, acquiring loyal followers and preparing for the time to strike, coming in 2144 with the Sahren Civil War. He personally led the palace guard to defect and seize the capital Dugthail, allying with the Republican cause in order to unify the nation. He then led 60,000 men in Operation Tetraethyllead, seizing retaking the port city of Klensagrad in eleven days of brutal fighting. After the war as the newly reinstated King of the Sahrlands, he participated in the greater Republicanism Movement, which saw the mass destruction of existing institutions and the construction of new ones, resulting in the reorganisation of wealth, law, nationality, language, sciences, arts, trade, and the resolution of Chevspendic-Egercian ethnic conflict. He oversaw the end of the Phoenian-Sahren terror war, and the reformation of Greater Aontas. Political and economic crises were avoided in the hardships from the 2160s onward in part due to his mediation.
In war he saw death and destruction untold by his people until that point. Through war his greatest flaws were amplified. Through adamant march toward peace, his greatest virtues became fortunate. What others accomplish through war, Kirbo accomplished peacefully, expanding the nation’s population threefold and its territory sevenfold. Now his spirit ascends, taking with it the last lived memories of his era.
Our small crosses will stand
On the bright edge of the road together,
And rain fall, and snow fall,
And the winds come and go.
